Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] n't been there " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had n't been there for more than a minute when the skipper bellowed : ‘ This is melanoma country , mate . |
| 2 | He 'd walked into the boathouse and tried to pick up an envelope and the floor had given way beneath him and a piece of beam was missing , and if I had n't been there with him he would certainly have drowned in the dock , impaled on something lurking beneath the surface . |
| 3 | If I had n't been there , Russell would have hit her . |
| 4 | I had n't been there from the age of seven without learning what went down in Roundhay . |
| 5 | I had n't been there long . |
| 6 | What would you be doing at this moment , if I had n't been there ’ |
| 7 | I think , if I had n't been there , she 'd have gone to sleep right away . |
| 8 | I had n't been there by daylight before and my bibliophile heart had lifted at the sight of those tall glass cabinets , shelf over shelf of finely bound volumes , each of them a door on the possible . |
| 9 | The Jewish family got back their papers and told me afterwards that if I had n't been there to see it , God knows what might have happened to them . |
| 10 | I had n't been there long enough . |
| 11 | I had n't been there ten minutes when the bailiff came , ’ he said . |
| 12 | Well I had n't been there for ages ! |
| 13 | I mean , there could I mean I think the House of Commons is now some way past in in my life in the sense I have n't been there since er June . |
| 14 | Yes I am at the moment , I , I 'm the highest earner at the moment and I 'm on the highest grade but I have n't been there the longest . |
| 15 | I have n't been there for oh I 'm always going down there for petrol now . |
| 16 | I have n't been there for over a , a year or more I think last time I was there |
| 17 | I have n't been there . |
| 18 | I can build a I 've only been there , I have n't been there three years . |
| 19 | Slowly Agatha got up , feeling twinges in her joints which had n't been there before . |
| 20 | But she has n't been there for a few weeks now so I think she might be ill . |
| 21 | She has n't been there for about a month . |
| 22 | She did n't turn up , so of course I then telephoned her office and found she had n't been there that week . |
| 23 | The couple next door said she had n't been there for several days . |
| 24 | because she does it , she did n't know what was in the garden , cos she had n't been there long enough , now I think that 's silly because I think you 're better waiting a couple of years , seeing what comes up |
| 25 | This is daft when you 've lost your job through no fault of your own ; when it really happened because your company had to contract , were firing people on the ‘ last in , first out ’ basis and you had n't been there long . |
| 26 | And what 's more , Biddy would have liked me if you had n't been there . |
| 27 | ‘ All right , you have n't been there , you say . |
| 28 | You have n't been there for ages . |
| 29 | You bozos do n't seem to realise it but if we had n't been there at that Florence Conference , would not be in the leading position it currently holds with the commission to guarantee further funds and to create a positive role for Britain in Europe with the commission to wuk look at the issues that are gon na come up in 1993 . |
| 30 | They were testing our responses and they 'd have been disappointed if we had n't been there . |