Example sentences of "i [vb past] not [be] [prep] " 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 'd not been in London long and those lesbian and gay friends I had were involved in squatting more than gay liberation . |
| 3 | Wright said : ‘ I recognised that , in the previous two games , I had not been at my best . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | I had not been to London for over twenty years , and my daughters had never been there . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | So , I had not been in the house an hour when he sent three of the Six to me . |