Example sentences of "have [not/n't] [be] [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The right hon. Gentleman has not been listening to his hon. Friends . |
| 2 | In times past , Shiptonthorpe has not been lacking in interesting characters . |
| 3 | Morgan Grenfell seems happy and has not been looking over Mr Massey 's shoulder . |
| 4 | Weary of Israel 's ceaseless importuning , it recently produced a long and scholarly ‘ confidential report ’ which concludes that , since Arafat told the UN General Assembly last December that he recognised Israel 's right to exist and ‘ renounced ’ terrorism , the PLO has not been speaking with ‘ forked tongues ’ and its declarations have ‘ for the most part been consistent , regardless of the media in which they appear . ’ |
| 5 | Also , the pilot will be in very good flying form and his instructor will have made sure that he has not been getting into bad habits . |
| 6 | In many parts of the world there are big restrictions on the way we trade , but the industry here has not been preventing from growing and we have a good environment in which to do business . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Juventus manager Giovanni Trapattoni confirmed last night : ‘ David has not been playing at the top level recently because of a knee condition . ’ |
| 9 | Despite the abundance of reserves , coal production in the USSR has not been increasing at any significant rate . |
| 10 | I do hope the members will recognise that the service has not be sitting on its laurels er between inspectors ' reports but that we have been modelling on one quarterly to er correct any omissions with respect to boundary or to make the necessary improvements in the service erm as , as recommended by the inspect and supported by members . |
| 11 | I hope councillor has n't been puzzling about this question because I think she should have had adequate warning erm the cycling part of working party was agreed by city board on the ninth of on the seventh of December is to come to an end and such work has er relates to cycling within a new transport working party . |
| 12 | The only thing I can tell you with certainty is that Master Meredith has n't been riding since the accident . |
| 13 | It 's because Guido has n't been picking on me , she decided . |
| 14 | McDunn nods slowly , slightly , a distant look in his eyes like he 's not really nodding at what I 've just told him ; has n't been listening to a word I 've said , in fact . |
| 15 | She has n't been coming to school , Mrs Day . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | ‘ A military gentleman has n't been asking for me , has he ? |
| 18 | We 've been quoting Morrissey repeatedly from a Record Mirror interview and he has n't been talking about the pain of youth , the imagery of sixties films or the perception of Oscar Wilde . |
| 19 | 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 ? |
| 20 | He has n't been talking to anybody has he ? |
| 21 | I 'd not been thinking of us as boyfriend and girlfriend , you see . |
| 22 | oh no you could n't you 'd not been messing with that all that long |
| 23 | When Keynes had talked of the ‘ euthanasia of the rentier ’ he had not been thinking of cricket , but the MCC had to face the reality of the decline of the leisured classes . |
| 24 | This was an idea that appealed strongly to me , though Unamuno had not been thinking of some of the ‘ brothers in solitude ’ — the outcasts from social and sexual ‘ normality ’ — who were the brothers that first sprang to my mind on reading that sentence in Corsham . |
| 25 | Rain had not been thinking of doing that . |
| 26 | I had not been thinking about him , I had not even seen him for months . |
| 27 | ( Jacques had not been living at home at least from 1707 , the year his Principes was published , which gives his address as rue Christine . ) |
| 28 | Also , they generally had not been living in the city ( in this case , in Birmingham ) long enough ( 5 years ) to obtain council housing and , if they had , they were generally offered sub-standard short-life housing in the inner city . |
| 29 | And , the greatest guilt of all , if she had not been in Maisie 's house … if Maisie had not been tending to the birthing … then the fire would not have happened and that darling woman would be alive today . |
| 30 | The Slovak government initially claimed that they had been planted by the federal authorities in the 1980s and had not been functioning since 1989 . |