Example sentences of "n't [be] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She has n't been outside the refuge properly for two weeks . |
| 2 | Oh I have n't been to the cinema for ages it seems . |
| 3 | ‘ I did n't know ; he has n't been to the factory since I 've been here . ’ |
| 4 | We have n't been to the seaside for ages ! ’ |
| 5 | Some of the reasons they encountered for not losing weight included ‘ I have n't been to the toilet yet today ’ , ‘ I 've been arguing with my husband ’ , ‘ I absorb fat through my skin ’ , ( especially popular with people working in chip shops and serving school meals ) and ‘ it 's the cough medicine I 'm having for my sore throat ’ . |
| 6 | ‘ But … he has n't been to the cottage to see Anna . ’ |
| 7 | I ai n't been to the bar |
| 8 | I had n't been to the dump for a while , and it was about time I went to see what the good folk of Porteneil had thrown out . |
| 9 | Antony has n't been to the dentist for about six years ! |
| 10 | ‘ I have n't been to the boatyard yet . |
| 11 | But Gere , 41 , who has n't been to the shop on Sunset Strip , LA , since the ban , can send his model wife Cindy Crawford , to run his errands . |
| 12 | So I have n't been to the shop yet . |
| 13 | That 's right , it 's different for different people over there , I mean Mark over there who has n't been with the company very long erm , I mean , my existing calls I mean I , I know them sort of to , to drink with more or less you know , but |
| 14 | Despite his personal trauma , his professionalism would never have been in question — if it had n't been for the drink and drugs . |
| 15 | If it had n't been for the Yeti , I 'd never have met Malcolm McLaren or Johnie Rotten . |
| 16 | ‘ Of course , he 'd never have made it if it had n't been for the skill of our local doctor ’ |
| 17 | It had been skinned , neatly eviscerated , and would have looked like any carcase in a butcher 's shop if it had n't been for the head . |
| 18 | If it had n't been for the case , I think perhaps … ’ |
| 19 | If it had n't been for the help from her children she could n't have managed it . |
| 20 | None of it would have happened if it had n't been for the dog . |
| 21 | If it had n't been for the breastplate of blood , he could have been asleep , legs stuck out , head slumped forward , his woollen cap slipped over his right eye . |
| 22 | Behind his scowling manner was a kindly old man and if it had n't been for the arrival of a rather insipid little boy , she might never have known , nor might anyone else for that matter . |
| 23 | If it had n't been for the war , they 'd have retired him , but it was like everything else these days , all hands to the pumps . |
| 24 | If it had n't been for the colonel letting me have this cottage for a peppercorn rent , God knows where I 'd be . ’ |
| 25 | This may have been no shattering revelation for any man to make if it had n't been for the fact that in the hot steamy summer of ‘ 89 Lowe got himself laid by two girls in Atlanta , Georgia . |
| 26 | I do n't think I would have made quite so much impact , however , if it had n't been for the fact that , while they were carrying me round the church yelling , ‘ Aliens ! ’ 'Jesus Christ ! ’ and ‘ The snake cometh ! ’ the roof fell in . |
| 27 | He really was the most annoying , irritating man she had ever met , and if it had n't been for the fact that she knew he would carry out his threat and have her sacked she would have refused point-blank to go tonight . |
| 28 | If it had n't been for the fact that her stomach chose that precise moment to rumble loudly she might still have argued . |
| 29 | He spoke honestly , but more harshly than he would have done if it had n't been for the pain he carried . |
| 30 | ‘ You 'd never have known , if it had n't been for the tissue-typing , ’ Celia pointed out . |