Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] n't been [verb] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 I had n't been feeling terrific ’ , he went on , ‘ since I got into the hospital .
3 I 'm supposed to , watching me diet and I have n't been eating roast potatoes
4 I have n't been told that .
5 I have n't been told that , but
6 Anyway , I have n't been left stranded .
7 Mm , I have n't been shopping this weekend .
8 Though I have n't been testing these boots for long before writing this review , initial impressions are very favourable .
9 I have n't been having any nasty suspicious thoughts … ’
10 I have n't been doing much on Sunday .
11 I have n't been selling snide Rolexes for nothing , you know . ’
12 Yeah and guess who has n't been fed either !
13 ‘ If she had n't been screaming all that nonsense at the top of her voice , it would never have happened .
14 But no , she had n't been wearing that dress , of course she had n't .
15 And then they had all hooted with laughter and teased him mercilessly when they 'd arrived , because she had n't been seen all evening and they knew he was deeply disappointed .
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 ‘ You told me you had n't been using any different chemicals , Bob . ’
18 ‘ I knew you had n't been paying any attention .
19 Er and you have n't been taking any of those Diazepam at all ?
20 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 ? ’
21 " I 've been quite worried about you — you have n't been looking well lately , I noticed it this evening particularly when you dropped in . "
22 If you have n't been informed three months before your birthday , write to them .
23 I know you have n't been doing any English and that , but erm , have you have you been doing much reading ?
24 You have n't been waiting six years , Luke . ’
25 We have n't been trying hard to persuade the Garrimperos to adopt different technologies , more modern technologies that would avoid the contamination of the mercury , but as I said I believe the only way of reaching this goal is if we can organize the Garrimperos to have er a kind of er institutionalized way of exploiting gold , not the sort of gold rush i that is being on and on On and off in Brazil for two centuries right now .
26 If that was all there was to it , we could be pardoned some uneasiness ; we might feel that we have n't been shown much reason for supposing that there are any sentences such that all who understand them will agree on their truth-value no matter what the circumstances .
27 They , they left here erm about half past eight , twenty to nine and they got to about half way they had n't been gone twenty minutes and I thought , oh she 's left her photographs , she had to get four passport photographs and she 'd left them here and I thought we 'd send them , send them to her and she did n't like them you see , but she 'd have them .
28 Pavel knew that he 'd not been the best company but then , they had n't been treating this job as anything particularly special .
29 They have n't been fighting all these years to get rid of communism to see it re-emerge again so you , the confusion continues , as it is in Russia , and then you insinuate the idea that , with the breakdown of social order and so on , you must have a strong man , you must have strong arms and that 's where your Hitlers and your Mussolinis and all these people come through in that little vacuum in between of disorder .
30 Which is odd , since he has n't been doing any work for me . ’
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