Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [adv] been for [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Yes dear I went to erm , er the er holiday camp in October to erm , er with the Red Cross and I went with the , Charlie took me and I went in a car with a friend of mine we went to the Red Cross holiday in Patefield , but it poured of rain every day every day it poured of rain did n't October it was terrible , ever so cold , but we were well looked after you know and I enjoyed it and we had the wheelchairs to go around in on for the dancing , it was really great I thoroughly enjoyed it , I have n't been for two years I had n't , but I went like in October , cos you 're only allowed really every two years to go , that 's all you 're allowed really , but I thoroughly enjoyed it you know , it was nice
2 Cos I have n't been for two years since I 've been to that one !
3 " I have n't been for some time .
4 You 're lucky , I have n't been for three days .
5 I have n't been for three years .
6 It was her idea to come here each summer , but she has n't been for three years now .
7 But she brought them because it salved her conscience to bring something , and she had not been for two weeks now .
8 And there had also been for many years the musical evenings at your parents ' home .
9 " No , and there have n't been for some time . "
10 They were marching behind the others with great dignity , accountable as they had always been for good order and common sense and respectable behaviour .
11 They have not been for some time except to people who still remember The Beatles and The Animals .
12 It has n't been for three years . "
13 Primarily a religious holiday , it has also been for hundreds of years a secular holiday , often with a travelling showmen 's fair visiting the village at the time .
14 Hardwick 's involvement might have ended there , if it had not been for one of the tradesmen , who addressed a petition to the Company nine months later : his original estimate of £2,514 18 1¼d had left him bearing a loss of £266 6 3¾d .
15 ‘ owing to the presence of which ’ This point is normally covered in any witness statement that might be available , viz. ‘ I saw four vehicles were involved etc. ’ or ‘ if it had not been for that vehicle the accident would not have happened ’ .
16 There was a lesson at school I should have loved if it had not been for poor Lucy .
17 ‘ Sir , ’ he said to the court , ‘ I would be a dead man by now if it had not been for this gentleman . ’
18 And equally clearly , concealed in the base of the box , it had not been for public view .
19 It was in Schiaparelli that she met Tricarico , who brought her aboard the Resplendent Trogon , which led her into the presence of Balthazar Plum — and if it had n't been for all that , she would never have acquired the Alice in the first place .
20 I would have died too if it had n't been for that telegraph pole . ’
21 And I 'll tell you somethin' else : your mother would n't have died if it had n't been for that man . ’
22 ‘ If it had n't been for that you 'd never have found us . ’
23 If it had n't been for that you 'd have reached Shipton and been on a train by now . ’
24 Deep inside , I thought that George loved Lennie and vice versa because if it had n't been for this love , they would n't have been able to survive happily together .
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