Example sentences of "[vb mod] have been [v-ing] with [pron] " in BNC.

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1 th you er I mean if it were very heavy you 'd almost sort of be prepared for it to go , but you know when you 're s s standing with a , something quite light , and you might have been standing with it a little while in your hand , and then suddenly the hand goes and ca n't you see that 's ve that 's very upsetting , it makes you not very confident .
2 I suppose in the old days , if we 'd been like you , she 'd have been living with us as a matter of course . ’
3 I think it would have been the Zetland , and — who knows — Mrs Field may have been riding with them that day .
4 They may have been suffering with anything from stress-related migraines to pre-menstrual tension .
5 I knew that when at last I was demobilised from the Waaf I would have to return to my peacetime occupation as a secretary in London , for the simple reason that my employers had been paying me my full salary all the time I had been in the Forces , that is , making up the difference between my Waaf pay and what I would have been earning with them .
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