Example sentences of "[verb] not been [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unless it was sentimental to want to remember a time when he and this girl had not been strangers to each other . |
| 2 | It was not that she was unattractive , or that there had not been offers for her . |
| 3 | Many of these had not been Christians for very long . |
| 4 | Of course , the fourteen years since she had moved into the Bayswater house had not been years of unremitting misery and depression . |
| 5 | There 've not been trains in Barney for 30 years ; a lot of them had never seen one in their lives . ’ |
| 6 | Up to now the Japanese have not been leaders in disc design . |
| 7 | Well I , I still do look er y you know but not er m you see last year th there 's not been bargains with erm , who was it who went bust ? |