Example sentences of "[pers pn] have not been for " in BNC.

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1 " I have n't been for some time .
2 Yes dear I went to erm , er the er holiday camp in October to erm , er with the Red Cross and I went with the , Charlie took me and I went in a car with a friend of mine we went to the Red Cross holiday in Patefield , but it poured of rain every day every day it poured of rain did n't October it was terrible , ever so cold , but we were well looked after you know and I enjoyed it and we had the wheelchairs to go around in on for the dancing , it was really great I thoroughly enjoyed it , I have n't been for two years I had n't , but I went like in October , cos you 're only allowed really every two years to go , that 's all you 're allowed really , but I thoroughly enjoyed it you know , it was nice
3 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
4 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
5 Cos I have n't been for two years since I 've been to that one !
6 You 're lucky , I have n't been for three days .
7 I have n't been for three years .
8 cos I have n't been for about a month , three weeks .
9 She has n't been for a long time .
10 It was her idea to come here each summer , but she has n't been for three years now .
11 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 .
12 She opened her eyes and was aware of being in her mother 's bed , where she had not been for over ten years .
13 But she brought them because it salved her conscience to bring something , and she had not been for two weeks now .
14 Kathy made two cups of tea and said firmly , ‘ You are n't yourself , Clare , and you have n't been for months . ’
15 She said no she said we have n't been for ages .
16 But we have n't been for months .
17 That 'll be nice cos we have n't been for a bit have we ?
18 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
19 Although a rich resource for trivialisation by the media , the women 's movement in the 1970s succeeded in making issues to do with women 's rights visible in ways they had not been for over sixty years .
20 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
21 I do n't like the cold snaps but they have n't been for long have they ?
22 They have not been for some time except to people who still remember The Beatles and The Animals .
23 Yes , but he has n't been for ages has he ?
24 It has n't been for three years . "
25 The complex of disparate elements comprising academic English was always unstable , though they might have stayed together longer if it had not been for the demands of the academic environment .
26 In 1959 Rank claimed that ‘ Britain would now have a healthy industry and a very successful market ’ if it had not been for the insensitivity of the Department of Trade .
27 They should remember that it would all have ended seven matches earlier if it had not been for an 88th-minute equaliser against Bashley on September 16 .
28 Even his magnum opus , Perestroika , written in the summer of 1987 , contained the amazing notion in its first edition that ‘ if it had not been for collectivisation , we could have died from hunger in the war ’ .
29 If it had not been for the extraordinary resilience of Hitler 's Wehrmacht and the fortitude of the German people , it would have done so .
30 Perhaps if it had not been for the Shakoor Rana affair the TCCB might have handled this quietly and sensibly by issuing a non-committal statement and letting the fuss die down .
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