Example sentences of "[vb past] n't been [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had n't been round for days . |
| 2 | Ooh I thought he was going to , ooh I felt made me go cold and I I thought if , if I had n't been here on my own I 'd have been very tempted to go round and and say is there anything I can do . |
| 3 | Because I had n't been around much , I had n't been away from home |
| 4 | But it had n't been up to him . |
| 5 | I 'd just arrived , and I had n't been up to the village yet , or seen anyone . |
| 6 | And it would be yesterday morning again , and she had n't been up to Hunter Ward and eavesdropped on a conversation . |
| 7 | It was n't enough ; it had n't been enough for a long time . |
| 8 | I did n't know Julia had n't been in for a long while . |
| 9 | 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 |
| 10 | He had n't been back to Beirut in four years . |
| 11 | I had n't been back to Gallanach yet this year , had n't spoken to dad . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Had n't been out since this morning . |
| 14 | We had n't been out for ages and there was a good film on . ’ |
| 15 | I had n't been out for a long time , so I did it for the relaxation , really ! ’ |
| 16 | They had n't been out for any days since Adam had been at home . |
| 17 | The man had n't been out of the top four since 1980 but he did n't have the luck to win a title — in ‘ 86 he lost the crown when his helmet strap came undone . |
| 18 | And I had n't been out of bath long I says do n't knock on my bastard door again I said , I 'll wring your neck . |
| 19 | well I had n't been out from Monday till yesterday Sharon 's at the hospital now with the babe |
| 20 | But he had n't been out in the |
| 21 | ‘ Oh , Khan , I think if we had n't been so near the city , he would have burned the cart . |
| 22 | That he 'd seen no-one and had n't been anywhere near the clunch pit or the derelict car . |
| 23 | An hour had n't been much in the way of preparation time , and he 'd been forced to improvise . |
| 24 | There had n't been much in the way of affection to steal . |
| 25 | If everything had n't been quite in order he would n't , of course , have asked her . |
| 26 | He did n't love her , of course , not that she expected him to , but he had n't been backward in the lovemaking department , had he ? |
| 27 | ‘ He had n't been home for weeks , anyway … ’ |
| 28 | I had n't been there for more than a minute when the skipper bellowed : ‘ This is melanoma country , mate . |
| 29 | The couple next door said she had n't been there for several days . |
| 30 | 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 . |