Example sentences of "have n't been [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I hope councillor has n't been puzzling about this question because I think she should have had adequate warning erm the cycling part of working party was agreed by city board on the ninth of on the seventh of December is to come to an end and such work has er relates to cycling within a new transport working party . |
| 2 | The only thing I can tell you with certainty is that Master Meredith has n't been riding since the accident . |
| 3 | It 's because Guido has n't been picking on me , she decided . |
| 4 | McDunn nods slowly , slightly , a distant look in his eyes like he 's not really nodding at what I 've just told him ; has n't been listening to a word I 've said , in fact . |
| 5 | She has n't been coming to school , Mrs Day . |
| 6 | It was an untidy sort of buildup but the ball fell invitingly for on the edge of the area and who has n't been scoring at all this season finished with all the aplomb of a player who 's full of confidence . |
| 7 | ‘ A military gentleman has n't been asking for me , has he ? |
| 8 | We 've been quoting Morrissey repeatedly from a Record Mirror interview and he has n't been talking about the pain of youth , the imagery of sixties films or the perception of Oscar Wilde . |
| 9 | I mean how can you justify talking to her about that when the efficiency is improved since she has n't been talking to people ? |
| 10 | He has n't been talking to anybody has he ? |
| 11 | Had n't been bothering with them for a while , now . |
| 12 | She had n't been reading at all but had been glancing out of the window not seeing the gracious gardens that surrounded Summer Lodge , but planning ways to help Craig when he came to her . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | He had n't been listening to the worried discussions behind him . |
| 15 | Dot had n't been thinking of her . |
| 16 | I had n't been thinking of stress or shock , I 'd been nursing a hangover . |
| 17 | I felt she had n't been thinking about Charlie at all — except as an inspiration — but that , like me , she 'd been dwelling on what she might do in the world . |
| 18 | I had n't been thinking about her that much , just a few times a day , and seldom imagined that I 'd glimpse her here or there on the street , on a bus , in the Superette , in the hospital , on a passing aeroplane five miles high . |
| 19 | There were frogs all round us , bubbling away , and we sat still for a bit and then he said , ‘ That 's the sound of Africa — it 's one of the things I love best ’ , and I knew he had n't been thinking about the baby or about me . |
| 20 | The truth was that George had n't been thinking about anything except himself . |
| 21 | She had again unwittingly revealed her misgivings , for on the face of it we had n't been speaking of marriage . |
| 22 | The way I put it was intentional and I think if we had n't been sitting in full view of some dozen of the hotel 's guests he would have hit me . |
| 23 | Now if I had n't been poking around that shop and in an |
| 24 | I 'd have told Jamie as much , too , if I 'd been able to talk and had n't been concentrating on putting one foot in front of the other . |
| 25 | Well , we had n't been wondering at all , we 'd come straight along the corridor , but of course he was speaking in a wider sense . |
| 26 | That striped blouse had n't been lying on top . |
| 27 | And if the tape recorder had n't been rolling with me playing around on guitar , some of the songs would never have happened ; I would never have remembered them . |
| 28 | At least he was n't going to pretend he had n't been talking to her . |
| 29 | It was n't that she had n't been talking to Mandy , it was just that she had let her displeasure over that application be felt for an entire week now . |
| 30 | And er er sort of phone call one afternoon at half past four from the deputy , oh by the way , in fact if we had n't been talking to any Brummies on a we would 've been interviewing people and telling them that they 'd got a three year and these are all points that are gon na be brought up next week , but I do n't see there is any possibility of them doing an about turn because they 've gone public on it . |