Example sentences of "[vb past] [not/n't] [been] [adv] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She knew she had been dismissed from Algox because she had not been up for grabs . |
| 2 | It had not been there during Mass . |
| 3 | Because if you had not been down in Minya chasing that gipsy woman you would have been at the theatre . |
| 4 | ‘ Well , if you do , do you think any of them would have signed this form if it had not been all in order and above board ? ’ |
| 5 | There had not been much to Clive . |
| 6 | Until now , Offa 's Dyke had not been much in evidence but from Chirk Castle beyond Oswestry 's old racecourse there is a sizeable stretch . |
| 7 | I had not been back with Bill Francis two minutes before she appeared . |
| 8 | He had not been back to Stowe since the day he left , almost seventeen years before . |
| 9 | When Douglas MacArthur returned to America , MacArthur had not been back to America since nineteen forty one this is ten years later , he 'd been running Japan in the meantime there was one of these huge ticker-tape parades in New York , he was the welcoming hero and President Truman was seen as the villain and some analysts argue that that decision , that single decision to sack MacArthur may well have cost Harry Truman the American presidency . |
| 10 | They had not been back in London long before he and Ricky left for the West Indies . |
| 11 | He had n't been round for days . |
| 12 | Because I had n't been around much , I had n't been away from home |
| 13 | And it would be yesterday morning again , and she had n't been up to Hunter Ward and eavesdropped on a conversation . |
| 14 | I had n't been back to Gallanach yet this year , had n't spoken to dad . |
| 15 | He had n't been back to Beirut in four years . |
| 16 | We had n't been out for ages and there was a good film on . ’ |
| 17 | And I had n't been out of bath long I says do n't knock on my bastard door again I said , I 'll wring your neck . |
| 18 | well I had n't been out from Monday till yesterday Sharon 's at the hospital now with the babe |
| 19 | If everything had n't been quite in order he would n't , of course , have asked her . |
| 20 | ‘ He had n't been home for weeks , anyway … ’ |
| 21 | Well I had n't been there for ages ! |
| 22 | It is n't as if the chances had n't been there for Leeds to win away last term : Oldham 2–0 up with 5 minutes to go , Sheff . |
| 23 | I had n't been there by daylight before and my bibliophile heart had lifted at the sight of those tall glass cabinets , shelf over shelf of finely bound volumes , each of them a door on the possible . |