Example sentences of "he [vb past] not [been] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Confession had not been a factor in the slowness of Pétain 's promotion in the way that it had checked the career of Foch , de Castelnau and other ardent Catholics ; indeed , Pétain could boast that he had not been to Mass for thirty years , so on this score alone he should have been earmarked , as things stood , for rapid advancement . |
| 2 | He was fully dressed , his shirt creased enough to imply he had not been to bed at all . |
| 3 | He had not been to university , he had some difficulty in grasping complex economic issues , and was prone to malapropisms , but was widely respected for his managerial skills and his political experience . |
| 4 | Most attention focuses here on shifts in Labour policy , on armaments and on the EC , to which may also be added another less publicised shift , namely on attitudes to the US : when Foot became leader of the Labour Party in 1979 , he had not been to Washington since the 1940s ; Kinnock and his associates were frequent , and informed , visitors . |
| 5 | He had not been at Eton himself but when he played for the masters his volleying in the Field Game — the Eton form of football — was long remembered . |
| 6 | But then , of course , he had not been at home . |
| 7 | He had not been on duty on the afternoon of the shooting or responsible for any of the aftermath investigations . |
| 8 | He had not been in court that morning after all ? |
| 9 | Furthermore , as evidenced in correspondence , he had not been in contact with his accountant , who knew of the General Commissioners ' decision , between 17 June 1991 and the end of October 1991 . |
| 10 | He received a letter the next day apologizing and accepting that he had not been in possession of a stolen car . |
| 11 | He had not been in trouble before and acted totally out of character . |
| 12 | Ajeya Singh returned to India and tried to refute the allegations , pointing out numerous flaws in the report , and offered his passport as evidence that he had not been in St Kitts when he was supposed to have signed documents opening the account with the now-defunct bank , the First Trust Corporation . |
| 13 | Those Simpsons , for instance , who knew the Foinmen no better than they knew Stonehenge , Dadda who bragged he had n't been on Vangmoor these twenty years . |
| 14 | If he had n't been on duty he would have been there . |
| 15 | Peter was a poor salesman , but he had n't been at DPR quite long enough yet to get sacked . |
| 16 | He had n't been to London in years , and did n't wish to . |
| 17 | He said he had n't been in trouble before . |
| 18 | He had thought she 'd rally round even though he had n't been in touch for nearly a year . |