Example sentences of "[pers pn] have n't been on " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ My parents and I had n't been on good terms for some time . |
| 2 | I had n't been on a ferry for years . |
| 3 | I had n't been on the open market for so long . |
| 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 I have n't been on one of our courses for a little while but I think that 's very similar to er |
| 6 | ’ I have n't been on the stage for a long time , so I 'm bound to be as nervous as a kitten before I go on . |
| 7 | to get up to the thirty five mile an hour you got ta go through all the five gears so you 're forever pa going like that erm and that made it worse so that last fortnight she has n't been on the bike and that last weekend when she went out she went because we was busy , she got her bike out and she went up to work one or two of her mates and then come home she said she 'd wished she had n't of gone up |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | You have n't been on the receiving end of Doreen 's barbs , but if they pierce Ling 's skin to the extent of causing him to leave your service you can put a ring round the fact that there will be … definite disruption . |
| 10 | Yeah , I know you do , I said , I said you have n't been on the bus already ? |
| 11 | The one(s) we have n't been on yet , and a Bob Dylan one |
| 12 | Probably they had n't been on stage more than half a dozen times before they were put under this microscope . |
| 13 | They would n't have put that on if they had n't been on drugs ! |
| 14 | Because they have n't been on the market for long , it 's not possible to say how well they 'll stand the test of time . |
| 15 | too but this one , he has n't been on nights . |
| 16 | I know for sure if he had n't been on the scene and it was only Colonel Vaughan and myself , I would most likely have said . |
| 17 | Those Simpsons , for instance , who knew the Foinmen no better than they knew Stonehenge , Dadda who bragged he had n't been on Vangmoor these twenty years . |
| 18 | If he had n't been on duty he would have been there . |