Example sentences of "[pers pn] have not [been] there [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'd walked into the boathouse and tried to pick up an envelope and the floor had given way beneath him and a piece of beam was missing , and if I had n't been there with him he would certainly have drowned in the dock , impaled on something lurking beneath the surface . |
| 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 | I had n't been there from the age of seven without learning what went down in Roundhay . |
| 5 | I had n't been there by daylight before and my bibliophile heart had lifted at the sight of those tall glass cabinets , shelf over shelf of finely bound volumes , each of them a door on the possible . |
| 6 | I have n't been there for oh I 'm always going down there for petrol now . |
| 7 | I have n't been there for over a , a year or more I think last time I was there |
| 8 | I mean , there could I mean I think the House of Commons is now some way past in in my life in the sense I have n't been there since er June . |
| 9 | And though I have not been there at the right season for many years , for all I know they live there still — a small , brown , undemonstrative little butterfly , not immediately noticed by an untrained eye . |
| 10 | I have not been there since yesterday morning . ’ |
| 11 | But she has n't been there for a few weeks now so I think she might be ill . |
| 12 | She has n't been there for about a month . |
| 13 | The couple next door said she had n't been there for several days . |
| 14 | Perhaps she had not been there at all , in the street , but a phantom instead had taken her place , looking like her , feeling like her inside too , but not her , for she , Rosa , had been in her bed , dreaming . |
| 15 | You have n't been there for ages . |
| 16 | I 'm gon na get some and take some down to grandma 's grave so I fe , I feel really guilty we 've not been there since Christmas eve ! |
| 17 | You bozos do n't seem to realise it but if we had n't been there at that Florence Conference , would not be in the leading position it currently holds with the commission to guarantee further funds and to create a positive role for Britain in Europe with the commission to wuk look at the issues that are gon na come up in 1993 . |
| 18 | No it has n't been there for a little while British National Corpus I 've been carrying it around with me |
| 19 | It had not been there during Mass . |
| 20 | Addressed ‘ Charles Paris ’ , he was sure it had n't been there at the interval . |