Example sentences of "[verb] n't been for a " in BNC.

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1 She has n't been for a long time .
2 ‘ He 's not married , has n't been for a long time .
3 Has n't been for a few years .
4 And I think her husband will probably die before she will but erm he cos he 's older than she is even , but erm and he 's not very well , has n't been for a long time .
5 This month David Savage discusses the importance of mistakes within the workshop , and looks at a finish he would otherwise not now use if it had n't been for a disaster
6 The Flying Scot would probably have made the move before now — if it had n't been for a pact Laughton made when he left Widnes sixteen months ago .
7 Fortune having smiled on them , and I mean if it had n't been for a lump of expanded foam out of one of the life boats that had blown up at , if it had n't come floating past me , I mean I would have been a goner as well , but I got hold of that .
8 She said she had n't been for a while and erm then she said they did n't really know , they wondered how she was gon na get on in the water .
9 they have n't been for a long time them two so they 're cast off , well they must of been they 've had to join
10 I used to be , but I have n't been for a long while I used to we ca n't say that I was there last year but
11 No , sure , have n't been for a long time have you ?
12 Have n't been for a long time , no , I 'm not more
13 I was just gon na say , some sometimes , I have n't been for a bit mind you , oh , well the last time I went , sometimes I go to Wales to Blaenau Ffestiniog or to congregation
14 That 'll be nice cos we have n't been for a bit have we ?
15 what your look , same with your letter forage , I think mostly we were taught letter formation , which we have n't been for a few years now
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