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 . |