Example sentences of "[noun] [vb mod] have been [v-ing] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ What a lovely thing to do , ’ he remarked and , appalled at his patronising tone , told her that her ears should have been burning on Christmas Day . |
| 2 | ‘ The assassin must have been lying on the ground or Father standing on some steps ? |
| 3 | So why the population should have been growing on this scale I think is er a question that we ca n't answer very easily . |
| 4 | My whole thinking , every waking moment should have been concentrating on the 100 metres in which I was still convinced , despite losing to Carl in Madrid earlier in the season , that I could take the gold medal . |
| 5 | Additionally , the fact that this part of the movement was written out by Leopold suggests that Mozart may have been working on another part of the symphony while his father was copying the part that already existed . |
| 6 | Villagers could have been sitting on a chemical poison with untold consequences to health . |
| 7 | An independent manager would have been fighting on behalf of his artist for just such a concession ; but for a manager who owned the record company , that meant arguing against himself . |
| 8 | She felt as though , had she been a dog , all her hair would have been standing on end . |
| 9 | A separate report indicated that Iran may have been working on the development of such a weapon on and off for a good decade . |
| 10 | If I ca n't get to the person they want I try and say to them , ‘ Look , can you please ring back ’ , because if they left a message , that message would have been lying on my desk until the next morning , until I get round to actually phoning that person internally , saying this person rang . |
| 11 | Visual contact : this last week McGeechan will have been working on videos , preparing training sessions . |
| 12 | ‘ I thought the big National Hunt boys would have been banging on our door , ’ he admitted . |
| 13 | Right , this is my er the original beret but this is a beret that every single officer would have been wearing on his head and then er in relation to the actual uniform that the officer would be wearing er we wear jumpsuits . |