Example sentences of "not [vb infin] been [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Forty eight and and presumably many of the people who are perhaps seventy drawing pensions , they may not have even paid in thirty years themselves , I mean they may be many of them may not have been around for that period of time . |
| 2 | Smiling to himself , he looked idly across the road and saw Francesca , who should not have been back till Thursday . |
| 3 | In the end we had to settle for a hurried and depressing buffet in the North British Hotel , with a menu which would not have been out of place at a Sunday-school picnic . |
| 4 | On stage , however , corseted and hypertense , sounds would emerge which would not have been out of place in the nest of a fledgeling sedge-warbler . |
| 5 | A very confident performance , which would not have been out of place as a university seminar , but which was not , perhaps , geared to this audience . |