Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] n't be [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 He was quite aware of my childish misdemeanours , but I had n't been to confession since I returned from Egypt , and I thought he would be profoundly shocked by what I should have to tell him .
2 I arrived from nowhere , I had n't been to drama school .
3 They could see by my record that I had n't been to prison before , did n't know the procedure .
4 It 's been hell shut up in that cottage with two women who would both have braved the weather to come up here to see how you were if I had n't been on hand to stop them . ’
5 I had n't been in bed all that long .
6 I heard him leaving because I had n't been in bed very long , and I heard him coming back because I had a bit of indigestion and I could n't sleep . ’
7 No , I had n't been in prison .
8 Well I do n't know whether you go home from boarding school , you probably just have a day off , I do n't know , I have n't been to boarding school .
9 I have n't been to bed yet , ’ he said , not taking the question any way at all .
10 Yes , but I have n't been to work today .
11 I have n't been in office systems for all that time .
12 Back in Fr Butler 's home parish of St Lachtain in Freshford , Kilkenny , Fr Seamus Henry said : ‘ I have n't been in touch with John for some months but I am supporting him in a pastoral way .
13 I have n't been in touch with the 's for ages .
14 why she has n't been to school she was in erm the .
15 I do n't know , she has n't been at school .
16 But she has n't been in touch with her colleagues for four months .
17 She had n't been to confession since the vision .
18 She experienced changeable moods and panic attacks — she had n't been on holiday for 20 years and could n't even go out to dinner for fear of not being able to get away .
19 She had n't been in love with Hugh .
20 " He wanted to know why you had n't been to class lately . "
21 You have n't been to school , ’ said Rachaela .
22 You have n't been in contact with German measles recently ? ’
23 Not after you have n't been in school all week .
24 If you have n't been in touch recently then do contact your GP and health visitor and discuss possibilities with them .
25 You have n't been in touch with me for an age , and I have wanted you since I saw you again at dinner .
26 did , did have and I 'll still say the only reason we have n't been at war with them is because of the army , arm
27 We have n't been in touch with her for years . ’
28 So that 's why we have n't , we have n't been in touch with you at all
29 Probably they had n't been on stage more than half a dozen times before they were put under this microscope .
30 Yeah , they had n't been in hospital for a few years , they have n't , I 've never known to go in .
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