Example sentences of "[verb] n't been [adv] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He has n't been downstairs for over five years . |
| 2 | He has n't been round for a while , Andy , has he ? |
| 3 | And I wo n't spare a minute 's thought for the fact that Piers has n't been around for the entire day , and lord only knows what he 's getting up to with Nicole . |
| 4 | Well of course it 's not on , it has n't been on for weeks . |
| 5 | ‘ He has n't been here for some time , ’ Hari answered . |
| 6 | His father has n't been here for years . |
| 7 | Er , yes that was David , Robert has n't , Robert 's coming next weekend , but he has n't been here for a few weeks |
| 8 | A reader called to say she had a postcard dated 1910 which showed the fire with a notice saying : ‘ This fire has n't been out for over 200 years . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ He has n't been out for days , ’ another boy said . |
| 10 | Mm and old Bob down the road , Bob , he has n't been in for about the same sort of time this 'll be his fourth week wo n't it ? |
| 11 | Johnson said : ‘ It just has n't been there for me . |
| 12 | No it has n't been there for a little while British National Corpus I 've been carrying it around with me |
| 13 | But she has n't been there for a few weeks now so I think she might be ill . |
| 14 | She has n't been there for about a month . |
| 15 | He has n't been home for twelve months |
| 16 | He had n't been round for days . |
| 17 | It was n't enough ; it had n't been enough for a long time . |
| 18 | I did n't know Julia had n't been in for a long while . |
| 19 | you know , it is just so frustrating , you know and er some of these kids he said and the language they use , one girl came in , she had n't been in for three or four days , he had n't met her and he said hello you must be such and such er |
| 20 | And that misuse of the aerosol sprays is probably responsible for about three thousand five hundred deaths , but I think you 've got to put that into perspective , first of all against the six thousand people who are killed on the roads every year in Britain , and you 've also got to set it against our estimate that there are more than a quarter of a million people alive today who would have died in childhood if it had n't been specifically for the advantage of being able to take medicines , anti-biotics generally in their childhood to keep them alive . |
| 21 | We had n't been out for ages and there was a good film on . ’ |
| 22 | I had n't been out for a long time , so I did it for the relaxation , really ! ’ |
| 23 | They had n't been out for any days since Adam had been at home . |
| 24 | ‘ He had n't been home for weeks , anyway … ’ |
| 25 | I had n't been there for more than a minute when the skipper bellowed : ‘ This is melanoma country , mate . |
| 26 | The couple next door said she had n't been there for several days . |
| 27 | It is n't as if the chances had n't been there for Leeds to win away last term : Oldham 2–0 up with 5 minutes to go , Sheff . |
| 28 | Well I had n't been there for ages ! |
| 29 | ‘ I have n't been up for a while , ’ her father said , implying a total absence of mind , and some of body , too . |
| 30 | I do n't know I have n't been up for years . |