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 here for some time , ’ Hari answered . |
| 3 | His father has n't been here for years . |
| 4 | 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 |
| 5 | Johnson said : ‘ It just has n't been there for me . |
| 6 | No it has n't been there for a little while British National Corpus I 've been carrying it around with me |
| 7 | But she has n't been there for a few weeks now so I think she might be ill . |
| 8 | She has n't been there for about a month . |
| 9 | He has n't been home for twelve months |
| 10 | It was n't enough ; it had n't been enough for a long time . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | ‘ He had n't been home for weeks , anyway … ’ |
| 13 | I had n't been there for more than a minute when the skipper bellowed : ‘ This is melanoma country , mate . |
| 14 | The couple next door said she had n't been there for several days . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Well I had n't been there for ages ! |
| 17 | Then she said , quietly , ‘ Yes , although I have n't been here for a long time . |
| 18 | I have n't been here for years , although the land belongs to me . |
| 19 | ‘ You have n't been here for weeks — all the time I was ill . |
| 20 | ‘ I have n't been here for very long . |
| 21 | I have n't been here for ages and ages ! |
| 22 | You have n't been here for last week did you ? |
| 23 | Look out for companies who have n't been around for long : they could be out of business just as soon . |
| 24 | We have n't been together for three months . |
| 25 | ‘ Friday nights because we have n't been together for four nights , Sundays because we know there are another four ahead of us , and … why Saturdays ? ’ |
| 26 | You have n't been there for ages . |
| 27 | A furniture shop of some sort there where the used to be the Spar shop I think , many years ago was n't it like a have n't been there for , probably about since , Morris 's day you see , and that service station . |
| 28 | I have n't been there for oh I 'm always going down there for petrol now . |
| 29 | I have n't been there for over a , a year or more I think last time I was there |
| 30 | have n't been there for many years |