Example sentences of "[verb] not [been] [v-ing] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The right hon. Gentleman has not been listening to his hon. Friends . |
| 2 | And , the greatest guilt of all , if she had not been in Maisie 's house … if Maisie had not been tending to the birthing … then the fire would not have happened and that darling woman would be alive today . |
| 3 | Two years ago , before he received an honorary doctorate at Stirling University , he told The Scotsman that the researchers had not been speaking to each other . |
| 4 | Dougal had not been listening to her for at least a minute . |
| 5 | When the subject of education was brought up and it was pointed out that the girl had not been going to school he said that she was not learning anything at school anyway , that she was much safer here than at the school she had been to , where she had been threatened with knives in the playground and that she could learn all a wife needed to know better at home . |
| 6 | and says erm we 've not been talking to her it sa she 's not the one to write . |
| 7 | TIGHT-LIPS Taylor to-morrow meets the Press he 's not been speaking to . |
| 8 | Because she 's not been going to the first aid room . |
| 9 | So far as I can tell , and that 's not as far as I 'd like , on the last few Fridays he 's not been going to any other bank or finance house . |