Example sentences of "n't [been] seen [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now an acting sergeant , he had a platoon of forty men to prepare for battle , all of whom still came under the overall command of Captain Trentham , who had n't been seen since the day Tommy had been released . |
| 2 | The play 's pleasures are largely connoisseurial ( it has n't been seen for 20 years ) , though one suspects its absence from the stage is a case of understandable neglect . |
| 3 | I 'd dressed in my long dress , eaten breakfast bedu fashion , discussed the children 's health with the Sheikha over coffee — the Youngest Son had had far too many headaches and his usual teasing and joking had n't been seen for days . |
| 4 | After a while the station returned to normal , Charlotte had n't been seen for some time , and Albert had been killed in World War I so all three participants in the awful tragedy had gone for ever , or had they ? |
| 5 | Barbara Allsopp and her husband Alan have n't been seen for three days . |
| 6 | One of the mothers has been told her husband is missing , others have n't been seen for months . |
| 7 | They are there to see in various books that have been published ; I suppose it is sad that they have n't been seen by a wider opera-going public . |
| 8 | JUST because we have n't been seen in LINK for a while — it does n't mean its been quiet at Crediton ! |