Example sentences of "[vb past] n't been [vb pp] for [noun] " in BNC.

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1 I was logging the cache petrol bombs which had n't been inspected for evaporation recently when the phone went .
2 But in recent years we noticed that some candidates were writing to us — or their employers were writing — to say that certificates had n't been received for modules completed one or more years previously .
3 I 'd dressed in my long dress , eaten breakfast bedu fashion , discussed the children 's health with the Sheikha over coffee — the Youngest Son had had far too many headaches and his usual teasing and joking had n't been seen for days .
4 Two witnesses , his sister , Mrs Rosalie Temple , and a friend , Mr James Robson , said that Mr Smith was an old-fashioned farmer living in an old-fashioned world — a house which had n't been altered for decades and which still depended on spring water .
5 Their daughter , Carla , nearly five now , looked as if she had n't been washed for days .
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