Example sentences of "have not [been] [prep] [det] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Bull has now failed to score for seven games but Turner said : ‘ There is not a striker in the country who has not been through that sort of spell . ’
2 If the client has not been through this process the search brief should be broadened to include this .
3 All mechanical parts seem in very good order and the vehicle has not been in any accidents .
4 Nathan had not been on enough flights to be anything but excited , and he was going north of the Arctic Circle for the first time .
5 ‘ owing to the presence of which ’ This point is normally covered in any witness statement that might be available , viz. ‘ I saw four vehicles were involved etc. ’ or ‘ if it had not been for that vehicle the accident would not have happened ’ .
6 ‘ Sir , ’ he said to the court , ‘ I would be a dead man by now if it had not been for this gentleman . ’
7 She had not been in that position .
8 ‘ Why , my lord , when we were left alone — and I think if they had not been in such haste to move on they would not have left a man of us alive to tell the tale — we first tended the worst hurt , and took counsel , and decided we must take the news on to Ramsey , and also back here to Shrewsbury .
9 ‘ I 've not been in this part of the forest .
10 They have not been for some time except to people who still remember The Beatles and The Animals .
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