Example sentences of "not been [v-ing] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | However , given that users in the hidden sector are slightly younger , and have not been using heroin for as long as the known users , it does seem highly likely that many more of these ‘ hidden ’ users will surface , either because of prosecution , pregnancy , physical illness or their own decision to seek help of some sort . |
| 3 | Married women who had not been receiving support from their husband when they were first interviewed , and were therefore not expecting support from him during subsequent crises , had a much reduced risk of depression if they received help from someone else whom they had named as very close at the first interview . |
| 4 | She revealed that he had not been taking anti-depressant tablets prescribed by a doctor . |
| 5 | Yeah , no , if you , if you 're supporting it colleague , we 've not been taking support in all , all week and indeed I know how important it is and we 'll , pardon ? |
| 6 | In recent years the courts have not been making compensation orders as freely as perhaps they might . |
| 7 | They 've not been making money for years though |
| 8 | But Marie , although she had not been paying attention to his words , had been thinking , her mind wandering off along a track of its own . |
| 9 | A sign of a good teacher that you know ask a student a question , point out to him that he 's not been paying attention . |
| 10 | But so far , that 's why I chitted at him this morning about that coal because I 've been using this all morning , I 've not been lighting fire till between one and three o'clock . |
| 11 | For several years , she had not been attending school regularly but had instead been sent on provincial theatre tours , first with a dancing troupe and later as a violinist or actress . |
| 12 | She has striking Italian looks , a model height of five feet ten inches and long slim legs — all attributes which she had n't been taking advantage of . |
| 13 | I 'm sure you have n't been eating hemlock stalks instead of celery , have you ? ’ |
| 14 | One of my students had been using the machine and she had n't been knitting tuck , so the tuck brushes had been put out of work . |
| 15 | She had n't been keeping track of the conversation , but he seemed to have pulled himself together over the past few minutes . |
| 16 | ‘ You have n't been paying attention , Benny . |
| 17 | She could feel it , thick and cold in her chest , like something she 'd swallowed ; as if before she had n't been breathing air at all . |
| 18 | What I did n't say was that I had n't been making love to her but to Alison , taking her from behind on the kitchen table , her rump high in the air and her toes squirming helplessly an inch or two off the floor . |
| 19 | You 're sure she has n't been making wine out of your dandelions ? |
| 20 | Yeah , 'cos Tizer 's the only one they have n't been doing diet , and I 've been getting really pissed off . |