Example sentences of "[vb mod] have been [v-ing] on [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Well , you should have been concentrating on what you were saying . |
| 2 | It was held that since the buyer knew much more about Persia than the seller , he must have been relying on his own judgment as to whether the tractors were suitable for the Persian market . |
| 3 | It must have been playing on her mind . |
| 4 | He must have been working on it in January 1948 at the latest , since the book was sent to the printers in the second week of February . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ I thought the big National Hunt boys would have been banging on our door , ’ he admitted . |
| 7 | 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 . |