Example sentences of "[conj] she have [not/n't] [been] [v-ing] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | For some reason , although she had not been doing the cooking , this made Lydia feel like Lucretia Borgia . |
| 2 | But Marie , although she had not been paying attention to his words , had been thinking , her mind wandering off along a track of its own . |
| 3 | Damn you , she wanted to say , suddenly hating him as she hated realising that while he had watched her reading from the Palmer & Pearson file that night — she had been oblivious that she had n't been wearing her spectacles — but not so him ! |
| 4 | She might have known that all of her efforts would end like this ; it was simply a truth that she had n't been wanting to face . |
| 5 | That she had n't been sleeping properly , finding herself tossing and turning , ending up with twisted sheets and pulverised pillows ? |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | It irritated her to think that she had n't been doing anything reckless like running to catch a bus ; but she had a private theory that an old person did n't break a hip because she fell , but fell because her hip snapped , after gradual erosion . |
| 8 | The crucial evidence was that there was no indication that the manner of Williams ' driving had been unsuited to the road conditions , and she had not been drinking . |
| 9 | One of my students had been using the machine and she had n't been knitting tuck , so the tuck brushes had been put out of work . |
| 10 | Roman had been holding her in his arms and she had n't been fighting — no wonder Dana was furious . |
| 11 | Jennifer 's illness had had its effect on her too ; lately her nerves had been bad and she had n't been sleeping . |
| 12 | ‘ If she had n't been screaming all that nonsense at the top of her voice , it would never have happened . |
| 13 | If she had n't been looking out for the signpost , she could easily have driven past without even realising it was there . |
| 14 | If she had not been implying that they , the comrades at No. 43 Old Mill Road , had unwittingly come closer to great events , then what did she mean ? |
| 15 | His joy on becoming a father was so manifest that if she had not been feeling so depressed , Celia might have laughed at him . |
| 16 | But she had not been listening . |
| 17 | My wife and I are staying at the Danieli , but she 's not been feeling well and urged me to take up the offer of an observer 's seat here . ’ |
| 18 | She 'd only pulled away because she knew what was happening was wrong , not because she had n't been enjoying it . |
| 19 | Antonia made soft-porn movie The Pieman — about a one-legged hooker who has a romp with a pizza delivery man — ‘ because she had n't been working much for nearly two years and had no income , ’ said Amanda . |
| 20 | Because she 's not been going to the first aid room . |
| 21 | While she had not been looking where she was going , Rose had quietly taken her support . |
| 22 | 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 ? |
| 23 | She could feel it , thick and cold in her chest , like something she 'd swallowed ; as if before she had n't been breathing air at all . |
| 24 | And when she had n't been arguing she had been calm , efficient , distant … |