Example sentences of "[not/n't] [been] [adj] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Henry , who had not been present at the death-bed , arrived for the funeral , he at first refused to take the oath but eventually , confronted by his father 's decomposing body , he agreed to do so . |
| 2 | Nor would Morse be forgetting the only man who had not been present at the meeting — the man who still lay with a wicked headache and a barely touched breakfast-tray beside him in Room 201 , to which room Shirley Brown had shepherdessed him when , after his unexplained absence , he had reeled into The Randolph the previous night . |
| 3 | The witness said that he had not been present at the meeting and had agreed that what was said then would not be recorded . |
| 4 | The pope acknowledges Oswiu 's conversion to orthodoxy and the Roman Easter , thanks him for the gifts he has sent but grieves that the bearer of these gifts had died in Rome , and regrets that he has not been able at the time of writing to find someone suitable to send as Wigheard 's replacement . |
| 5 | Basil had not been happy at the news of Dorian 's marriage plans . |
| 6 | it would n't of been put in if it had n't been accurate at the time |
| 7 | Charlie had stopped by to speak to Josie as he 'd said he would , but Lucy had n't been present at the time . |
| 8 | I think , because maybe you have n't been flexible at the outset , and all you 've ended up doing is scoring points off each other , |