Example sentences of "n't have [be] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If it had n't have been for her I would n't have been taking so many exams . |
| 2 | For the last ten years you should n't have been taking it . |
| 3 | Because i in , in theory presumably they s they should n't have been abusing their position , they should n't be gaining more because the whole point was to do it for the masses particularly , I mean if you were a Party cadre erm you should n't be getting more out of it than anybody else . |
| 4 | I have accepted part of it , and I 've amended it to ensure that we can overcome the criticisms er that would have been involved if we 'd left it er as it was , er and above all , and I think this is the most important thing , we 've made sure that it will work , er and that it will meet our objectives of getting competition into the franchises , if we 'd just ended up with one great monolithic British Rail , after all each franchise remember will be coming gradually , they wo n't be doing them all at once , there will be one next year , several the year after , and so on , if British Rail had been able to go around and pick them off , and say , Well we can run this now in the future much better than we 've done it in the past , so we 'll bid , and we 'll bid a low bid , that really would n't have been getting fair and proper competition into the system , so what i what I 've done is ensured , as I 've done all the way through in this bill in accepting amendments , that we make sure we achieve our objectives , and that above all it 's workable , the , as it was it would n't as it was the Paignton amendment would n't have been workable , because there would have been total chaos and confusion |
| 5 | Ian Botham ca n't have been expecting to have such a free winter , but he 's certainly filling it innovatively with a national tour of his show , An Evening With Ian Botham . |
| 6 | And maybe she would n't have been expecting him to ‘ dance attendance ’ on her if she had n't soon discovered that he 'd been spending so much time with his personal assistant ! |
| 7 | B : I sha n't have been goin' to . |
| 8 | But they thought that the boys should n't have been swimming there anyway . |
| 9 | Whatever , she certainly would n't have been experiencing the gut-wrenching tension that she was feeling now . |
| 10 | We would n't have been passing the church except that we called in to collect Maggie Sullivan and it 's a shortcut from her place to the Feathers . ’ |
| 11 | He should n't have been thinking about things like that at his age ! ’ |
| 12 | She could n't have been supplying Russian weapons typewriter unlisted phone numbers — oh were those two Second Secretaries on the No-go-Alone List ? ’ |
| 13 | Gustav need n't have been telling the truth about the Allies — though it sounds as if he might have been telling it about his wife . |
| 14 | And er , if we should n't have been using it , what 's the alternative ? |
| 15 | Oh well would n't have been saying anything then would they ? |
| 16 | Predictably , perhaps , one eagle-eyed visitor to the Royal Photographic Society in Bath , where the sculpture is currently showing , rang up to complain that it was n't accurate , that the bowler could n't have been doing all those things . |
| 17 | Should n't have been doing that and should n't have been doing that . |
| 18 | Should n't have been doing that and should n't have been doing that . |
| 19 | ‘ We ca n't have been running all day . |
| 20 | The school authorities were unsympathetic : the dinner ladies would only accept you into the school to see the nurse if you were on the point of death , + my teacher kindly informed me that I should n't have been running in the playground . |
| 21 | I must n't have been concentrating . |
| 22 | And he should n't have been going in the woods , should he ? |
| 23 | But I As I say I were young and I would n't have been paying particular attention . |
| 24 | But if she had , he still would n't have been paying his tax — she would have . |
| 25 | I do n't think he was any more upset , but I might n't have been paying attention . ’ |
| 26 | er ready to enter the flat , he would n't have been paying attention to what I was doing . |
| 27 | Eighteen months ago they would n't have been asking for more money |
| 28 | With his hand pressed firmly to a creased brown , Spencer uttered : ‘ Oh man , if I 'd known you were gon na wear shoes like that , we would n't have been having this conversation … ‘ |
| 29 | Well he should n't have been having drinks . |
| 30 | They would n't have been recruiting schoolboys : they 'd want mature people , organisers , types with a sense of responsibility and a bit of gloom , kids and a mortgage . |