Example sentences of "[pers pn] have [not/n't] be [v-ing] [det] " in BNC.
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1 | I had not been counting own goals for more than a few minutes when I heard extraordinary sounds coming from my wardrobe . |
2 | If I had not been chasing that gipsy woman I could have gone to the party and chased Leila . ’ |
3 | Mm , I have n't been shopping this weekend . |
4 | Though I have n't been testing these boots for long before writing this review , initial impressions are very favourable . |
5 | ‘ I have n't been having any nasty suspicious thoughts … ’ |
6 | I have n't been doing much on Sunday . |
7 | Do you think I have not been following all that you have done and all that has been done to you all these months ? ’ |
8 | ‘ If she had n't been screaming all that nonsense at the top of her voice , it would never have happened . |
9 | But no , she had n't been wearing that dress , of course she had n't . |
10 | She had n't been paying much attention to the journey , and did n't have any idea of where they were ; the archway led into a long courtyard with a cobbled surface and small , squeezed-in houses to either side . |
11 | She had not been receiving any fertility treatment and it was only after a routine scan that all was revealed . |
12 | ‘ You told me you had n't been using any different chemicals , Bob . ’ |
13 | ‘ I knew you had n't been paying any attention . |
14 | Er and you have n't been taking any of those Diazepam at all ? |
15 | Are you sure you have n't been taking any drugs , tablets , medicines of any sort — ’ she shook her head violently , but refused to meet his gaze ‘ — or any antibiotics during the last six months ? ’ |
16 | I know you have n't been doing any English and that , but erm , have you have you been doing much reading ? |
17 | ‘ We 've not been putting any in . ’ |
18 | ‘ We have not been running this campaign as an entertainment for our dear friends in the press and broadcasting media . |
19 | Pavel knew that he 'd not been the best company but then , they had n't been treating this job as anything particularly special . |
20 | They have n't been fighting all these years to get rid of communism to see it re-emerge again so you , the confusion continues , as it is in Russia , and then you insinuate the idea that , with the breakdown of social order and so on , you must have a strong man , you must have strong arms and that 's where your Hitlers and your Mussolinis and all these people come through in that little vacuum in between of disorder . |
21 | This is no mean task , especially if they have not been doing any recruitment for the past few months . |
22 | Which is odd , since he has n't been doing any work for me . ’ |
23 | Thin , pale , intense , he had not been speaking many minutes before we were electrified by this man . |
24 | Surely he had n't been using that tone with her a moment ago ? |
25 | He had been wanting reassurance for a long time and he had n't been getting any . |
26 | But if , if he had n't been doing that |
27 | Well at least she 's , he had n't been doing enough work somehow ! |
28 | He had n't been paying much attention to what Throgmorton had been talking about on the way here , but he recalled his ears had caught the unpleasant words ‘ casting vote ’ , and ‘ your important role as president ’ . |
29 | She knew he had n't been paying any attention to the play . |
30 | ‘ We talked about football but all he wanted to talk about was sex , ’ she said , before adding , ‘ I hear he 's not been scoring many goals recently and that 's why he left Arsenal , but all I can tell you is he certainly scored a hat-trick with me that night . ’ |