Example sentences of "[vb past] [not/n't] been [adv prt] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the builders of this artificial paradise had not been around for several millennia — as Alex Bannen seemed to think — how come the flora and fauna had n't run riot and completely ruined the environment ? |
| 2 | Because of my knee cartilage operation , I started the 1990–91 season having done no downhill training at all during the autumn , a situation which I had not been in since 1980 . |
| 3 | you know , it is just so frustrating , you know and er some of these kids he said and the language they use , one girl came in , she had n't been in for three or four days , he had n't met her and he said hello you must be such and such er |
| 4 | Had n't been out since this morning . |
| 5 | They had n't been out for any days since Adam had been at home . |