Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [not/n't] been [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And when I , I mean when I , I actu actually felt quite emotional cos I 'd not been to Park to see a match for a long time and I mean we 're living up here erm , and er , I just felt quite emotional when I got out and saw that lovely pitch it was in perfect |
| 2 | I 'd not been in London long and those lesbian and gay friends I had were involved in squatting more than gay liberation . |
| 3 | He was quite aware of my childish misdemeanours , but I had n't been to confession since I returned from Egypt , and I thought he would be profoundly shocked by what I should have to tell him . |
| 4 | I arrived from nowhere , I had n't been to drama school . |
| 5 | ‘ I wish I had n't been to Zaire . |
| 6 | They could see by my record that I had n't been to prison before , did n't know the procedure . |
| 7 | 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 . ’ |
| 8 | I had n't been in bed all that long . |
| 9 | I heard him leaving because I had n't been in bed very long , and I heard him coming back because I had a bit of indigestion and I could n't sleep . ’ |
| 10 | No , I had n't been in prison . |
| 11 | I had not been to London for over twenty years , and my daughters had never been there . |
| 12 | The library , which had not been in use since Sir John Merchiston 's death some seven years earlier , was a very pleasant room , positioned opposite the ballroom , between Araminta 's parlour and the big saloon , with panelled walls , quantities of shelving , an ivory inlay desk , leather chairs before the fireplace , and a good deal of light , even on this overcast day , coming in from a glazed door leading out into a pretty walled garden . |
| 13 | She had n't been to confession since the vision . |
| 14 | She had n't been to Scotland for years . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | She had n't been in love with Hugh . |
| 17 | Millions and millions of bits of information were still in her head , correctly labelled and neatly stored , but she could not work out the geography of this house , she was seeing green tigers and she was afraid in a way she had not been since childhood . |
| 18 | I could also check that she had not been to Baskerville Hall on the night of Sir Charles ' death . |
| 19 | It was Hermione , genuinely concerned because she had not been at school ; someone who had missed her . |
| 20 | Clearly she had not been in favour of Jenny 's alliance with Matthew . |
| 21 | And , the greatest guilt of all , if she had not been in Maisie 's house … if Maisie had not been tending to the birthing … then the fire would not have happened and that darling woman would be alive today . |
| 22 | Before the 1991 visit she had not been in Northern Ireland since she spent two days in the province in August 1977 during her national jubilee tour . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | It must introduce new concepts , whether in mathematics , geography , physics or literature , concepts that are unfamiliar , and would have remained unknown to a child who had not been to school . |
| 25 | We were taught at home by Mam 's maiden sister , Aunt Mary , who had not been to school herself . |
| 26 | " He wanted to know why you had n't been to class lately . " |
| 27 | UNTIL Saturday we 'd not been to Meadowbank Stadium since July 1986 , the distinctly unlucky 13th Commonwealth Games . |
| 28 | There was no one in the staff sitting room , but then , there had n't been for years . |
| 29 | Oh yes and there were eight choir men , you see , well no choir at all there had n't been for years , you see so er and I had a photograph somewhere of my father with eight choir men , you see , and er well after that |
| 30 | ‘ This morning you discovered they had n't been with Peter Leary as they 'd told us . |