Example sentences of "[verb] [not/n't] [been] [v-ing] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Which is odd , since he has n't been doing any work for me . ’ |
| 2 | Just because even though they do n't talk very much any more and stuff and he probably has n't been spending much time with her , |
| 3 | I had not been counting own goals for more than a few minutes when I heard extraordinary sounds coming from my wardrobe . |
| 4 | Sigsworth had not been receiving any medication at the hospital to help him over his withdrawal . |
| 5 | She had not been receiving any fertility treatment and it was only after a routine scan that all was revealed . |
| 6 | Thin , pale , intense , he had not been speaking many minutes before we were electrified by this man . |
| 7 | Sophia wished her sister had not been wearing tartan trews , but it would never do to say anything . |
| 8 | If Rosemary had not been suffering any stress that night , though , it was not long before the situation which had begun with Travis Hepwood became stressful . |
| 9 | The English had not been acquiring new subjects in the first century and a half of their overseas expansion ; for the next century and a half they acquired new subjects at a rate which would have been quite inconceivable if they had been dealing with men and women who thought about their political rights and obligations in terms of nationalism . |
| 10 | But the CLE had not been practising racial discrimination . |
| 11 | Keith Speed , MP , the former Admiralty Under Secretary , said on television ( BBC Newsnight ) that he would have been astonished if those ships , from Exercise spring Train , had not been carrying nuclear weapons . |
| 12 | Surely he had n't been using that tone with her a moment ago ? |
| 13 | But no , she had n't been wearing that dress , of course she had n't . |
| 14 | What you were saying about approachability of lecturers , I 'm not afraid to ask for help , but I am reticent to ask for help more than once on the same thing , because I would hate them to think that I had n't been listening first time round or that I was stupid . |
| 15 | Well at least she 's , he had n't been doing enough work somehow ! |
| 16 | She had n't been paying much attention to the journey , and did n't have any idea of where they were ; the archway led into a long courtyard with a cobbled surface and small , squeezed-in houses to either side . |
| 17 | He had n't been paying much attention to what Throgmorton had been talking about on the way here , but he recalled his ears had caught the unpleasant words ‘ casting vote ’ , and ‘ your important role as president ’ . |
| 18 | She knew he had n't been paying any attention to the play . |
| 19 | ‘ I knew you had n't been paying any attention . |
| 20 | Pavel knew that he 'd not been the best company but then , they had n't been treating this job as anything particularly special . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | ‘ Others have not been getting initial appointments and have not been put on waiting lists because they are so long . |
| 23 | This is no mean task , especially if they have not been doing any recruitment for the past few months . |
| 24 | ‘ We have not been running this campaign as an entertainment for our dear friends in the press and broadcasting media . |
| 25 | ‘ We talked about football but all he wanted to talk about was sex , ’ she said , before adding , ‘ I hear he 's not been scoring many goals recently and that 's why he left Arsenal , but all I can tell you is he certainly scored a hat-trick with me that night . ’ |
| 26 | Are you sure you have n't been taking any drugs , tablets , medicines of any sort — ’ she shook her head violently , but refused to meet his gaze ‘ — or any antibiotics during the last six months ? ’ |
| 27 | I 'm supposed to , watching me diet and I have n't been eating roast potatoes |
| 28 | Mm , I have n't been shopping this weekend . |
| 29 | You have n't been waiting six years , Luke . ’ |
| 30 | I know you have n't been doing any English and that , but erm , have you have you been doing much reading ? |