Example sentences of "not [been] [adv] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's not been away at all . |
| 2 | If the builders of this artificial paradise had not been around for several millennia — as Alex Bannen seemed to think — how come the flora and fauna had n't run riot and completely ruined the environment ? |
| 3 | It might not have been a very long missive , but it brought Aubrey into the room as if they had not been apart for two whole years . |
| 4 | Because of my knee cartilage operation , I started the 1990–91 season having done no downhill training at all during the autumn , a situation which I had not been in since 1980 . |
| 5 | But they not see Darius because he not been in since five o'clock . |
| 6 | Even such an exalted pedigree as this , though , has not been enough for some of Britain 's big stores . |
| 7 | After three weeks at his new contract , Cole has not been home before 8.30 in the evening once , so the idea that all contract catering chefs work nine-to-five is a fallacy . |
| 8 | She has not been out of this room for six months . |
| 9 | She had let her overwhelming desire feed her imagination ; had read something into his words , his looks , his actions , which had not been there at all . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ‘ Old Mr Fiddle has not been there for some time , Rose , ’ said Dagmar from the door . |
| 12 | We have still not been given any kind of direct word , we 've not been back in direct communication with them . |
| 13 | It seems to me that anyone attracted to practising psychology or psychotherapy or psychiatry has not been so without some needs of their own . |
| 14 | There 's an oil stain beneath it , but I bet it has n't been on since last February . |
| 15 | Nothing else has changed ; I have n't been here since that day a week after Clare died , and it had the same muddily washed-out look about it then . |
| 16 | When it , and the Government can produce fifty pieces of legislation affecting local government since nineteen seventy nine , I have n't been here since nineteen seventy nine thankfully , so I have to analyze everything , but they always landed our the ma the major ones and , so for example erm , it was the Local government Unit that produced the initial response of the Poll Tax , what strategy the Council should adopt er , the Council wo n't distance approach , we wanted to make it clear that the Poll Tax was a Government erm , it was a Government initiative and it was being forcedly on us and that was the way , did that effect it , that was a guided and then there was the nineteen eight nine local Government Housing Act , which I 'm sure many of you . |
| 17 | You have n't been here for last week did you ? |
| 18 | ‘ He has n't been here for some time , ’ Hari answered . |
| 19 | No they have n't been here at all . |
| 20 | ‘ I do n't understand it , he has n't been here in ten years ! |
| 21 | You 've just said you have n't been around for several weeks . |
| 22 | One song reveals the damaging influence on their minds of their sojourn in London : ‘ Soccer Fan ’ is a peon of praise to Everton 's midfield cruncher , Norman Whiteside. l CURIOSITY KILLED THE CAT Get Ahead ( Mercury ) You can tell that Curiosity Killed The Cat have n't been around for some time . |
| 23 | He has n't been home for twelve months |
| 24 | They had n't been out for any days since Adam had been at home . |
| 25 | We have n't been out at all . |
| 26 | been out , I have n't been out since New Year 's Eve . |
| 27 | Had n't been out since this morning . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | have n't been there for many years |
| 30 | I had n't been there for more than a minute when the skipper bellowed : ‘ This is melanoma country , mate . |