Example sentences of "[verb] [not/n't] be [prep] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Relations between Egypt and Libya have been erratic since Colonel Gaddafi seized power 20 years ago , and he has not been to Egypt since the 1973 Arab-Israeli war . |
| 2 | But I incline to think that our grandfathers and grandmothers were in the right of it , and that no one can claim to understand Wordsworth who has not been to Hawkshead and Ambleside . |
| 3 | Rainbow has n't been to Goldie 's house in years . |
| 4 | She has n't been in Italy for a long time . |
| 5 | UNTIL Saturday we 'd not been to Meadowbank Stadium since July 1986 , the distinctly unlucky 13th Commonwealth Games . |
| 6 | 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 |
| 7 | I 'd not been in London long and those lesbian and gay friends I had were involved in squatting more than gay liberation . |
| 8 | Do n't be to Jacob , I 'll slap your lips off ! |
| 9 | Minter had not been at Breakspear , exactly or even approximately contemporary with Clare Mallender . |
| 10 | He had not been at Eton himself but when he played for the masters his volleying in the Field Game — the Eton form of football — was long remembered . |
| 11 | Sleep would have come if it had not been for Hugh 's tossing and moaning . |
| 12 | Sleep would have come if it had not been for Hugh 's tossing and moaning . |
| 13 | If it had not been for Adam 's quick eyes we might never have seen anything amiss . |
| 14 | If it had not been for Elizabeth taking her in off the streets and giving her a home , then Tilly 's own life would have been empty . |
| 15 | If it had not been for Agnes 's willingness to help , poor Miss Watson would have been unaided in her weakness . |
| 16 | ‘ If it had not been for Tracy , I would not be a professional footballer any more . |
| 17 | Perhaps I might have recognized my own hypocrisy , if it had not been for Richard 's behaviour in the next months . |
| 18 | He was , by one account , " shattered by grief and almost despair " after Vivien 's death and , if it had not been for John Hayward 's help and encouragement , would have retired into complete seclusion . |
| 19 | But if it had not been for Hillary Clinton 's TV performance and George Bush 's Japanese collapse , neither of them might now be ordering the removal vans . |
| 20 | If it had not been for Jeremy 's displays of speed , power and massive wheelies , backed up by a courageous Robert Holden , these races would have been pretty flat beer . |
| 21 | It was chairman Lord Rees 's first visit to LASMO Colombia , while chief executive Chris Greentree had not been to Bogota for five years . |
| 22 | I could also check that she had not been to Baskerville Hall on the night of Sir Charles ' death . |
| 23 | Most attention focuses here on shifts in Labour policy , on armaments and on the EC , to which may also be added another less publicised shift , namely on attitudes to the US : when Foot became leader of the Labour Party in 1979 , he had not been to Washington since the 1940s ; Kinnock and his associates were frequent , and informed , visitors . |
| 24 | I had not been to London for over twenty years , and my daughters had never been there . |
| 25 | The speaker had not been in Lesotho as a tourist but as the representative of a road-building company on a contract funded by the World Bank . |
| 26 | The humiliation was worse because it was so public , and it was a good thing that Annabel had not been in New York when the news broke , when gloating gossip writers had jammed Scott and Annabel 's home phones with their venomous questions . |
| 27 | Ajeya Singh returned to India and tried to refute the allegations , pointing out numerous flaws in the report , and offered his passport as evidence that he had not been in St Kitts when he was supposed to have signed documents opening the account with the now-defunct bank , the First Trust Corporation . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | In the burgh of Inverkeithing the effect would have been disastrous had not Captain Robert Cunningham 's money been lavishly dispensed among the councillors and magistrates , for as was to be expected , it had not been in Cunningham 's power to convince anyone in the town that he was under the protection of the Duke of Argyll . |
| 30 | 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 . |