Example sentences of "[pers pn] have not be [v-ing] " in BNC.

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1 I 'd not been thinking of us as boyfriend and girlfriend , you see .
2 I had not been counting own goals for more than a few minutes when I heard extraordinary sounds coming from my wardrobe .
3 If I had not been chasing that gipsy woman I could have gone to the party and chased Leila . ’
4 I had not been thinking about him , I had not even seen him for months .
5 When I first read Nairn ( it was published in 1987 ) I had not been contemplating Johnson : now , in the late sunlight coming through my bedroom window , I rushed to him and Boswell .
6 But I 've not been taking them for the last week .
7 I was on that , I mean I 've not been taking them all the time , I 've really only been taking them when I feel it .
8 Well I 've been very good I 've not been phoning anybody else
9 I 've not been sleeping well since the house was ransacked , and it 's made me very edgy .
10 I 'm very much aware I 've not been saying my name each time I 've been speaking but probably too late now .
11 But so far , that 's why I chitted at him this morning about that coal because I 've been using this all morning , I 've not been lighting fire till between one and three o'clock .
12 Well she phoned and umm asked how Oliver was and everything and just said oh how are you and I said oh I 've not been feeling very well over the weekend .
13 ‘ Miss Kenton , I have not been using a dust-pan . ’
14 There is no biographical key with which it can be unlocked — and I have not been trying to turn one in this essay of mine , which does not believe it , for that matter , to be locked .
15 ‘ Perhaps I have not been trying hard enough .
16 I have not been working too hard — ’
17 Do you think I have not been following all that you have done and all that has been done to you all these months ? ’
18 I have not been cutting it !
19 oh no you could n't you 'd not been messing with that all that long
20 You 've not been listening have you Paul ?
21 Learn to relax ( see the range of goods mentioned above to make you calmer ) and make sure you 've not been overtraining .
22 I know but you 've not been thinking of me .
23 You 've not been thinking .
24 He said in a quiet and ominous voice , ‘ You 've not been putting ideas in their heads , I do hope ! ’
25 You 've not been playing with us so we have had to learn to play for ourselves . ’
26 She had not been receiving any fertility treatment and it was only after a routine scan that all was revealed .
27 While she had not been looking where she was going , Rose had quietly taken her support .
28 Gabriel said nothing ; she had not been looking for a life-story .
29 She had not been expecting him .
30 The crucial evidence was that there was no indication that the manner of Williams ' driving had been unsuited to the road conditions , and she had not been drinking .
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