Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] have be [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In some odd way he was not a stranger because his name was painfully familiar and she imagined she had been expecting this angry arrival since her accident — that must be the cause of this feeling that was swimming through her . |
| 2 | ‘ I thought I 'd been doing that ! |
| 3 | I thought you 'd been doing that for the thirty whatsit of July . |
| 4 | Ranulf 's face was flushed and Corbett surmised he had been sampling some of the tavern 's heady ale . |
| 5 | She said I 'd been given all I 'd get and I said it was n't enough . ’ |
| 6 | I said I 've been phoning all the time , I said , and I still do n't know about it ! |
| 7 | Tracey Hall of Style Academy said she had been seeing more males looking for jobs . |
| 8 | She said she had been released half a mile away on a misty common and had not eaten for a long time . |
| 9 | Some tenants to whom this happens every few months said they 'd been told that next time they 'd have to sort it out themselves . |
| 10 | When people thought that the difficulty had been the credit firm 's fault , about half said that the company had made some mistake — such as claiming that arrears were owed , when in fact payments were up to date ; about half said they had been refused some type of credit which they had applied for . |
| 11 | ‘ One guy we spoke to said he had been walking this route everyday for the last ten years . |
| 12 | ‘ One guy we spoke to said he had been walking this route every day for the last ten years . |
| 13 | Mackie denied he had been told that and said that if he had been told the meeting was confidential from the start there would have been little point in him , as an analyst , being there . |