Example sentences of "they [verb] [not/n't] [been] [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er but er they 've not been studied a great deal by |
| 2 | They 'd both been working for nearly two years , and all that time they had n't been paid a penny . |
| 3 | It was obvious from the way the staring eyes blinked , both Pairs together , that they had not been expecting an answer . |
| 4 | The drivers sought a declaration that the ban was invalid arguing , inter alia , that the ban was in breach of natural justice , since they had not been given an opportunity to make representations before the ban was imposed . |
| 5 | They had not been shown a repeat of the film — they had merely watched it in their minds . |
| 6 | Some have worked at Bentley pianos for forty years , but they have n't been offered a penny in redundancy pay . |
| 7 | Even when they have not been beating a religious drum , Western historians have been censured for their myopia in treating modern science as if it were an exclusively Western phenomenon . |
| 8 | If one of them had not been riding a white horse I would never have noticed them . |