Example sentences of "[pron] [vb base] not been [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | I 'ave n't been back to Tyler 's 'ard from that day to this — I could n't bear to . |
2 | Then she said , quietly , ‘ Yes , although I have n't been here for a long time . |
3 | I have n't been here for years , although the land belongs to me . |
4 | ‘ I have n't been here for very long . |
5 | I have n't been here for ages and ages ! |
6 | When it , and the Government can produce fifty pieces of legislation affecting local government since nineteen seventy nine , I have n't been here since nineteen seventy nine thankfully , so I have to analyze everything , but they always landed our the ma the major ones and , so for example erm , it was the Local government Unit that produced the initial response of the Poll Tax , what strategy the Council should adopt er , the Council wo n't distance approach , we wanted to make it clear that the Poll Tax was a Government erm , it was a Government initiative and it was being forcedly on us and that was the way , did that effect it , that was a guided and then there was the nineteen eight nine local Government Housing Act , which I 'm sure many of you . |
7 | Nothing else has changed ; I have n't been here since that day a week after Clare died , and it had the same muddily washed-out look about it then . |
8 | ‘ I have n't been up for a while , ’ her father said , implying a total absence of mind , and some of body , too . |
9 | I do n't know I have n't been up for years . |
10 | So , concentrate on this and I 'm , I 'm , must get round to , I 'm sorry my life has been in turmoil because of the , the dog situation , Jean and I have n't been up to the West End , but erm , I , I know which book I want , I want to get you , erm , and yes , I want you to do this , so and this actually it 's very good , very difficult , good , do a bit of technic . |
11 | Fucking alright , I have n't been up to the today , I 've spent most of it sat fucking here . |
12 | But I have n't been up to cla Clarendon Road for some time now . |
13 | ‘ I have n't been up in winter but I was on the south-west face in 1972 when we finally gave up our attempt in mid-November , and we were only getting a taste of the conditions they will face . |
14 | Cos you know she usually do if I have n't been round for a while she 'll say oh what 's the matter , have I done something wrong or why you have n't been round or Perhaps she thinks well it 's too far to come . |
15 | ‘ Why do n't you tell me about it ? — Sorry I have n't been around for the last couple of days . |
16 | ‘ I have n't been home since Easter , ’ she said . |
17 | ‘ I have n't been down to the sea yet . |
18 | Adam said , ‘ I have n't been down to the cottage in an age . |
19 | I have n't been there for oh I 'm always going down there for petrol now . |
20 | I have n't been there for over a , a year or more I think last time I was there |
21 | I mean , there could I mean I think the House of Commons is now some way past in in my life in the sense I have n't been there since er June . |
22 | I have n't been back to the island . |
23 | been out , I have n't been out since New Year 's Eve . |
24 | No I have n't been out since Boxing night ! |
25 | I have n't been out to the park in a couple of months and that visit was strictly business . |
26 | I have n't been out of the house . ’ |
27 | You can tell I have n't been out in the garden lately I need , it needs to ci , it 's been too cold ! |
28 | So on that basis maybe Havstock Park would be a better venue cos there would be rooms adjacent I , I should imagine , I have n't been in to Havstock Park . |
29 | For some years now I have not been much in society . |
30 | And though I have not been there at the right season for many years , for all I know they live there still — a small , brown , undemonstrative little butterfly , not immediately noticed by an untrained eye . |