Example sentences of "had n't be [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was quite aware of my childish misdemeanours , but I had n't been to confession since I returned from Egypt , and I thought he would be profoundly shocked by what I should have to tell him . |
| 2 | She had n't been to confession since the vision . |
| 3 | Lorton had n't been to confession for 25 years , but he remembered how it felt . |
| 4 | I arrived from nowhere , I had n't been to drama school . |
| 5 | " He wanted to know why you had n't been to class lately . " |
| 6 | They could see by my record that I had n't been to prison before , did n't know the procedure . |
| 7 | ‘ If it had n't been for Sleet , then what ? ’ |
| 8 | ‘ If it had n't been for Home Rule in the South , would Ulster have been ruled by Presbyterians in Belfast ? ’ |
| 9 | I had no intention just then of attempting such a thing , but as I lay awake that night I realised that if it had n't been for Lili I might have felt it necessary to attempt to describe to someone , anyone , what I knew of God and what he had asked of me . |
| 10 | His wife , who was an invalid at the time , told the Sun ‘ If it had n't been for state benefit and my family , Jade and I would have starved . ’ |
| 11 | If it had n't been for Desmond she would never have got through them . |
| 12 | If it had n't been for rock'n'roll , they 'd have dropped a bomb on someone else . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ He was a devoted husband and had n't been on holiday for two years , ’ said son Liam , of Oundle , Northants . |
| 15 | Probably they had n't been on stage more than half a dozen times before they were put under this microscope . |
| 16 | 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 . ’ |
| 17 | If he had n't been on duty he would have been there . |
| 18 | David had n't been on duty at the factory that afternoon and Rachel had wondered if he would suggest picking her up from her flat and taking her to the hospital , but he had n't , and his failure to do so only emphasised the coolness that was rapidly growing between them . |
| 19 | I had n't been in bed all that long . |
| 20 | Geoffrey Ryan had n't been in bed . |
| 21 | I heard him leaving because I had n't been in bed very long , and I heard him coming back because I had a bit of indigestion and I could n't sleep . ’ |
| 22 | A bit nervous at the start I was , I di had n't been in aeroplane , you know . |
| 23 | She had n't been in love with Hugh . |
| 24 | Yeah , they had n't been in hospital for a few years , they have n't , I 've never known to go in . |
| 25 | He had thought she 'd rally round even though he had n't been in touch for nearly a year . |
| 26 | No , I had n't been in prison . |
| 27 | He said he had n't been in trouble before . |