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Example sentences for "not been"

  • Had he not been hardy as well as fearless he must have died.

  • Ye've not been used to sarvant's wark, I see by your hands," she remarked.

  • Of me, only, were the convicts dubious, for I was the one man who had not been in the plot.

  • And against his own best interests Pilate would have saved Jesus, as I would have, had it not been that no other than Jesus himself willed that he was not to be saved.

  • The Warden was so angry that it would have been ludicrous to me had I not been in so desperate plight.

  • Mihail Vassilievitch, you've not been to see me before.

  • The fact that the children had not been at the sacrament for nearly a year worried her extremely, and with the full approval and sympathy of Marya Philimonovna she decided that this should take place now in the summer.

  • How is it Anna Pavlovna's not been to see us for so long?

  • Levin was firmly convinced that if the buckwheat had been scorched, it was only because the precautions had not been taken, for which he had hundreds of times given orders.

  • Stranger than I can express, certainly, was the effort to struggle against my new lights; it would doubtless have been, however, a greater tension still had it not been so frequently successful.

  • Then it was that, had I not been deterred by the very chance that such an injury might prove greater than the injury to be averted, my exultation would have broken out.

  • Mrs. Grose might, as I gave it to her, fairly have fallen away from me had I not been prepared.

  • I sometimes think that had I not been something of a simpleton, I might at this time be a great court lady.

  • Passing Avice's chamber he perceived that the little bed had not been slept on.

  • She's been very generous towards me, which I've not been to her.

  • Avice said that her mother had not been so well--she feared not nearly so well since her return from London, so that she was obliged to keep her room.

  • Hath it not been taught to you from childhood that the law of She is an ever fixed law, and that he who breaketh it by so much as one jot or tittle shall perish?

  • The reply was that she had not been to the hall that day.

  • What, not been to see the poor fellow who owes his death to you?

  • I'm glad to see you alone," she said at length, with an abruptness that might have seemed awkward had it not been so completely unconscious.

  • During the cruise his task had not been distasteful to him.

  • You've not been boxed up in the bush all your life, though you've been a goodish while there.

  • He had such confidence in himself that he would have dispensed judgment without resort to witnesses, had he not been prevented by a heavenly voice.

  • Subsequent events showed that she had not been worthy of entering into the Jewish communion, for scarcely had she separated from Naomi when she abandoned herself to an immoral life.

  • The story of the lighted house was the symbol, only he, in the bitterness and defiance of his heart, had invited the guests, not been surprised by them.

  • He did wish to be "firm" with his father, but it would have been so much easier to be firm had he not been so fond of him.

  • The only human being who was not remote was Martin; his love for his son had not been touched by his other struggles, it had been even intensified.

  • Uncle Mathew although he was a silly man was one of these perceptive souls, and had he not been compelled by his circumstances to think continually about himself, would have loved his niece very dearly.

  • I've not been down at this end of the lake these two summers," said Hurry, standing up in the canoe, the better to look about him.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "not been" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    against his; not afraid; not believe; not easy; not far; not far from the; not given; not have; not here; not hesitate; not intend; not know; not surprising; not think; not well; not wishing; not with; note paper; nothing else; nothing else but the; nothing had; nothing much; nothing should; nothing wrong; notwithstanding the; personal habits