Example sentences of "have n't [be] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That 's right , it 's different for different people over there , I mean Mark over there who has n't been with the company very long erm , I mean , my existing calls I mean I , I know them sort of to , to drink with more or less you know , but |
| 2 | Enzo , the Jove of the motor-racing world , who may get all the statistics and results and data from the circuit but has n't been on the inside of modern racing on the track since prehistoric days , announces to the world that Lauda is n't taking care of his car , he neglects his work , he 's got himself married and buggers off home and more of the same . |
| 3 | to get up to the thirty five mile an hour you got ta go through all the five gears so you 're forever pa going like that erm and that made it worse so that last fortnight she has n't been on the bike and that last weekend when she went out she went because we was busy , she got her bike out and she went up to work one or two of her mates and then come home she said she 'd wished she had n't of gone up |
| 4 | She has n't been outside the refuge properly for two weeks . |
| 5 | ‘ I did n't know ; he has n't been to the factory since I 've been here . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ But … he has n't been to the cottage to see Anna . ’ |
| 7 | Antony has n't been to the dentist for about six years ! |
| 8 | But Gere , 41 , who has n't been to the shop on Sunset Strip , LA , since the ban , can send his model wife Cindy Crawford , to run his errands . |
| 9 | If this is true she has n't been near the place — at least , not since Bill and I have been here . ’ |
| 10 | I mean he has n't been in the shop once this week . |
| 11 | I had n't been to the dump for a while , and it was about time I went to see what the good folk of Porteneil had thrown out . |
| 12 | If it had n't been for the help from her children she could n't have managed it . |
| 13 | ‘ Of course , he 'd never have made it if it had n't been for the skill of our local doctor ’ |
| 14 | It had been skinned , neatly eviscerated , and would have looked like any carcase in a butcher 's shop if it had n't been for the head . |
| 15 | Despite his personal trauma , his professionalism would never have been in question — if it had n't been for the drink and drugs . |
| 16 | If it had n't been for the Yeti , I 'd never have met Malcolm McLaren or Johnie Rotten . |
| 17 | If it had n't been for the case , I think perhaps … ’ |
| 18 | None of it would have happened if it had n't been for the dog . |
| 19 | Behind his scowling manner was a kindly old man and if it had n't been for the arrival of a rather insipid little boy , she might never have known , nor might anyone else for that matter . |
| 20 | If it had n't been for the war , they 'd have retired him , but it was like everything else these days , all hands to the pumps . |
| 21 | ‘ You 'd never have known , if it had n't been for the tissue-typing , ’ Celia pointed out . |
| 22 | He spoke honestly , but more harshly than he would have done if it had n't been for the pain he carried . |
| 23 | If it had n't been for the proximity of the tall dour houses and the unexpected kindness of a young girl , Craig would have been recaptured at once . |
| 24 | If it had n't been for the colonel letting me have this cottage for a peppercorn rent , God knows where I 'd be . ’ |
| 25 | This may have been no shattering revelation for any man to make if it had n't been for the fact that in the hot steamy summer of ‘ 89 Lowe got himself laid by two girls in Atlanta , Georgia . |
| 26 | I do n't think I would have made quite so much impact , however , if it had n't been for the fact that , while they were carrying me round the church yelling , ‘ Aliens ! ’ 'Jesus Christ ! ’ and ‘ The snake cometh ! ’ the roof fell in . |
| 27 | He really was the most annoying , irritating man she had ever met , and if it had n't been for the fact that she knew he would carry out his threat and have her sacked she would have refused point-blank to go tonight . |
| 28 | If it had n't been for the fact that her stomach chose that precise moment to rumble loudly she might still have argued . |
| 29 | If it had n't been for the breastplate of blood , he could have been asleep , legs stuck out , head slumped forward , his woollen cap slipped over his right eye . |
| 30 | I know for sure if he had n't been on the scene and it was only Colonel Vaughan and myself , I would most likely have said . |