Example sentences of "[verb] not [been] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bull has now failed to score for seven games but Turner said : ‘ There is not a striker in the country who has not been through that sort of spell . ’ |
| 2 | If the client has not been through this process the search brief should be broadened to include this . |
| 3 | This has not been at all easy . |
| 4 | All mechanical parts seem in very good order and the vehicle has not been in any accidents . |
| 5 | As everyone knows , the insurance industry 's recent experience of its very own crisis scenario has led to , if a particular line of cover has not been among those withdrawn because of poor claims records , dramatic increases in premiums . |
| 6 | There is never a month that I am not overseas , and has n't been for many years — long before I achieved my present position . |
| 7 | It has n't been in the , I cover , but I have some information you gave me , it has n't been in that at all , mm . |
| 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 | Although Marie said nothing , she had not been at all worried about Gazzer getting hurt . |
| 10 | Leila had not been at all pleased to find she was living under the same roof as Zambia Crevecoeur . |
| 11 | It had not been at all like that . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | His slumber had not been at all restful . |
| 14 | So far though the viewers had not been at all suitable . |
| 15 | But things had not been at all what they 'd seemed — though she was bound by her promise never to reveal the truth . |
| 16 | Nathan had not been on enough flights to be anything but excited , and he was going north of the Arctic Circle for the first time . |
| 17 | ‘ owing to the presence of which ’ This point is normally covered in any witness statement that might be available , viz. ‘ I saw four vehicles were involved etc. ’ or ‘ if it had not been for that vehicle the accident would not have happened ’ . |
| 18 | ‘ Sir , ’ he said to the court , ‘ I would be a dead man by now if it had not been for this gentleman . ’ |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | He had not been to any of the social functions advertised — it would have seemed like living his life backwards to enter voluntarily a church hall full of women and cups of tea — he could see his mother at the urn and himself as a boy handing round those very cups . |
| 21 | She had not been in that position . |
| 22 | The proportions reported to have had difficulty with various aspects of caring for themselves ( getting in and out of a bath or shower , dressing and undressing , going to the toilet , washing and shaving , feeding themselves , making a hot drink , or needing help at night ) for a year or more before death was 87 per cent of those who had been in a residential home for a year or more , 60 per cent of those in for a shorter time and 25 per cent of those who had not been in such a home at all . |
| 23 | She would have liked Nice — if she had not been in such a hurry to be in Paris . |
| 24 | ‘ Why , my lord , when we were left alone — and I think if they had not been in such haste to move on they would not have left a man of us alive to tell the tale — we first tended the worst hurt , and took counsel , and decided we must take the news on to Ramsey , and also back here to Shrewsbury . |
| 25 | Certainly he had not been in such close proximity to a pretty young girl for as long as he could remember . |
| 26 | She had not been kissed for over two years and it was magical ; she was feeling it deeply , listening with everything in her but not remembering , because other kisses had not been like this . |
| 27 | ‘ I 've not been in this part of the forest . |
| 28 | I would have died too if it had n't been for that telegraph pole . ’ |
| 29 | And I 'll tell you somethin' else : your mother would n't have died if it had n't been for that man . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ If it had n't been for that you 'd never have found us . ’ |