Example sentences of "[vb past] not been on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nathan had not been on enough flights to be anything but excited , and he was going north of the Arctic Circle for the first time . |
| 2 | Horowitz drove back to Freiburg in a philosophical mood — the registration number of Tweed 's Mercedes had not been on the list . |
| 3 | He had not been on duty on the afternoon of the shooting or responsible for any of the aftermath investigations . |
| 4 | He explained that although the lad had not been on the mainline before , he was a good , reliable and sensible lad . |
| 5 | Downing Street sought to explain the decision by saying that it had not been on his diary anyway . |
| 6 | He told the magistrates the licence was for a car which had not been on the road for nine months . |
| 7 | ‘ He was a devoted husband and had not been on holidays for two years , ’ said Liam . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Probably they had n't been on stage more than half a dozen times before they were put under this microscope . |
| 10 | ‘ My parents and I had n't been on good terms for some time . |
| 11 | She experienced changeable moods and panic attacks — she had n't been on holiday for 20 years and could n't even go out to dinner for fear of not being able to get away . |
| 12 | I had n't been on a ferry for years . |
| 13 | They would n't have put that on if they had n't been on drugs ! |
| 14 | Those Simpsons , for instance , who knew the Foinmen no better than they knew Stonehenge , Dadda who bragged he had n't been on Vangmoor these twenty years . |
| 15 | And when I arrived I wouldn't 've been surprised if my name had n't been on the list but it was there . |
| 16 | If he had n't been on duty he would have been there . |
| 17 | I had n't been on the open market for so long . |
| 18 | Her thoughts had n't been on the task in hand . |
| 19 | It 's been hell shut up in that cottage with two women who would both have braved the weather to come up here to see how you were if I had n't been on hand to stop them . ’ |
| 20 | David had n't been on duty at the factory that afternoon and Rachel had wondered if he would suggest picking her up from her flat and taking her to the hospital , but he had n't , and his failure to do so only emphasised the coolness that was rapidly growing between them . |
| 21 | ‘ He was a devoted husband and had n't been on holiday for two years , ’ said son Liam , of Oundle , Northants . |