Example sentences of "had n't been [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had n't been over there . |
| 2 | as if I had n't been through enough today , I 've just been dubbed your plaything of the week — ’ |
| 3 | ‘ I wish I had n't been to Zaire . |
| 4 | She had n't been to Scotland for years . |
| 5 | Crowds of people , including many who had n't been to a church for years , came to hear him . |
| 6 | I arrived from nowhere , I had n't been to drama school . |
| 7 | She had n't been to an art class since she had been married . |
| 8 | Pamela had n't been to the tiny next-door island for years but she remembered its wild , deserted beaches , its spectacular rocky promontories , the surprising wheat fields among the rocky landscape that had given the island its name . |
| 9 | They could see by my record that I had n't been to prison before , did n't know the procedure . |
| 10 | He was quite aware of my childish misdemeanours , but I had n't been to confession since I returned from Egypt , and I thought he would be profoundly shocked by what I should have to tell him . |
| 11 | He had n't been to London in years , and did n't wish to . |
| 12 | He had n't been to the Martins ' for lunch since Antoinette died . |
| 13 | She had n't been to confession since the vision . |
| 14 | Lorton had n't been to confession for 25 years , but he remembered how it felt . |
| 15 | " He wanted to know why you had n't been to class lately . " |
| 16 | I had n't been to the mere for a week or two so did n't really know if the bream would still be moving or not . |
| 17 | I had n't been to the dump for a while , and it was about time I went to see what the good folk of Porteneil had thrown out . |
| 18 | Though it had n't been to Rosemary 's flat that the tall dark-haired man had come , but hers ! |
| 19 | You said you had n't been to a gym in ages . |
| 20 | No I had n't been to the Far East unfortunately . |
| 21 | I had n't been to the Far East . |
| 22 | But we 've got a massive sackful of stuff and no one had left us a forwarding address and the landlady had n't been to us about any of them . |
| 23 | if arrangements had n't been made for her to go to Australia might be , she has n't been may have you know , she still had n't been to the doctors |
| 24 | If it had n't been for the Yeti , I 'd never have met Malcolm McLaren or Johnie Rotten . |
| 25 | If it had n't been for me they 'd never have nicked any guitars and there would have been no group . |
| 26 | If it had n't been for you , after my fall … . ’ |
| 27 | It 's Sir Ralph Halpern 's view that if it had n't been for the current worldwide recession , many more outside brands would have been introduced to the UK market . |
| 28 | If it had n't been for Arthur Billstock , I would probably have taken the same road as Mark . |
| 29 | ‘ If it had n't been for Home Rule in the South , would Ulster have been ruled by Presbyterians in Belfast ? ’ |
| 30 | I might have travelled at almost eight thousand inches an hour if it had n't been for the stops . |