Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] n't been [adv] for " in BNC.
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| 31 | He has n't been round for a while , Andy , has he ? |
| 32 | ‘ He has n't been downstairs for over five years . |
| 33 | ‘ He has n't been here for some time , ’ Hari answered . |
| 34 | Er , yes that was David , Robert has n't , Robert 's coming next weekend , but he has n't been here for a few weeks |
| 35 | Mm and old Bob down the road , Bob , he has n't been in for about the same sort of time this 'll be his fourth week wo n't it ? |
| 36 | He has n't been home for twelve months |
| 37 | ‘ He has n't been out for days , ’ another boy said . |
| 38 | Well of course it 's not on , it has n't been on for weeks . |
| 39 | No it has n't been there for a little while British National Corpus I 've been carrying it around with me |
| 40 | And that misuse of the aerosol sprays is probably responsible for about three thousand five hundred deaths , but I think you 've got to put that into perspective , first of all against the six thousand people who are killed on the roads every year in Britain , and you 've also got to set it against our estimate that there are more than a quarter of a million people alive today who would have died in childhood if it had n't been specifically for the advantage of being able to take medicines , anti-biotics generally in their childhood to keep them alive . |
| 41 | It was n't enough ; it had n't been enough for a long time . |
| 42 | He had n't been round for days . |
| 43 | ‘ He had n't been home for weeks , anyway … ’ |