Example sentences of "i have not been [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 ! |