Example sentences of "have not [be] [v-ing] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Obviously , Mr Gustafson has not been doing his homework , otherwise he would know that there are 48 UN resolutions calling for the withdrawal of all foreign troops from Cyprus , and the restoration of its territorial integrity and sovereignty . |
| 2 | The peo the machine only goes off bad if somebody has n't been maintaining it . |
| 3 | Hiya darling , hiya no I was really surprised cos he has n't been drinking his juice , and that went down |
| 4 | Er and take into consideration er Act since nineteen eighty five but it does exist er and also tend to agree that we do need a , a , er transport policy which actually takes er into consideration all er members of transport but the main point about this and Chris actually raises the point , er he referred to shopping it if we support the terminal five erm planning application but we say it has n't been doing it , er on the consideration we get these other things which are on shopping list , then you are actually erm forcing the government that you have er , er and this integrated policy , the driving for in the long run . |
| 5 | You 're doing brilliant in French , absolutely brilliant , she has n't been doing it long . |
| 6 | ‘ He has n't been paying his dues ’ , was Michael 's comment . |
| 7 | If you 'd 've known then what you knew after you wouldn't 've thought it were funny , you 'd 've not been chucking nowt you 'd 've been off . |
| 8 | And they 've gone all , you see I have n't been eating them so they 've been in the fridge and they 've gone all soft . |
| 9 | Josh had the newspaper spread out in front of him on the table , but Ruth felt sure that he had not been reading it ; she doubted if he even knew it was there . |
| 10 | She had not been expecting him . |
| 11 | He identified his electricity bill and the telephone bill ( he hoped his colleagues had not been using his phone too much ) and a typewritten envelope which he took to be an advertisement . |
| 12 | Tsu Ma 's eyes had never left Li Shai Tung 's face , yet they had not been seeing him . |
| 13 | She had noticed , over the last weeks , that her mother had not been wearing her favourite ring . |
| 14 | He had not been cancelling his offer ! |
| 15 | The Wilsons were made homeless when the rented house they had lived in for three years was seized by the building society their landlord had not been paying his mortgage . |
| 16 | Sentencing Clarke at Oxford Crown Court , Judge Francis Allen said he took into account he had not been driving his van fast or badly at the time . |
| 17 | Well I 've been very good I 've not been phoning anybody else |
| 18 | Yeah , but I mean you know , at the moment we 've not been pushing anything till |
| 19 | But I 've not been taking them for the last week . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | I 'm very much aware I 've not been saying my name each time I 've been speaking but probably too late now . |
| 22 | She 'd only pulled away because she knew what was happening was wrong , not because she had n't been enjoying it . |
| 23 | Damn you , she wanted to say , suddenly hating him as she hated realising that while he had watched her reading from the Palmer & Pearson file that night — she had been oblivious that she had n't been wearing her spectacles — but not so him ! |
| 24 | I knew that I had n't been kidding myself when he turned up one evening looking exhausted , miserable and defeated , to tell me his wife had threatened to start divorce proceedings . |
| 25 | A very small pocket penknife ( with hoof-pick and corkscrew ) had n't been lending me much courage . |
| 26 | They had n't been hunting it . |
| 27 | I had n't been expecting him quite so soon . |
| 28 | But then he would have been calm , I supposed , if he had n't been expecting anything to happen except before Vancouver . |
| 29 | He had n't been thinking anything of the sort and last night he had only suggested he could settle her business for her with a phone call to the manager , whom he knew well , because he wanted to take her out today instead of waiting outside hotels for her . |
| 30 | They 've started recently , they d they did n't do it for years , we had n't been training anybody and that was unusual because when it was the big factory you were always bringing in the school leavers |