Example sentences of "[pron] have [not/n't] [be] [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd not been thinking of us as boyfriend and girlfriend , you see . |
| 2 | I had n't been thinking about her that much , just a few times a day , and seldom imagined that I 'd glimpse her here or there on the street , on a bus , in the Superette , in the hospital , on a passing aeroplane five miles high . |
| 3 | I had n't been thinking of stress or shock , I 'd been nursing a hangover . |
| 4 | Now if I had n't been poking around that shop and in an |
| 5 | Do you remember that evening — I had n't been working for you for very long — and you gave me a lift home ? ’ |
| 6 | I had not been thinking about him , I had not even seen him for months . |
| 7 | Oh I 'm gon na start going , I have n't been swimming for that long and I 've been saying off and on oh I must go , I must go , but when it 's so cold outside you do n't feel like coming out with all wet hair and all that |
| 8 | ‘ I have n't been pretending to be in love with you this weekend . |
| 9 | ‘ It 's because I have n't been winning for a while and I am desperate . |
| 10 | ‘ But obviously you ca n't have the confidence unless you keep winning , and I have n't been winning since April when I started struggling with injury . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ But Gary — I have n't been spying for you ! |
| 12 | No , what she said about , about what she says there 's me , I have n't been talking about her , do n't tell her this . |
| 13 | ‘ I 'm going to see a sports psychologist because I have n't been focusing on the job and I must become more positive . ’ |
| 14 | It was an untidy sort of buildup but the ball fell invitingly for on the edge of the area and who has n't been scoring at all this season finished with all the aplomb of a player who 's full of confidence . |
| 15 | For the widow of a younger man or of one who has not been paying into a personal pension scheme for very long , this could be a very small amount — perhaps only a few hundred pounds a year . |
| 16 | I mean how can you justify talking to her about that when the efficiency is improved since she has n't been talking to people ? |
| 17 | She has n't been coming to school , Mrs Day . |
| 18 | oh no you could n't you 'd not been messing with that all that long |
| 19 | I know but you 've not been thinking of me . |
| 20 | ‘ You 've not been playing with us so we have had to learn to play for ourselves . ’ |
| 21 | She had n't been reading at all but had been glancing out of the window not seeing the gracious gardens that surrounded Summer Lodge , but planning ways to help Craig when he came to her . |
| 22 | I felt she had n't been thinking about Charlie at all — except as an inspiration — but that , like me , she 'd been dwelling on what she might do in the world . |
| 23 | It was n't that she had n't been talking to Mandy , it was just that she had let her displeasure over that application be felt for an entire week now . |
| 24 | Gabriel said nothing ; she had not been looking for a life-story . |
| 25 | It turned out that he was a heavy drinker and smoker , who had not been running for about the last 20 years . |
| 26 | Perhaps one of the most important groups for the stimulation of change is that which falls between these two poles : those teachers who I would see as belonging to the 25 to 35 year-old age group , or perhaps those who have not been teaching for more than six , or less than three , years . |
| 27 | ‘ You have n't been listening to us . |
| 28 | ’ Oh , Bill , you have n't been listening to a word I said ! ’ |
| 29 | ’ You have n't been confiding in him , have you ? ’ |
| 30 | Well if you have n't been working for six months you are looking for a job , you are not unemployed . |