Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] n't been [v-ing] [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 | Mm , I have n't been shopping this weekend . |
| 5 | Though I have n't been testing these boots for long before writing this review , initial impressions are very favourable . |
| 6 | ‘ I have n't been having any nasty suspicious thoughts … ’ |
| 7 | I have n't been doing much on Sunday . |
| 8 | I have n't been selling snide Rolexes for nothing , you know . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ If she had n't been screaming all that nonsense at the top of her voice , it would never have happened . |
| 10 | But no , she had n't been wearing that dress , of course she had n't . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | ‘ You told me you had n't been using any different chemicals , Bob . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ I knew you had n't been paying any attention . |
| 14 | Er and you have n't been taking any of those Diazepam at all ? |
| 15 | 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 ? ’ |
| 16 | " 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 . " |
| 17 | I know you have n't been doing any English and that , but erm , have you have you been doing much reading ? |
| 18 | You have n't been waiting six years , Luke . ’ |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 22 | Which is odd , since he has n't been doing any work for me . ’ |
| 23 | Surely he had n't been using that tone with her a moment ago ? |
| 24 | He had been wanting reassurance for a long time and he had n't been getting any . |
| 25 | But if , if he had n't been doing that |
| 26 | Well at least she 's , he had n't been doing enough work somehow ! |
| 27 | 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 ’ . |
| 28 | She knew he had n't been paying any attention to the play . |