Example sentences of "but [pron] [vb past] [not/n't] been [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was quite aware of my childish misdemeanours , but I had n't been to confession since I returned from Egypt , and I thought he would be profoundly shocked by what I should have to tell him . |
| 2 | But he had n't been at the PCC because of recovering , still , from the flu . |
| 3 | Peter was a poor salesman , but he had n't been at DPR quite long enough yet to get sacked . |
| 4 | It was n't far from where he lived , just a stop further on the tube , but he 'd not been to the area before . |
| 5 | It was easy now to write to Vincent about his father 's visit in a flippant , amusing way , but it had n't been like that at all . |
| 6 | But it had n't been like that . |