Example sentences of "[vb past] [not/n't] [been] [adv] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It might not have been a very long missive , but it brought Aubrey into the room as if they had not been apart for two whole years . |
| 2 | If the builders of this artificial paradise had not been around for several millennia — as Alex Bannen seemed to think — how come the flora and fauna had n't run riot and completely ruined the environment ? |
| 3 | She had let her overwhelming desire feed her imagination ; had read something into his words , his looks , his actions , which had not been there at all . |
| 4 | Perhaps she had not been there at all , in the street , but a phantom instead had taken her place , looking like her , feeling like her inside too , but not her , for she , Rosa , had been in her bed , dreaming . |
| 5 | Because of my knee cartilage operation , I started the 1990–91 season having done no downhill training at all during the autumn , a situation which I had not been in since 1980 . |
| 6 | 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 |
| 7 | Had n't been out since this morning . |
| 8 | They had n't been out for any days since Adam had been at home . |
| 9 | I had n't been there for more than a minute when the skipper bellowed : ‘ This is melanoma country , mate . |
| 10 | The couple next door said she had n't been there for several days . |
| 11 | 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 . |