Example sentences of "he have [not/n't] been [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well but I mean , Brian was saying himself you know he ca n't remember at least he 's says he 's been working down London when he has n't been earning a hundred pound a day you know , it 's something , we just accepted it , he said over the years I 've been earning a hundred pound a day he says , and that was it you know yo yo just do . |
| 2 | He should have cos he has n't been eating . |
| 3 | Hiya darling , hiya no I was really surprised cos he has n't been drinking his juice , and that went down |
| 4 | Which is odd , since he has n't been doing any work for me . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ But it 's a different story this time around and he has n't been doing the business for us . |
| 6 | Dave , Steve Davis has had a terrible you know , preliminary start to the season , this is the start of the official season , but he has n't been playing very well at the moment . |
| 7 | He has n't been scoring and he 's a 3mil centre forward ! |
| 8 | Nah , I bet he has n't been working . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | He has n't been talking to anybody has he ? |
| 11 | ‘ He has n't been paying his dues ’ , was Michael 's comment . |
| 12 | Jones has a lovely service but he has not been looking good behind a struggling pack . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | MODEST hero Ian Olney was the first to admit he has not been playing well . |
| 15 | Thin , pale , intense , he had not been speaking many minutes before we were electrified by this man . |
| 16 | At a White House meeting on 10 November Reagan argued that he had not been dealing with terrorists in Iran but only moderates . |
| 17 | He had not been searching specially for them so that , as he wrote in his journal , " It is sufficient to disturb the composure of an entomologist 's mind to look forward to the future dimensions of a complete catalogue " . |
| 18 | Initially the king was unsympathetic to Hopton 's petition , claiming that at the material time he had not been acting as a justice owing to a bureaucratic muddle over his appointment , but by December 1290 he had agreed that the money Hopton had already paid towards his fine should count instead towards a fine he had made to secure the wardship of the lands of his late wife . |
| 19 | Even after his first round of 69 , Woosnam was still maintaining that he had not been looking forward to playing , that it had not done much for his confidence and that he was still very nervous with the putter in his hand . |
| 20 | Clearly he had not been expecting a confrontation . |
| 21 | He had not been expecting the change in subject . |
| 22 | She revealed that he had not been taking anti-depressant tablets prescribed by a doctor . |
| 23 | Josh had the newspaper spread out in front of him on the table , but Ruth felt sure that he had not been reading it ; she doubted if he even knew it was there . |
| 24 | That he had not been misappropriating money or land for his own benefit was shown by his dire financial straits which led to his brief imprisonment as a debtor . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | He knew he had not been dozing very long because the smells of fried bacon and toasted bread still drifted through the house . |
| 27 | He had not been eating properly and had been drinking more than usual . |
| 28 | In a series of other cases from eyres where Mettingham had been one of the justices the auditors accepted his ‘ record ’ that he had not been sitting in the court when the case concerned was decided . |
| 29 | Everything was going too fast except Andy and he had not been going fast enough . |
| 30 | Just as though he had not been going to walk past into the kitchen , he wheeled , and pounded up the stairs in front of her . |