Example sentences of "he had not [been] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He ate and drank simply and , although he enjoyed the theatre , he had not been to a play for twenty years . |
| 2 | One after the other was called to report why he had not been to the police court for a long period , and threatened that if he did not do more work in the future he would lose pay . |
| 3 | In fact , he had not been in the room when they were taken . |
| 4 | He had not been in the forest since Boz 's wedding . |
| 5 | ‘ You were scavenging ? ’ he enquired , as though he had not been in the least surprised to find her rummaging waist-deep through a multifarious pile of flotsam and jetsam . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | But he had n't been at the PCC because of recovering , still , from the flu . |
| 8 | He had n't been to the Martins ' for lunch since Antoinette died . |
| 9 | He had n't been in the shop since the day after Rachel had died . |
| 10 | He had n't been in the lodge since Helena Naulls had left it on the death of her husband . |