Example sentences of "[verb] n't been here " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He has n't been here for some time , ’ Hari answered . |
| 2 | ‘ I do n't understand it , he has n't been here in ten years ! |
| 3 | ‘ No , ma'am , she definitely has n't been here . |
| 4 | ‘ Have n't I told you that Doreen has n't been here ? ’ |
| 5 | His father has n't been here for years . |
| 6 | Er , yes that was David , Robert has n't , Robert 's coming next weekend , but he has n't been here for a few weeks |
| 7 | she said she was gon na ring me back , but you see I have n't been here this afternoon so I 'll perhaps ring again tomorrow . |
| 8 | If you had n't been here we 'd all be in a far worse pickle . |
| 9 | Then : ‘ What if you had n't been here ? ’ |
| 10 | Jezrael almost fell over a gee-node that had n't been here when her memories had taped the place . |
| 11 | I think if Mum had n't been here I 'd have done something to her . |
| 12 | So he had n't been here this morning while she was forcing her way through the woods ? |
| 13 | And , oh , Ellie , if you had n't been here , I 'd have gone down the aisle looking such a fright … ’ |
| 14 | Ooh I thought he was going to , ooh I felt made me go cold and I I thought if , if I had n't been here on my own I 'd have been very tempted to go round and and say is there anything I can do . |
| 15 | Then she said , quietly , ‘ Yes , although I have n't been here for a long time . |
| 16 | When it , and the Government can produce fifty pieces of legislation affecting local government since nineteen seventy nine , I have n't been here since nineteen seventy nine thankfully , so I have to analyze everything , but they always landed our the ma the major ones and , so for example erm , it was the Local government Unit that produced the initial response of the Poll Tax , what strategy the Council should adopt er , the Council wo n't distance approach , we wanted to make it clear that the Poll Tax was a Government erm , it was a Government initiative and it was being forcedly on us and that was the way , did that effect it , that was a guided and then there was the nineteen eight nine local Government Housing Act , which I 'm sure many of you . |
| 17 | ‘ I have n't been here very long . |
| 18 | ‘ Of course you would n't understand that because you have n't been here long enough . ’ |
| 19 | Nothing else has changed ; I have n't been here since that day a week after Clare died , and it had the same muddily washed-out look about it then . |
| 20 | I have n't been here for years , although the land belongs to me . |
| 21 | ‘ You have n't been here for weeks — all the time I was ill . |
| 22 | The children ( ‘ 7 yrs ’ ) have n't been here yet . |
| 23 | ‘ I have n't been here for very long . |
| 24 | After all , you have n't been here anywhere near a week and you do n't seem to be getting anywhere . ’ |
| 25 | People who knew us before and have n't been here since get terribly confused when they walk in and rather wonder everything has gone to . |
| 26 | No they have n't been here at all . |
| 27 | I have n't been here for ages and ages ! |
| 28 | They have n't been here ! |
| 29 | You have n't been here for last week did you ? |
| 30 | Well I have n't been here to have chips Richard |