Example sentences of "had [not/n't] [be] [v-ing] for " in BNC.

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1 Up to now , the manufacturers had not been accounting for dismantling personal computers in their construction , so it 's still a very difficult process .
2 Gabriel said nothing ; she had not been looking for a life-story .
3 We had not been going for more than half an hour when the driver of the sick man 's bullock cart came to me and said that all was now well , we need go no further .
4 It turned out that he was a heavy drinker and smoker , who had not been running for about the last 20 years .
5 Although fitted with an alarm courtesy of the Venice in Peril Fund , this had not been working for some time .
6 So he went up and had a scan and they s they checked it and of course when they checked the scan they noticed that his kid one of his kidneys had n't been functioning for a long time .
7 Do you remember that evening — I had n't been working for you for very long — and you gave me a lift home ? ’
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