Example sentences of "[vb past] not be [adv prt] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Melanie had not been down to the work-room since her very first morning ; she tried not to look at the partially assembled puppets , hanged and dismembered , on the walls . |
| 2 | Betty , who clearly had not washed , since she had not been down to the stream and there was no water in the cottage , padded about in her dressing-gown and slippers offering to slice the bread for breakfast . |
| 3 | He had not been back to Stowe since the day he left , almost seventeen years before . |
| 4 | When Douglas MacArthur returned to America , MacArthur had not been back to America since nineteen forty one this is ten years later , he 'd been running Japan in the meantime there was one of these huge ticker-tape parades in New York , he was the welcoming hero and President Truman was seen as the villain and some analysts argue that that decision , that single decision to sack MacArthur may well have cost Harry Truman the American presidency . |
| 5 | But it had n't been up to him . |
| 6 | I 'd just arrived , and I had n't been up to the village yet , or seen anyone . |
| 7 | And it would be yesterday morning again , and she had n't been up to Hunter Ward and eavesdropped on a conversation . |
| 8 | He had n't been back to Beirut in four years . |
| 9 | I had n't been back to Gallanach yet this year , had n't spoken to dad . |