Example sentences of "n't [been] [v-ing] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ’ Oh , Bill , you have n't been listening to a word I said ! ’ |
| 4 | He had n't been listening to the worried discussions behind him . |
| 5 | The only thing I can tell you with certainty is that Master Meredith has n't been riding since the accident . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | They had n't been working on the slate face , they had n't worked any slate , but they were doing all right on the tables , you know on the sawing the slate up for the others . |
| 8 | They didn they ne had n't been working in a quarry all that long . |
| 9 | ‘ I 'm going to see a sports psychologist because I have n't been focusing on the job and I must become more positive . ’ |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ‘ Mike , ’ he said , ‘ I wonder if we have n't been starting from the wrong end . |
| 12 | ‘ It 's because I have n't been winning for a while and I am desperate . |
| 13 | ‘ You have n't been sounding like a person who 's feeling better , ’ said Scarlet . |