Example sentences of "[pers pn] have [not/n't] been [adv] for " in BNC.

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1 I had n't been out for a long time , so I did it for the relaxation , really ! ’
2 I had n't been there for more than a minute when the skipper bellowed : ‘ This is melanoma country , mate .
3 Well I had n't been there for ages !
4 Then she said , quietly , ‘ Yes , although I have n't been here for a long time .
5 I have n't been here for years , although the land belongs to me .
6 I have n't been here for very long .
7 I have n't been here for ages and ages !
8 I have n't been up for a while , ’ her father said , implying a total absence of mind , and some of body , too .
9 I do n't know I have n't been up for years .
10 Cos you know she usually do if I have n't been round for a while she 'll say oh what 's the matter , have I done something wrong or why you have n't been round or Perhaps she thinks well it 's too far to come .
11 ‘ Why do n't you tell me about it ? — Sorry I have n't been around for the last couple of days .
12 I have n't been there for oh I 'm always going down there for petrol now .
13 I have n't been there for over a , a year or more I think last time I was there
14 But she has n't been there for a few weeks now so I think she might be ill .
15 She has n't been there for about a month .
16 You 've not been on for a while have you ?
17 Good you 've not been on for a while either have you ?
18 The couple next door said she had n't been there for several days .
19 you know , it is just so frustrating , you know and er some of these kids he said and the language they use , one girl came in , she had n't been in for three or four days , he had n't met her and he said hello you must be such and such er
20 She knew she had been dismissed from Algox because she had not been up for grabs .
21 ‘ Since you had not been here for a fortnight , ’ he said , ‘ I assumed that you had completed your enquiries . ’
22 You 've just said you have n't been around for several weeks .
23 You have n't been here for weeks — all the time I was ill .
24 You have n't been here for last week did you ?
25 But the they give it you at the end of the quarter , even if you have n't been in for a quarter .
26 You have n't been there for ages .
27 We had n't been out for ages and there was a good film on . ’
28 We have n't been together for three months .
29 ‘ Friday nights because we have n't been together for four nights , Sundays because we know there are another four ahead of us , and … why Saturdays ? ’
30 We have n't been out for a drink us since , I think last time we went out New Year 's Day
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