Example sentences of "[verb] n't been [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is often said , for example , that the Indonesian island of Bali is ruined and that it has n't been worth going to since the 1930s , but to walk through a Balinese night breathing the warm silk of tropical air accompanied by the croaking of frogs and the distant gongs and gamelan music of a temple celebration is a magical experience . |
| 2 | The life he 's leaving really has n't been worth living . ’ |
| 3 | Well , just generally , we have n't restricted recruiting of care staff , in other words , unless we know there 's a decision been made about a residential establishment which there has n't been at present . |
| 4 | I do n't know , she has n't been at school . |
| 5 | She has n't been with me very long and she did n't understand the position . |
| 6 | 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 |
| 7 | She has n't been for a long time . |
| 8 | It was her idea to come here each summer , but she has n't been for three years now . |
| 9 | There is never a month that I am not overseas , and has n't been for many years — long before I achieved my present position . |
| 10 | It has n't been for three years . " |
| 11 | ‘ He 's not married , has n't been for a long time . |
| 12 | Yes , but he has n't been for ages has he ? |
| 13 | Has n't been for a few years . |
| 14 | And I think her husband will probably die before she will but erm he cos he 's older than she is even , but erm and he 's not very well , has n't been for a long time . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | And I should n't wonder if Potter has n't been on his knees peering through the railings . ’ |
| 17 | The sarcophagus , they told me , is not one of the Museum 's more interesting possessions , and has n't been on display since 1904 . |
| 18 | Dropping anchor and manoeuvring into the quayside puts a good dinghy sailor who has n't been on a small cruiser before under considerable strain . |
| 19 | Denis , who has n't been on stage for decades , has n't a nerve in his body . |
| 20 | 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 |
| 21 | too but this one , he has n't been on nights . |
| 22 | The Philharmonie has n't been without its critics . |
| 23 | And although the path from Harlequins coach to Geoff Cooke 's right-hand man has n't been without its problems , there has been a sort of inevitability about his gradual promotion to the national squad . |
| 24 | She has n't been outside the refuge properly for two weeks . |
| 25 | ‘ He has n't been to the baths for months . ’ |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | ‘ Who has n't been to school this term ? ’ asked Sam . |
| 28 | Rainbow has n't been to Goldie 's house in years . |
| 29 | ‘ But … he has n't been to the cottage to see Anna . ’ |
| 30 | To anyone who has n't been to , taught at or scrounged off , a modern university , the prospect of tracking somebody down with basically only a name to go on must sound daunting . |