Example sentences of "n't been [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Choose an open , sunny site where brassicas have n't been grown for a few years . |
| 2 | I 'm dying to try out my hairdressing skills and I 've got these two absolutely sumptuous dresses which have n't been worn for ages . |
| 3 | pending discussions but the whole thing Mr chairman really has n't erm has n't been decided to you know er a few colleagues point er I mean there 's nothing we can actually start and you can put pencil to paper on at the present time . |
| 4 | She had n't been reading at all but had been glancing out of the window not seeing the gracious gardens that surrounded Summer Lodge , but planning ways to help Craig when he came to her . |
| 5 | I felt she had n't been thinking about Charlie at all — except as an inspiration — but that , like me , she 'd been dwelling on what she might do in the world . |
| 6 | I had n't been thinking about her that much , just a few times a day , and seldom imagined that I 'd glimpse her here or there on the street , on a bus , in the Superette , in the hospital , on a passing aeroplane five miles high . |
| 7 | There were frogs all round us , bubbling away , and we sat still for a bit and then he said , ‘ That 's the sound of Africa — it 's one of the things I love best ’ , and I knew he had n't been thinking about the baby or about me . |
| 8 | The truth was that George had n't been thinking about anything except himself . |
| 9 | Dot had n't been thinking of her . |
| 10 | I had n't been thinking of stress or shock , I 'd been nursing a hangover . |
| 11 | McDunn nods slowly , slightly , a distant look in his eyes like he 's not really nodding at what I 've just told him ; has n't been listening to a word I 've said , in fact . |
| 12 | ‘ You have n't been listening to us . |
| 13 | ’ Oh , Bill , you have n't been listening to a word I said ! ’ |
| 14 | He had n't been listening to the worried discussions behind him . |
| 15 | The only thing I can tell you with certainty is that Master Meredith has n't been riding since the accident . |
| 16 | The fungi have n't been attended to for decades and , warped by the magic of the Castle , have changed considerably . |
| 17 | But I do n't see that that 's any reason why the mail has n't been attended to . ’ |
| 18 | This as far as I 'm aware has n't been challenged by anybody else . |
| 19 | She had assumed that because mother had n't wept or shown grief that her father had n't been loved by anyone but herself and her father 's parents , who wept copiously . |
| 20 | There is scarcely an industry that has n't been affected by it ; from manufacturing through to publishing . |
| 21 | He 's gon na find it hard as well I think , but on the other hand they have n't been communicating at all , you know , it 's not like |
| 22 | With two broken legs he 'd have starved to death if he had n't been cared for … now he can look forward to a rather more chirpy 1992 . |
| 23 | ‘ Primary ’ rainforest is an area that has n't been disturbed for hundreds of years and has reached a state of mature complexity ; it is also known as virgin forest . |
| 24 | But in recent years we noticed that some candidates were writing to us — or their employers were writing — to say that certificates had n't been received for modules completed one or more years previously . |
| 25 | ( In fact Boy had n't been hit in the face by O. As I said , that white skin marked easily , and Boy 's eyes were in fact just bruised with fatigue , with six sleepless nights in a row . |
| 26 | IN JULY last year I wrote about the brothers Peter and David Mason and their father Peter , who had been banged up in Liverpool jail for more than a year , though they had n't been convicted of anything . |
| 27 | All packaging is recyclable , the ingredients are bio-degradable and have n't been tested on animals . |
| 28 | Her British certificate has n't been renewed for twenty years . ’ |
| 29 | He would have been happy with that if only he had n't been placed behind Eleanor . |
| 30 | My argument is yes the maintenance has been increased , my Income Support has n't been increased by a penny |