Example sentences of "n't [been] [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Choose an open , sunny site where brassicas have n't been grown for a few years . |
| 2 | I 'm dying to try out my hairdressing skills and I 've got these two absolutely sumptuous dresses which have n't been worn for ages . |
| 3 | With two broken legs he 'd have starved to death if he had n't been cared for … now he can look forward to a rather more chirpy 1992 . |
| 4 | ‘ Primary ’ rainforest is an area that has n't been disturbed for hundreds of years and has reached a state of mature complexity ; it is also known as virgin forest . |
| 5 | But in recent years we noticed that some candidates were writing to us — or their employers were writing — to say that certificates had n't been received for modules completed one or more years previously . |
| 6 | Her British certificate has n't been renewed for twenty years . ’ |
| 7 | Two witnesses , his sister , Mrs Rosalie Temple , and a friend , Mr James Robson , said that Mr Smith was an old-fashioned farmer living in an old-fashioned world — a house which had n't been altered for decades and which still depended on spring water . |
| 8 | Mademoiselle from Armentières … has n't been kissed for forty years … has n't been kissed … |
| 9 | If it 's something silly , that they have n't been trained for , but most jobs you can delegate and they 'll do it just as well as you . |
| 10 | She had n't been prepared for the way poetry came into this fitting together of parts , Shall I believe that unsubstantial Death is amorous , and that the lean abhorrèd monster keeps Thee here in dark to be his paramour , she recited in her head , as O'Hara climbed on top and humped her beneath the rude unshaded bulb . |
| 11 | I felt foolish that I had n't been prepared for the fact that his skin would be so bad or his teeth so deteriorated . |
| 12 | The girl had n't been born into this archiac world ; she had n't been prepared for a lover who was demanding and possessive , as Nicolo must have been . |
| 13 | So he went up and had a scan and they s they checked it and of course when they checked the scan they noticed that his kid one of his kidneys had n't been functioning for a long time . |
| 14 | Which made me think of Springsteen and the fact that he had n't been fed for nearly twenty-four hours . |
| 15 | The silver has n't been polished for weeks . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ They have n't been involved for quite a while so you could n't really expect them to be picked , ’ said Thorstvedt , who is likely to be Norway 's last line of defence on October 14 . |
| 17 | They have n't been moved for quite a long time , and it 's funny how buildings which claim to have extraordinary flexibility sometimes turn out to be really quite rigid . |
| 18 | Oh I 'm gon na start going , I have n't been swimming for that long and I 've been saying off and on oh I must go , I must go , but when it 's so cold outside you do n't feel like coming out with all wet hair and all that |
| 19 | That has n't been touched for over fifteen years . ’ |
| 20 | And tidying up after removal and spring cleaning homes that have n't been touched for years are all part of a normal day 's work . |
| 21 | It has n't been touched for hundreds of years . |
| 22 | ‘ These schools have long been a closed shop and many have n't been inspected for ages . |
| 23 | I was logging the cache petrol bombs which had n't been inspected for evaporation recently when the phone went . |
| 24 | Alison was n't keen to take hers , but I managed to persuade her , pointing out that since I had n't been asked for any more money these were almost certainly aspirins . |
| 25 | if arrangements had n't been made for her to go to Australia might be , she has n't been may have you know , she still had n't been to the doctors |
| 26 | The new operating systems have n't been recompiled for Intel 's Pentium — Santa Cruz says it would have to support two product lines otherwise — and sales on 80386 systems still make up half its business . |
| 27 | The new operating systems have n't been recompiled for Intel 's Pentium — SCO says it 'd have to support two product lines otherwise — and sales on 80386 platforms still make up half its business . |
| 28 | Russell was later told he had n't been selected for the world cup . |
| 29 | The Lombard brothers and Mike Waterlane , however , scored a goal apiece to put Rutshire into Sunday 's final against the mighty South Sussex , who had n't been beaten for three years . |
| 30 | ‘ He had n't been beaten for a long time , and was very confident so I think defeat came as a bit of a shock . |