Example sentences of "[vb past] not [been] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After 1983 , the ‘ frontiers of the state ’ were , in this respect at least , rolled back as they had not been since 1945 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Although Marie said nothing , she had not been at all worried about Gazzer getting hurt . |
| 4 | Leila had not been at all pleased to find she was living under the same roof as Zambia Crevecoeur . |
| 5 | It had not been at all like that . |
| 6 | I was deeply shocked , for I had not been at all prepared for this sudden and tragic end to the adventure on which we had set out so gaily some twenty months before . |
| 7 | His slumber had not been at all restful . |
| 8 | So far though the viewers had not been at all suitable . |
| 9 | But things had not been at all what they 'd seemed — though she was bound by her promise never to reveal the truth . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | There was a lesson at school I should have loved if it had not been for poor Lucy . |
| 12 | But she brought them because it salved her conscience to bring something , and she had not been for two weeks now . |
| 13 | Hardwick 's involvement might have ended there , if it had not been for one of the tradesmen , who addressed a petition to the Company nine months later : his original estimate of £2,514 18 1¼d had left him bearing a loss of £266 6 3¾d . |
| 14 | ‘ owing to the presence of which ’ This point is normally covered in any witness statement that might be available , viz. ‘ I saw four vehicles were involved etc. ’ or ‘ if it had not been for that vehicle the accident would not have happened ’ . |
| 15 | ‘ Sir , ’ he said to the court , ‘ I would be a dead man by now if it had not been for this gentleman . ’ |
| 16 | And equally clearly , concealed in the base of the box , it had not been for public view . |
| 17 | Alice hoped it was not on account of Jasper though , clearly , to make that emotional speech had not been to clever . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | He had not been to any of the social functions advertised — it would have seemed like living his life backwards to enter voluntarily a church hall full of women and cups of tea — he could see his mother at the urn and himself as a boy handing round those very cups . |
| 20 | Further research revealed that in 1414/15 an Andrew Forshey had been chosen as one of two men to represent the borough in parliament , and it seemed sensible to hazard that a man of this standing would have held property in the area , for he would have been unlikely to have been elected by his fellow bailiffs , with the assent of the whole community , if he had not been of substantial material worth . |
| 21 | The first defendant appealed on the grounds , inter alia , that ( 1 ) the deputy judge had been wrong in law in holding that for the substituted section 9 ( b ) of the Wills Act 1837 to be satisfied the testator had to make his signature after making the dispositive provisions ; and ( 2 ) there was no sufficient evidence upon which the deputy judge could have found that the testator had not been of testamentary capacity at the time he had made and signed the alleged codicil on 18 April 1986 . |
| 22 | Lane had been assisted by a woman police officer , Detective -Sergeant Phyllis Henley , a thickset girl , whom he had called in because she was an old friend or enemy of Roxie whose own life had not been without criminal excitements . |
| 23 | Football specials still arrive at Wadsley Bridge although the station had not been in normal use since 1959 . |
| 24 | She had not been in that position . |
| 25 | He found her attractive ; all her efforts had not been in vain , there was no mistaking the sensuous gleam in his eyes , the predatory twist of his smile that told Robyn exactly how he 'd like the evening to end . |
| 26 | He told Mrs Edwards her son had given his life in the service of humanity and his sacrifice had not been in vain . |
| 27 | The proportions reported to have had difficulty with various aspects of caring for themselves ( getting in and out of a bath or shower , dressing and undressing , going to the toilet , washing and shaving , feeding themselves , making a hot drink , or needing help at night ) for a year or more before death was 87 per cent of those who had been in a residential home for a year or more , 60 per cent of those in for a shorter time and 25 per cent of those who had not been in such a home at all . |
| 28 | She would have liked Nice — if she had not been in such a hurry to be in Paris . |
| 29 | ‘ Why , my lord , when we were left alone — and I think if they had not been in such haste to move on they would not have left a man of us alive to tell the tale — we first tended the worst hurt , and took counsel , and decided we must take the news on to Ramsey , and also back here to Shrewsbury . |
| 30 | Certainly he had not been in such close proximity to a pretty young girl for as long as he could remember . |