Example sentences of "n't [been] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ I have n't been to bed yet , ’ he said , not taking the question any way at all . |
2 | Dad has n't been to bed yet Carla . |
3 | He has n't been to bed yet . |
4 | Dad has n't been to bed yet . |
5 | Well I do n't know whether you go home from boarding school , you probably just have a day off , I do n't know , I have n't been to boarding school . |
6 | ‘ Who has n't been to school this term ? ’ asked Sam . |
7 | ‘ You have n't been to school , ’ said Rachaela . |
8 | why she has n't been to school she was in erm the . |
9 | Yes , but I have n't been to work today . |
10 | 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 . |
11 | She had n't been to confession since the vision . |
12 | Lorton had n't been to confession for 25 years , but he remembered how it felt . |
13 | I arrived from nowhere , I had n't been to drama school . |
14 | " He wanted to know why you had n't been to class lately . " |
15 | They could see by my record that I had n't been to prison before , did n't know the procedure . |
16 | 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 . |
17 | 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 . ’ |
18 | ‘ If it had n't been for Sleet , then what ? ’ |
19 | ‘ If it had n't been for Home Rule in the South , would Ulster have been ruled by Presbyterians in Belfast ? ’ |
20 | If it had n't been for Desmond she would never have got through them . |
21 | If it had n't been for rock'n'roll , they 'd have dropped a bomb on someone else . |
22 | But I saw , I went into town yesterday , have n't been into town and I saw er , I 'm just going up past the job centre I had to go to council about me money and I thought well I suppose I ought to make an effort and look in the job centre cos I , I ai n't done because I 've been in catering all the while |
23 | I do n't know , she has n't been at school . |
24 | Well , just generally , we have n't restricted recruiting of care staff , in other words , unless we know there 's a decision been made about a residential establishment which there has n't been at present . |
25 | did , did have and I 'll still say the only reason we have n't been at war with them is because of the army , arm |
26 | 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 . |
27 | ‘ He was a devoted husband and had n't been on holiday for two years , ’ said son Liam , of Oundle , Northants . |
28 | Probably they had n't been on stage more than half a dozen times before they were put under this microscope . |
29 | Denis , who has n't been on stage for decades , has n't a nerve in his body . |
30 | The sarcophagus , they told me , is not one of the Museum 's more interesting possessions , and has n't been on display since 1904 . |