Example sentences of "have [been] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Steve would have been steering , but his mind was on other things . |
| 2 | What had gone awry , that he should have been led to this pass , and even now he felt himself following , perforce , the twists of his fortune , headlong as a fall , when he should have been steering his own course and bearing them strongly with him ? |
| 3 | A TRIAL was halted yesterday after complaints that magistrates had fallen asleep when they should have been listening to evidence . |
| 4 | He might have been listening to Moses when he came down from the mountain . |
| 5 | You must have been listening to the B.B.C. or something . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ It 's not a pleasant thought that he could have been listening to , and taping , our conversations . ’ |
| 7 | He had thought they were at least speaking to one another privately , but if Jim had really sworn an affidavit he must have been listening on another telephone . |
| 8 | And it gets in your hair and it gets in your clothes , she must have been listening to the television . |
| 9 | But probably by this time nobody would still have been listening . |
| 10 | He referred to the Man City game which he must have been listening to on Manc Radio . |
| 11 | With a fit beginner and an obviously hard snow surface , an accomplished racer should sure have been teaching Annabel to use the ski edges throughout the turn . |
| 12 | Instead of worrying about how to make the RUC acceptable to the minority , O'Neill should have been using the legitimate power of the state to crush an illegal insurrection . |
| 13 | He argued that teenagers were wasting their opportunities at Dovercourt , keeping the futile hope alive that they would be adopted by rich families and lead a fine life , when they could have been using their time to constructive purpose . |
| 14 | There are a couple of tracks from ‘ The Extremist ’ where it sounds like you could have been using a Les Paul , and that could have been the influence of the new stop tailpiece … |
| 15 | Of course many companies , particularly in manufacturing industry , will have been using ‘ time and attendance ’ systems for some time . |
| 16 | Ellis denied he was a ‘ pimp ’ and had no idea the youngster may have been using his premises for her work . |
| 17 | Opioid use is the top category , and individuals in this group may also have been using any of the drugs in the other five categories . |
| 18 | Barbiturates are the second hierarchical category , and individuals in this group may have been using any of the drugs in the four categories below , but not opioids . |
| 19 | Second , they should have been using heroin regularly for a period of at least two years . |
| 20 | Okay people could well have been using savings . |
| 21 | Perhaps they should have been using better cutlery , thought Robert , or calling Hasan ‘ sir ’ and making sure he had the best chair . |
| 22 | It is recognised however that some reference to a version may be worthwhile , in that the producer of a module may well have been using a specific version of a referenced module during initial design . |
| 23 | In an article in Nature , Susan Solomon and Daniel Albritton of the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Adminstration argue that policy makers may have been using too long a time scale to measure the destructive potential of CFCs , halons and their substitutes . |
| 24 | And er , if we should n't have been using it , what 's the alternative ? |
| 25 | Just as he would have been using Nicola Schreider , she reflected with sudden cold certainty . |
| 26 | He might have been using it to make him feel good and as a means to escape boredom or because he feels under pressure to join a group who were sniffing . |
| 27 | They might have been using the whole of the attendance allowance erm to pay for carers , outside of the care that we provided , erm or a member of the family might have given up work to look after another member of the family . |
| 28 | Byron may have been exaggerating a little when he wrote , ‘ Man 's love is of man 's life a thing apart , 'T IS woman 's whole existence ’ , but obviously there is more than a grain of truth in it , and not necessarily a painful or unacceptable one either . |
| 29 | By this stage Labour should have been riding high . |
| 30 | Dunwoody had in the past won on Norton 's Coin and would have been riding him in the Gold Cup had Desert Orchid been absent . |