Example sentences of "[not/n't] [been] [verb] for the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 The official turnout was 74 per cent , although there were claims that many voters had not been registered for the ballot .
2 But she had not been prepared for the intensity of her response .
3 There is no point in simply applying lower speed limits on residential roads if the drivers have not been prepared for the fact that they must slow down .
4 Nathan had not been prepared for the bus trip into and out of the town and the long walk through the snow to a campsite either .
5 I had not been prepared for the volume of decisions I had to make .
6 At some point during my stay in Wolverton there arose a rumour that the church of St James in the neighbouring railway-workers ' village of New Bradwell had not been consecrated for the performance of weddings .
7 Mr Pearse said : ‘ Do not think that we have not been fighting for the price of Midland shares that we have just received .
8 We will probably have to prove that we have not been paid for the consignment .
9 As far as he knows Women in Love has not been adapted for the stage before , but already it is causing much interest from other theatres and companies .
10 Lawrence was elected British president , and discharged his difficult task with a calmness , courtesy , and firmness which won universal approval , even from the defendants , the soldiers among whom thought that their problems were appreciated by one who had gained the DSO as a gunner officer in World War I. Praise was also given by the British alternate judge , Sir Norman ( later first Baron ) Birkett [ q.v. ] , who was secretly resentful that he had not been chosen for the post .
11 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 .
12 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 .
13 Russell was later told he had n't been selected for the world cup .
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