Example sentences of "n't been on " in BNC.
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| 1 | I know for sure if he had n't been on the scene and it was only Colonel Vaughan and myself , I would most likely have said . |
| 2 | Probably they had n't been on stage more than half a dozen times before they were put under this microscope . |
| 3 | ‘ My parents and I had n't been on good terms for some time . |
| 4 | She experienced changeable moods and panic attacks — she had n't been on holiday for 20 years and could n't even go out to dinner for fear of not being able to get away . |
| 5 | I had n't been on a ferry for years . |
| 6 | They would n't have put that on if they had n't been on drugs ! |
| 7 | Enzo , the Jove of the motor-racing world , who may get all the statistics and results and data from the circuit but has n't been on the inside of modern racing on the track since prehistoric days , announces to the world that Lauda is n't taking care of his car , he neglects his work , he 's got himself married and buggers off home and more of the same . |
| 8 | The one(s) we have n't been on yet , and a Bob Dylan one |
| 9 | Because they have n't been on the market for long , it 's not possible to say how well they 'll stand the test of time . |
| 10 | People who have n't been on a council before . |
| 11 | And I should n't wonder if Potter has n't been on his knees peering through the railings . ’ |
| 12 | Those Simpsons , for instance , who knew the Foinmen no better than they knew Stonehenge , Dadda who bragged he had n't been on Vangmoor these twenty years . |
| 13 | And when I arrived I wouldn't 've been surprised if my name had n't been on the list but it was there . |
| 14 | The sarcophagus , they told me , is not one of the Museum 's more interesting possessions , and has n't been on display since 1904 . |
| 15 | Dropping anchor and manoeuvring into the quayside puts a good dinghy sailor who has n't been on a small cruiser before under considerable strain . |
| 16 | If he had n't been on duty he would have been there . |
| 17 | I had n't been on the open market for so long . |
| 18 | Denis , who has n't been on stage for decades , has n't a nerve in his body . |
| 19 | Her thoughts had n't been on the task in hand . |
| 20 | You have n't been on the receiving end of Doreen 's barbs , but if they pierce Ling 's skin to the extent of causing him to leave your service you can put a ring round the fact that there will be … definite disruption . |
| 21 | It 's been hell shut up in that cottage with two women who would both have braved the weather to come up here to see how you were if I had n't been on hand to stop them . ’ |
| 22 | I I have n't been on one of our courses for a little while but I think that 's very similar to er |
| 23 | David had n't been on duty at the factory that afternoon and Rachel had wondered if he would suggest picking her up from her flat and taking her to the hospital , but he had n't , and his failure to do so only emphasised the coolness that was rapidly growing between them . |
| 24 | ’ I have n't been on the stage for a long time , so I 'm bound to be as nervous as a kitten before I go on . |
| 25 | ‘ He was a devoted husband and had n't been on holiday for two years , ’ said son Liam , of Oundle , Northants . |
| 26 | to get up to the thirty five mile an hour you got ta go through all the five gears so you 're forever pa going like that erm and that made it worse so that last fortnight she has n't been on the bike and that last weekend when she went out she went because we was busy , she got her bike out and she went up to work one or two of her mates and then come home she said she 'd wished she had n't of gone up |
| 27 | Yeah , I know you do , I said , I said you have n't been on the bus already ? |
| 28 | too but this one , he has n't been on nights . |
| 29 | Have n't been on a boat I do n't thi o only like little , you know , |
| 30 | There has been coverage with such as yourselves and er the local papers , and we are getting word of mouth enquiries now , but we , we have said it 's for the newly qualified driver and since we 've started this scheme , I would put newly qualified in inverted commas , because we 've had two or three ladies ring us up who 've had four and five years driving experience as such and they 're frightened to death to go on a motorway and have n't been on a motorway . |