Example sentences of "[adv] have [be] [v-ing] [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 It would just have been having a good time .
2 Bowe might just have been demonstrating an innate sense of psychological testing techniques .
3 So Mrs so far has been hogging the whole show , is that right ?
4 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 .
5 He might as well have been devising a new war game .
6 He might well have been working a small place on his own behalf .
7 She pinched herself , but might as well have been pinching the padded plastic of the bed on which she sat for all the sensation she felt .
8 And if he involved himself in military activity , he would simply have been discharging the martial duty expected of him as royal liberator .
9 Whatever , she certainly would n't have been experiencing the gut-wrenching tension that she was feeling now .
10 So , Mavis at least had been getting a good earful .
11 These subjects may therefore have been having the same sorts of experience as " dreamers " , but did not label their REM sleep experiences as " dreams " , but " thinking " .
12 Recently , even those outlets have been drying up because they too have been selling the big breweries ' beer in return for cheap loans .
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