Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] not [be] on [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's been hell shut up in that cottage with two women who would both have braved the weather to come up here to see how you were if I had n't been on hand to stop them . ’ |
| 2 | She experienced changeable moods and panic attacks — she had n't been on holiday for 20 years and could n't even go out to dinner for fear of not being able to get away . |
| 3 | Harwood 's tale of brotherly love too , by its nature , changes into a different gear in its second half after an opening act in which the Manx brothers ‘ we have not been on speakies for ten years ’ look poised for a reconciliation . |
| 4 | They would n't have put that on if they had n't been on drugs ! |
| 5 | Probably they had n't been on stage more than half a dozen times before they were put under this microscope . |
| 6 | too but this one , he has n't been on nights . |
| 7 | Current refinements , no doubt with Christmas present buying in mind , include boxed sets of three or more related cassettes from Warners — for example , all three of James Dean 's movies for £29.95 , or for the same price , Marilyn Monroe in The Prince and the Showgirl , The Misfits and ( a bit of a scoop , since it has not been on video before ) Some Like It Hot . |
| 8 | He had not been on duty on the afternoon of the shooting or responsible for any of the aftermath investigations . |
| 9 | Those Simpsons , for instance , who knew the Foinmen no better than they knew Stonehenge , Dadda who bragged he had n't been on Vangmoor these twenty years . |
| 10 | If he had n't been on duty he would have been there . |