Example sentences of "[vb base] [not/n't] been [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , had Fei Yen not been in the boat , he would have allowed himself to concede that Wu Tsai was herself quite beautiful . |
| 2 | ‘ I 've not been on the moon , ’ he added , without any irony , simply as a statement of fact . |
| 3 | Only that you 've not been on his bike or yesterday . |
| 4 | No I 've not been at my work this |
| 5 | You 've not been at your work . |
| 6 | No I 've not been at my work this |
| 7 | You 've not been at your work . |
| 8 | ‘ I 've not been to the new grounds at Walsall and Scunthorpe , Maidstone 's ground , or covered a League match at Barnet . |
| 9 | I 've not been to London in twelve years . ’ |
| 10 | You 've not been to Aflex ? |
| 11 | I 'm ever so disappointed that I 've not been to Yugoslavia , I wanted to go to Dubrovnik , you know , it 's been on the sort of list but I 've never got round to it . |
| 12 | Its reaching out to the people who 've not been through the processes that we 've been through and are still attached to ideas that are in essence racist , imperialist , sexist , heterosexist , and how we , nevertheless , draw those people into activity . |
| 13 | I 've not been against lines of communication , I 've been against excessive expenditure on such . |
| 14 | ‘ I 've not been in this part of the forest . |
| 15 | ‘ I 've not been in the country long . |
| 16 | Since coming here , I 've not been in trouble for a year ’ . |
| 17 | I 've not been in the situation ‘ Little Thing ’ describes , but everyone 's gon na assume I have . |
| 18 | Anyway , I 've not been in a black cab in years . |
| 19 | You 've not been in trouble with your teacher again ? ! " |
| 20 | They 've not been in a flat |
| 21 | But of course I 've not been in the market you , you know . |
| 22 | Yes they 'll have one , I 've not been in there |
| 23 | You 've not been near a phonebox or a letterbox . |
| 24 | I , I 've not been near one , I would n't know but you have to stand next to them to get an effect , to kn know how big they are . |
| 25 | Completed in July 1991 , it now houses our colony of nine chimpanzees , who have not been on public display for over two years . |
| 26 | On 21 May , Christie 's New York will sell thirty-one Italian paintings from the Getty 's collection , most of which have not been on view for many years either due to their unsatisfactory condition or their downgraded status : a ‘ Rest on the Flight into Egypt ’ was described in 1963 as ‘ the greatest reward for visitors to the collection … by Orazio Gentileschi , a Caravaggesque masterpiece by an artist who had learned the lesson of realism ’ , only to be dubbed a later copy , probably Francesco Gentileschi , in the opinion of R.W. Bissel , the leading authority on the artist ( est. $50–70,000 ) . |
| 27 | The reasons given for these sales are that the Museum has limited storage space in its present building , and that the works in question have not been on exhibition for some considerable time , or duplicate existing holdings . |
| 28 | Harwood 's tale of brotherly love too , by its nature , changes into a different gear in its second half after an opening act in which the Manx brothers ‘ we have not been on speakies for ten years ’ look poised for a reconciliation . |
| 29 | Now we have in the room here a tremendous amount of experience , of people who 've been in the industry , people who 've worked with this company for many , many years , and we 've also got people with us who have not been with us very long , and I 'd you to know we may have covered certain aspects of this on sales skills courses just to talk through what the point of the exercise is , I E what we do for a living . |
| 30 | The difference between most ARC members and professional chefs , male or female , is that the former have not been through ‘ the system ’ . |