Example sentences of "[verb] n't been [adv] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There 's an oil stain beneath it , but I bet it has n't been on since last February . |
| 2 | ‘ He has n't been here for some time , ’ Hari answered . |
| 3 | ‘ I do n't understand it , he has n't been here in ten years ! |
| 4 | He has n't been home for twelve months |
| 5 | you know , it is just so frustrating , you know and er some of these kids he said and the language they use , one girl came in , she had n't been in for three or four days , he had n't met her and he said hello you must be such and such er |
| 6 | Had n't been out since this morning . |
| 7 | They had n't been out for any days since Adam had been at home . |
| 8 | I had n't been there for more than a minute when the skipper bellowed : ‘ This is melanoma country , mate . |
| 9 | The couple next door said she had n't been there for several days . |
| 10 | You bozos do n't seem to realise it but if we had n't been there at that Florence Conference , would not be in the leading position it currently holds with the commission to guarantee further funds and to create a positive role for Britain in Europe with the commission to wuk look at the issues that are gon na come up in 1993 . |
| 11 | One song reveals the damaging influence on their minds of their sojourn in London : ‘ Soccer Fan ’ is a peon of praise to Everton 's midfield cruncher , Norman Whiteside. l CURIOSITY KILLED THE CAT Get Ahead ( Mercury ) You can tell that Curiosity Killed The Cat have n't been around for some time . |
| 12 | You 've just said you have n't been around for several weeks . |
| 13 | When it , and the Government can produce fifty pieces of legislation affecting local government since nineteen seventy nine , I have n't been here since nineteen seventy nine thankfully , so I have to analyze everything , but they always landed our the ma the major ones and , so for example erm , it was the Local government Unit that produced the initial response of the Poll Tax , what strategy the Council should adopt er , the Council wo n't distance approach , we wanted to make it clear that the Poll Tax was a Government erm , it was a Government initiative and it was being forcedly on us and that was the way , did that effect it , that was a guided and then there was the nineteen eight nine local Government Housing Act , which I 'm sure many of you . |
| 14 | Nothing else has changed ; I have n't been here since that day a week after Clare died , and it had the same muddily washed-out look about it then . |
| 15 | No they have n't been here at all . |
| 16 | You have n't been here for last week did you ? |
| 17 | ‘ Friday nights because we have n't been together for four nights , Sundays because we know there are another four ahead of us , and … why Saturdays ? ’ |
| 18 | We have n't been together for three months . |
| 19 | We have n't been out at all . |
| 20 | been out , I have n't been out since New Year 's Eve . |
| 21 | have n't been there for many years |