Example sentences of "they have not been [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 've not been making money for years though |
| 2 | They had n't been hunting it . |
| 3 | Pavel knew that he 'd not been the best company but then , they had n't been treating this job as anything particularly special . |
| 4 | They had n't been working on the slate face , they had n't worked any slate , but they were doing all right on the tables , you know on the sawing the slate up for the others . |
| 5 | Tsu Ma 's eyes had never left Li Shai Tung 's face , yet they had not been seeing him . |
| 6 | And no , they had not been expecting to see her that weekend , though with Giles away she had said she might come on the Sunday . |
| 7 | It was obvious from the way the staring eyes blinked , both Pairs together , that they had not been expecting an answer . |
| 8 | However months later he was able to start talking about his wife and the fact that they had not been getting on for some time and had begun divorce proceedings . |
| 9 | He had laughed at the time , but the way his stomach was behaving now , he began to fear they had not been jesting . |
| 10 | Can you imagine the effect on a monthly medal field if the members dropped out on the basis that they had not been playing well and they felt they were unable to stand the pressure ? |
| 11 | They had not been dreaming . |
| 12 | They had not been talking about the Dane , but she felt disinclined to revert to a discussion about the ease with which Vitor could persuade her to go to bed with him . |
| 13 | He 's gon na find it hard as well I think , but on the other hand they have n't been communicating at all , you know , it 's not like |
| 14 | For a long time now , they have n't been looking at each other . |
| 15 | ‘ By the looks of it , ’ she said , ‘ they have n't been feeding you any too well , where you 've been . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | They have n't been fighting , they 've been beating Chris up . |
| 18 | It it means that they have n't been doing their duty in the winter then . |
| 19 | Yeah , 'cos Tizer 's the only one they have n't been doing diet , and I 've been getting really pissed off . |
| 20 | and he said you know , he said they have n't been turning up at that chapel for them , when they 've preaching but you did n't crack on they knew anything about that but he just sort of said said no you know remain non-committal . |
| 21 | " I know they have n't been coming to class regularly . |
| 22 | Perhaps it is because the fishermen have been demonstrating so much recently that they have not been catching so much fish . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ Mr Taylor has completed ignored the fact that Catholics have been under the jackboot of the IRA and loyalists for over 20 years and it is ridiculous to say that they have not been living in fear . ’ |
| 24 | However , a substantial proportion of the long-term cases are children who have been taken into care against the wishes of their parents because they have not been receiving adequate care or control . |
| 25 | Even when they have not been beating a religious drum , Western historians have been censured for their myopia in treating modern science as if it were an exclusively Western phenomenon . |
| 26 | This is no mean task , especially if they have not been doing any recruitment for the past few months . |
| 27 | Would-be buyers who have been returning home empty-handed ( because they have not been offering sufficiently high prices ) have not learned that it is necessary to outbid other buyers ; would-be sellers who return home with unsold goods or resources ( because they have been asking prices that are too high ) have not learned that they must , if they wish to sell , be satisfied with lower prices . |
| 28 | If one of them had not been riding a white horse I would never have noticed them . |