Example sentences of "[pron] had not [been] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Even so , I did feel an enormous sense of anti-climax in the 200 metres heats and semi-finals ; I had not been through this in the Commonwealth Games because of my injury , and my lack of experience showed . |
| 32 | So , I had not been in the house an hour when he sent three of the Six to me . |
| 33 | He told the magistrates the licence was for a car which had not been on the road for nine months . |
| 34 | The library , which had not been in use since Sir John Merchiston 's death some seven years earlier , was a very pleasant room , positioned opposite the ballroom , between Araminta 's parlour and the big saloon , with panelled walls , quantities of shelving , an ivory inlay desk , leather chairs before the fireplace , and a good deal of light , even on this overcast day , coming in from a glazed door leading out into a pretty walled garden . |
| 35 | The accountants ' error lay in receiving and acting upon a further claim which had not been in their terms of reference and had not been notified to the other party . |
| 36 | If she had n't been with him she 'd have been here before now . |
| 37 | She had n't been to Scotland for years . |
| 38 | She had n't been to an art class since she had been married . |
| 39 | She had n't been to confession since the vision . |
| 40 | 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 . |
| 41 | She said she had n't been for a while and erm then she said they did n't really know , they wondered how she was gon na get on in the water . |
| 42 | Apart from a few weddings she had n't been inside a church for a long while . |
| 43 | She had n't been in there for months . |
| 44 | But she finally admitted that she had n't been in the ship at the time . |
| 45 | She had n't been in love with Hugh . |
| 46 | I knew she had n't been in the garden , I would have been able to smell her . |
| 47 | ‘ When ? ’ she questioned , feeling her palms already starting to itch — and she had n't been in his company five minutes yet ! |
| 48 | She had n't been around herself at the time and said Gustav did n't like talking about it much . |
| 49 | Millions and millions of bits of information were still in her head , correctly labelled and neatly stored , but she could not work out the geography of this house , she was seeing green tigers and she was afraid in a way she had not been since childhood . |
| 50 | She opened her eyes and was aware of being in her mother 's bed , where she had not been for over ten years . |
| 51 | But she brought them because it salved her conscience to bring something , and she had not been for two weeks now . |
| 52 | 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 . |
| 53 | I could also check that she had not been to Baskerville Hall on the night of Sir Charles ' death . |
| 54 | It was Hermione , genuinely concerned because she had not been at school ; someone who had missed her . |
| 55 | Although Marie said nothing , she had not been at all worried about Gazzer getting hurt . |
| 56 | Guilt because she had not been at her father 's side when death had sent him this violent warning . |
| 57 | He also contradicted Mrs Mandela 's alibi by saying she had not been in the Orange Free State on the day Stompie and three other youths were assaulted at her Soweto house . |
| 58 | The scuffle at the Club Des Esseintes aside , she had not been in a fight since elementary school . |
| 59 | She would have liked Nice — if she had not been in such a hurry to be in Paris . |
| 60 | And , the greatest guilt of all , if she had not been in Maisie 's house … if Maisie had not been tending to the birthing … then the fire would not have happened and that darling woman would be alive today . |