Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] not [be] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | And when I , I mean when I , I actu actually felt quite emotional cos I 'd not been to Park to see a match for a long time and I mean we 're living up here erm , and er , I just felt quite emotional when I got out and saw that lovely pitch it was in perfect |
| 2 | I pointed out that I had not been to the polytechnic , but had been to Durham University on a scholarship — only the second the force had been awarded . |
| 3 | I had not been to such a party since before Leslie went to North Africa , and talking to Ika and his friends on a balcony canopied by a starry sky , I felt a spurt of pleasure , quickly followed by a surge of guilt : Leslie was dead , and I was alive , and capable of enjoying some temporary diversion . |
| 4 | I had not been to London for over twenty years , and my daughters had never been there . |
| 5 | ‘ I 've not been to the new grounds at Walsall and Scunthorpe , Maidstone 's ground , or covered a League match at Barnet . |
| 6 | I 've not been to London in twelve years . ’ |
| 7 | I 'm ever so disappointed that I 've not been to Yugoslavia , I wanted to go to Dubrovnik , you know , it 's been on the sort of list but I 've never got round to it . |
| 8 | For instance , before the war , it was reported that he was heard to say over the telephone , in reply to an invitation from a leading London hostess , ‘ I should especially like to come , as I have not been to Hampstead since 1916 ’ . |
| 9 | ‘ I have not been to Service these few years , ’ she said . |
| 10 | The three sets which have not been to the Joint Committee come under the negative procedure and are consequential upon the main affirmative orders . |
| 11 | But I incline to think that our grandfathers and grandmothers were in the right of it , and that no one can claim to understand Wordsworth who has not been to Hawkshead and Ambleside . |
| 12 | It is — The Under-Secretary of State , the hon. Member for Maidstone ( Miss Widdecombe ) , laughs and cackles , but I have no doubt that she has not been to Archway Tower . |
| 13 | You 've not been to Aflex ? |
| 14 | Anna thought of the funeral she had not been to , she had often thought about it , the strange people and strange cats who attended it . |
| 15 | I could also check that she had not been to Baskerville Hall on the night of Sir Charles ' death . |
| 16 | West Germans who had not been to the East had no difficulty in believing them . |
| 17 | It must introduce new concepts , whether in mathematics , geography , physics or literature , concepts that are unfamiliar , and would have remained unknown to a child who had not been to school . |
| 18 | We were taught at home by Mam 's maiden sister , Aunt Mary , who had not been to school herself . |
| 19 | There can not be many Catholics in Halifax who have not been to an event at St. Mary 's ! |
| 20 | Edward Gillespie , Managing Director of Cheltenham Racecourse , says we 're hoping to attract families and people who have not been to Cheltenham before . |
| 21 | ‘ I have some shopping to do and you have not been to the town at all . |
| 22 | Well this i that 's a lunch club rumour because that one has not been to airport |
| 23 | UNTIL Saturday we 'd not been to Meadowbank Stadium since July 1986 , the distinctly unlucky 13th Commonwealth Games . |
| 24 | Fitzormonde and Mowbray had always been soft , they could whine and moan that they had not been to blame , but Horne had agreed to Whitton 's plan and built a thriving business on the proceeds . |
| 25 | The problem is not just that the children have not attended a school where English is taught ; they have not been to a school of any description for years on end . |
| 26 | Relations between Egypt and Libya have been erratic since Colonel Gaddafi seized power 20 years ago , and he has not been to Egypt since the 1973 Arab-Israeli war . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Most attention focuses here on shifts in Labour policy , on armaments and on the EC , to which may also be added another less publicised shift , namely on attitudes to the US : when Foot became leader of the Labour Party in 1979 , he had not been to Washington since the 1940s ; Kinnock and his associates were frequent , and informed , visitors . |
| 30 | He was fully dressed , his shirt creased enough to imply he had not been to bed at all . |