Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] n't [been] for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I used to be , but I have n't been for a long while I used to we ca n't say that I was there last year but |
| 2 | I was just gon na say , some sometimes , I have n't been for a bit mind you , oh , well the last time I went , sometimes I go to Wales to Blaenau Ffestiniog or to congregation |
| 3 | She has n't been for a long time . |
| 4 | She said she had n't been for a while and erm then she said they did n't really know , they wondered how she was gon na get on in the water . |
| 5 | That 'll be nice cos we have n't been for a bit have we ? |
| 6 | what your look , same with your letter forage , I think mostly we were taught letter formation , which we have n't been for a few years now |
| 7 | they have n't been for a long time them two so they 're cast off , well they must of been they 've had to join |
| 8 | This month David Savage discusses the importance of mistakes within the workshop , and looks at a finish he would otherwise not now use if it had n't been for a disaster |
| 9 | The Flying Scot would probably have made the move before now — if it had n't been for a pact Laughton made when he left Widnes sixteen months ago . |
| 10 | Fortune having smiled on them , and I mean if it had n't been for a lump of expanded foam out of one of the life boats that had blown up at , if it had n't come floating past me , I mean I would have been a goner as well , but I got hold of that . |