Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] not be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And when I , I mean when I , I actu actually felt quite emotional cos I 'd not been to Park to see a match for a long time and I mean we 're living up here erm , and er , I just felt quite emotional when I got out and saw that lovely pitch it was in perfect |
| 2 | I 'd not been in London long and those lesbian and gay friends I had were involved in squatting more than gay liberation . |
| 3 | Wright said : ‘ I recognised that , in the previous two games , I had not been at my best . |
| 4 | I was deeply shocked , for I had not been at all prepared for this sudden and tragic end to the adventure on which we had set out so gaily some twenty months before . |
| 5 | I pointed out that I had not been to the polytechnic , but had been to Durham University on a scholarship — only the second the force had been awarded . |
| 6 | I had not been to such a party since before Leslie went to North Africa , and talking to Ika and his friends on a balcony canopied by a starry sky , I felt a spurt of pleasure , quickly followed by a surge of guilt : Leslie was dead , and I was alive , and capable of enjoying some temporary diversion . |
| 7 | I had not been to London for over twenty years , and my daughters had never been there . |
| 8 | Even so , I did feel an enormous sense of anti-climax in the 200 metres heats and semi-finals ; I had not been through this in the Commonwealth Games because of my injury , and my lack of experience showed . |
| 9 | So , I had not been in the house an hour when he sent three of the Six to me . |
| 10 | He told the magistrates the licence was for a car which had not been on the road for nine months . |
| 11 | The library , which had not been in use since Sir John Merchiston 's death some seven years earlier , was a very pleasant room , positioned opposite the ballroom , between Araminta 's parlour and the big saloon , with panelled walls , quantities of shelving , an ivory inlay desk , leather chairs before the fireplace , and a good deal of light , even on this overcast day , coming in from a glazed door leading out into a pretty walled garden . |
| 12 | The accountants ' error lay in receiving and acting upon a further claim which had not been in their terms of reference and had not been notified to the other party . |
| 13 | Millions and millions of bits of information were still in her head , correctly labelled and neatly stored , but she could not work out the geography of this house , she was seeing green tigers and she was afraid in a way she had not been since childhood . |
| 14 | She opened her eyes and was aware of being in her mother 's bed , where she had not been for over ten years . |
| 15 | But she brought them because it salved her conscience to bring something , and she had not been for two weeks now . |
| 16 | Anna thought of the funeral she had not been to , she had often thought about it , the strange people and strange cats who attended it . |
| 17 | I could also check that she had not been to Baskerville Hall on the night of Sir Charles ' death . |
| 18 | It was Hermione , genuinely concerned because she had not been at school ; someone who had missed her . |
| 19 | Although Marie said nothing , she had not been at all worried about Gazzer getting hurt . |
| 20 | Guilt because she had not been at her father 's side when death had sent him this violent warning . |
| 21 | He also contradicted Mrs Mandela 's alibi by saying she had not been in the Orange Free State on the day Stompie and three other youths were assaulted at her Soweto house . |
| 22 | The scuffle at the Club Des Esseintes aside , she had not been in a fight since elementary school . |
| 23 | She would have liked Nice — if she had not been in such a hurry to be in Paris . |
| 24 | And , the greatest guilt of all , if she had not been in Maisie 's house … if Maisie had not been tending to the birthing … then the fire would not have happened and that darling woman would be alive today . |
| 25 | She had not been in that position . |
| 26 | Clearly she had not been in favour of Jenny 's alliance with Matthew . |
| 27 | Before the 1991 visit she had not been in Northern Ireland since she spent two days in the province in August 1977 during her national jubilee tour . |
| 28 | He watched his aunt and Miss Williams wordlessly consult each other , but knew his aunt would do as she was told ; successful solicitor though she was , she was ten years younger than Miss Williams and , as she complained , totally intimidated by her as she had not been by anyone since her late headmistress . |
| 29 | West Germans who had not been to the East had no difficulty in believing them . |
| 30 | It must introduce new concepts , whether in mathematics , geography , physics or literature , concepts that are unfamiliar , and would have remained unknown to a child who had not been to school . |