Example sentences of "n't be for a " in BNC.
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1 | She has n't been for a long time . |
2 | 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 |
3 | 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 . |
4 | ‘ He 's not married , has n't been for a long time . |
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 | they have n't been for a long time them two so they 're cast off , well they must of been they 've had to join |
7 | I used to be , but I have n't been for a long while I used to we ca n't say that I was there last year but |
8 | 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 . |
9 | No , sure , have n't been for a long time have you ? |
10 | Have n't been for a long time , no , I 'm not more |
11 | 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 |
12 | That 'll be nice cos we have n't been for a bit have we ? |
13 | what your look , same with your letter forage , I think mostly we were taught letter formation , which we have n't been for a few years now |
14 | Has n't been for a few years . |
15 | And I think her husband will probably die before she will but erm he cos he 's older than she is even , but erm and he 's not very well , has n't been for a long time . |
16 | And it wo n't be for a while . |
17 | ‘ But that should n't be for a while , they 're not calling the twenties up yet … |
18 | I 've told her I 'll see her at the funeral , though I suppose it wo n't be for a while . |
19 | But er I mean er she , she was in a perfect position to do it , I mean she 'd been retired a long time , she was in good health and obviously an annuity would be perfect for her er where it would n't be for a younger person , so I mean life annuities not got . |
20 | If we do get together , it 's certainly wo n't be for a 50–50 purse . ’ |
21 | But it wo n't be for a while |