Example sentences of "have [not/n't] been [prep] [noun prp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Relations between Egypt and Libya have been erratic since Colonel Gaddafi seized power 20 years ago , and he has not been to Egypt since the 1973 Arab-Israeli war . |
| 2 | She has n't been in Italy for a long time . |
| 3 | It was chairman Lord Rees 's first visit to LASMO Colombia , while chief executive Chris Greentree had not been to Bogota for five years . |
| 4 | Most attention focuses here on shifts in Labour policy , on armaments and on the EC , to which may also be added another less publicised shift , namely on attitudes to the US : when Foot became leader of the Labour Party in 1979 , he had not been to Washington since the 1940s ; Kinnock and his associates were frequent , and informed , visitors . |
| 5 | I had not been to London for over twenty years , and my daughters had never been there . |
| 6 | The speaker had not been in Lesotho as a tourist but as the representative of a road-building company on a contract funded by the World Bank . |
| 7 | I 've not been to London in twelve years . ’ |
| 8 | She had n't been to Scotland for years . |
| 9 | He had n't been to London in years , and did n't wish to . |
| 10 | Till then I had felt I was beginning to get his measure ; first of all , his English , though excellent , was somehow not contemporary , more that of someone who had n't been in England for many years ; and then his whole appearance was foreign . |
| 11 | For instance , before the war , it was reported that he was heard to say over the telephone , in reply to an invitation from a leading London hostess , ‘ I should especially like to come , as I have not been to Hampstead since 1916 ’ . |
| 12 | Er two bedrooms , it was a number sixty six Street in those days , there were new houses built on where it is now , I have n't been into Palfry for years but er there were five houses in the row , there was a family named at one end , there was us my nan of course we were next to , next to us was Mrs , a Mr and Mrs , and then er that was one side of the entry the other side of the entry was a family named , they had quite a large family , there was er two or three of those married Mrs and then er then Mrs they were all relatives , cos there was no such thing as overcrowding in those days you got as many in as you could you see , there was , another was Mr and Mrs she was a daughter of Mrs there was Mrs and Mrs she was another daughter of Mrs , and then er there were , there was a , a young man he was a son of Mrs , the were I think show people originally cos they were a bit anyhow there were five houses down the yard we had n't got running water in the sink , we had a , a big stone pump pipe in at the bottom of the entry we all had to go and draw out our own drinking water from this one standpipe . |
| 13 | I mean I have n't been to Guildford for oh god I do n't know when I think probably with you the last time I went to Guildford . |
| 14 | For those who have n't been to Versailles for many years , there is now much more to see . |
| 15 | You have n't been in London for months , so it must be someone from round here . |