Example sentences of "n't [be] for a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | She said she had n't been for a while and erm then she said they did n't really know , they wondered how she was gon na get on in the water . |
2 | The Flying Scot would probably have made the move before now — if it had n't been for a pact Laughton made when he left Widnes sixteen months ago . |
3 | I was just gon na say , some sometimes , I have n't been for a bit mind you , oh , well the last time I went , sometimes I go to Wales to Blaenau Ffestiniog or to congregation |
4 | That 'll be nice cos we have n't been for a bit have we ? |
5 | Fortune having smiled on them , and I mean if it had n't been for a lump of expanded foam out of one of the life boats that had blown up at , if it had n't come floating past me , I mean I would have been a goner as well , but I got hold of that . |
6 | This month David Savage discusses the importance of mistakes within the workshop , and looks at a finish he would otherwise not now use if it had n't been for a disaster |
7 | And it wo n't be for a while . |
8 | ‘ But that should n't be for a while , they 're not calling the twenties up yet … |
9 | I 've told her I 'll see her at the funeral , though I suppose it wo n't be for a while . |
10 | But it wo n't be for a while |