Example sentences of "[pron] have not [be] [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 I pointed out that I had not been to the polytechnic , but had been to Durham University on a scholarship — only the second the force had been awarded .
2 So , I had not been in the house an hour when he sent three of the Six to me .
3 I 've not been on the moon , ’ he added , without any irony , simply as a statement of fact .
4 I 've not been to the new grounds at Walsall and Scunthorpe , Maidstone 's ground , or covered a League match at Barnet .
5 Anyway , I 've not been in a black cab in years .
6 I 've not been in the country long .
7 I 've not been in the situation ‘ Little Thing ’ describes , but everyone 's gon na assume I have .
8 But of course I 've not been in the market you , you know .
9 I have not been in the House of Lords very long , so on the heritage front , I have n't had the opportunity to do a great deal yet .
10 I have not been in the House as long as the hon. Gentleman and I defer to his experience .
11 An untitled drip painting by Jackson Pollock which has not been on the market since 1949 is estimated at $1–1.5 million ( £666,000–1,000,000 ) and will be the highlight of this sale of contemporary art .
12 High points of the show are large-format charcoal and red chalk drawings from 1898–99 , a number of landscapes of the area around Worpswede , and a horizontal format variation on the theme of ‘ Child Blowing a Horn ’ , which has not been on the market since the 1930s .
13 He told the magistrates the licence was for a car which had not been on the road for nine months .
14 The three sets which have not been to the Joint Committee come under the negative procedure and are consequential upon the main affirmative orders .
15 The intense moments of pain and fear that gripped me were too remote to be understood by anyone who has not been through a similar experience .
16 Its reaching out to the people who 've not been through the processes that we 've been through and are still attached to ideas that are in essence racist , imperialist , sexist , heterosexist , and how we , nevertheless , draw those people into activity .
17 You 've not been near a phonebox or a letterbox .
18 The scuffle at the Club Des Esseintes aside , she had not been in a fight since elementary school .
19 He also contradicted Mrs Mandela 's alibi by saying she had not been in the Orange Free State on the day Stompie and three other youths were assaulted at her Soweto house .
20 West Germans who had not been to the East had no difficulty in believing them .
21 In 1979 , the Cabinet of twentytwo contained only seven ministers ( Edwards , St John-Stevas , Younger , Nott , Biffen , Carlisle , and Maude ) who had not been in a previous Cabinet .
22 Only one symptom , a persistent cough , was reported more often for those who had not been in a residential home — 24 per cent compared with 10 per cent of those who had spent some time in such a home .
23 Taking all types of respondents together their ratings were similar for people who had not been in a residential home at all and those who had been in one for a year or more , while those who had only spent part of the last year of their lives in a residential home were generally felt to have had a worse quality of life : for 39 per cent of them it was rated as poor compared with 27 per cent of the other two groups .
24 Sickened by the endemic one-upmanship of a political system founded on resistance nomenklatura ( Pompidou was one of the few politicians who had not been in the resistance ) , he spoke of the need to look to the future and forget the time when ‘ Frenchmen did not love one another . ’
25 ‘ Those who had not been in the banqueting hall banded together and created an Emergency Council . ’
26 There can not be many Catholics in Halifax who have not been to an event at St. Mary 's !
27 ‘ I have some shopping to do and you have not been to the town at all .
28 Although you have not been in the manager 's seat very long , you have done nothing to alter my original opinion that your appointment makes about as much sense as the Charge of the Light Brigade .
29 in green and black and silver , the emeralds of Manjiku burst like stars in the bubbles on her limbs , and she 's amazed they 're so beautiful , for she 's not been in the water at night before .
30 They 've not been in a flat
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