Example sentences of "[pron] had not [been] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I wish I had n't been to Zaire . |
| 2 | I arrived from nowhere , I had n't been to drama school . |
| 3 | They could see by my record that I had n't been to prison before , did n't know the procedure . |
| 4 | He was quite aware of my childish misdemeanours , but I had n't been to confession since I returned from Egypt , and I thought he would be profoundly shocked by what I should have to tell him . |
| 5 | I had n't been to the mere for a week or two so did n't really know if the bream would still be moving or not . |
| 6 | I had n't been to the dump for a while , and it was about time I went to see what the good folk of Porteneil had thrown out . |
| 7 | No I had n't been to the Far East unfortunately . |
| 8 | I had n't been to the Far East . |
| 9 | I had n't been over there . |
| 10 | ‘ My parents and I had n't been on good terms for some time . |
| 11 | I had n't been on a ferry for years . |
| 12 | I had n't been on the open market for so long . |
| 13 | It 's been hell shut up in that cottage with two women who would both have braved the weather to come up here to see how you were if I had n't been on hand to stop them . ’ |
| 14 | as if I had n't been through enough today , I 've just been dubbed your plaything of the week — ’ |
| 15 | I had n't been near the place for four years . |
| 16 | I had n't been in the force very long and my sergeant met me and said , ‘ That chimney 's smoking . ’ |
| 17 | There was much competition during the war as to who could come up with the best bomb story , and my mother had a great time telling this one to all the aunties , especially as it was only due to her nagging that I had n't been in my bed at the time . |
| 18 | I had n't been in a very good mood when I started out on this journey . |
| 19 | I had n't been in bed all that long . |
| 20 | Because I had n't been in a band for so long , there were plenty to choose from … |
| 21 | No , I had n't been in prison . |
| 22 | If I had n't been in that bar at that time , perhaps all this would have happened to somebody else . |
| 23 | I heard him leaving because I had n't been in bed very long , and I heard him coming back because I had a bit of indigestion and I could n't sleep . ’ |
| 24 | I had n't been in your shop two minutes before she asked me my birth date and told me her hobby is astrology . ’ |
| 25 | Well that 's because I had n't been in there and you can be |
| 26 | Wright said : ‘ I recognised that , in the previous two games , I had not been at my best . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | I had not been to London for over twenty years , and my daughters had never been there . |