Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] n't been [prep] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I wish I had n't been to Zaire . |
| 2 | Er two bedrooms , it was a number sixty six Street in those days , there were new houses built on where it is now , I have n't been into Palfry for years but er there were five houses in the row , there was a family named at one end , there was us my nan of course we were next to , next to us was Mrs , a Mr and Mrs , and then er that was one side of the entry the other side of the entry was a family named , they had quite a large family , there was er two or three of those married Mrs and then er then Mrs they were all relatives , cos there was no such thing as overcrowding in those days you got as many in as you could you see , there was , another was Mr and Mrs she was a daughter of Mrs there was Mrs and Mrs she was another daughter of Mrs , and then er there were , there was a , a young man he was a son of Mrs , the were I think show people originally cos they were a bit anyhow there were five houses down the yard we had n't got running water in the sink , we had a , a big stone pump pipe in at the bottom of the entry we all had to go and draw out our own drinking water from this one standpipe . |
| 3 | No , I have n't been into York yet , I 'm on my way , I live near Harrogate . |
| 4 | I mean I have n't been to Guildford for oh god I do n't know when I think probably with you the last time I went to Guildford . |
| 5 | ‘ No ; I have n't been to Durham Cathedral . ’ |
| 6 | I have n't been to Paris since er ooh a long time a whe last time I went there I was on honeymoon so that 's a few years ago . |
| 7 | Well , I was actually im , very impressed with the Underground cos I do , I have n't been to Euston before and the Underground is really I mean , it 's modern but it 's clean and it 's actually |
| 8 | I have n't been to Hong Kong to see Ben |
| 9 | Well I have n't been to Barton |
| 10 | I have n't been to Heathrow as much as I 'd been to Gatwick |
| 11 | Erm No I have n't been in Ireland duck . |
| 12 | ‘ Do n't assume I have n't been in Scotland . |
| 13 | She has n't been in Italy for a long time . |
| 14 | She had n't been to Scotland for years . |
| 15 | Till then I had felt I was beginning to get his measure ; first of all , his English , though excellent , was somehow not contemporary , more that of someone who had n't been in England for many years ; and then his whole appearance was foreign . |
| 16 | For those who have n't been to Versailles for many years , there is now much more to see . |
| 17 | If you have n't been to Greece before , Corfu is the perfect place to start . |
| 18 | You have n't been to France then ? |
| 19 | You have n't been in London for months , so it must be someone from round here . |
| 20 | He 's really upset because we have n't been to Devon . |
| 21 | we have n't been since Sunday dinner have we ? |
| 22 | ‘ This morning you discovered they had n't been with Peter Leary as they 'd told us . |
| 23 | He went on , ‘ If it had n't been for Bertha sticking to her guns over the question of the house , I 'd have been married to Doreen by now — and that would have been a disaster . ’ |
| 24 | If it had n't been for Müller . |
| 25 | If it had n't been for Müller 's exposure , he might have been amenable . |
| 26 | In fact , if it had n't been for Granpa I would n't even have been made to attend the local elementary school in Jubilee Street , and ‘ attend ’ was the right word , because I did n't do a lot once I 'd got there , other than bang the lid of my little desk and occasionally pull the pigtails of ‘ Posh Porky ’ , the girl who sat in front of me . |
| 27 | If it had n't been for Willie 's attentive expression he would have stopped . |
| 28 | If it had n't been for Arthur Billstock , I would probably have taken the same road as Mark . |
| 29 | If it had n't been for Anna , she 'd have been gone at sunrise . |
| 30 | There would n't have been an Opera House at all if it had n't been for Joseph F Warden , the actor manager who settled in Belfast in 1864 with his actress wife Jenny Bellair . |