Example sentences of "think [pron] have [adv] [be] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do you think I have not been following all that you have done and all that has been done to you all these months ? ’ |
| 2 | To talk to them , you would think she had still been playing with toys . |
| 3 | I do n't think she had really been hearing me till now . |
| 4 | He said he had thought they had all been fighting on the German side because they had all been under a German commander when surrendering . |
| 5 | ‘ Mother said she thought you have n't been looking too good lately — a bit peaky . ’ |
| 6 | We 'd been discussing something else , and I said it out of the blue , but in my mind it was as if we 'd just been talking about Oliver , and the way she answered , as if she thought we 'd just been talking about Oliver too and there was n't any break in that conversation even though we 'd been through lots of different subjects in the meantime , made me feel very cheerful . |
| 7 | Then in the morning he thought he 'd better be getting back home so he started home and when he got home he discovered it was the harvest time . |
| 8 | Because if not I think I 'd better be going . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Ee — well , it 's getting near my time for going home , I think I 'd better be making a move … ’ |
| 10 | I think we have probably been trying to reach each other several times in the last week or two unsuccessfully . |
| 11 | And I think they 'd just been hounding him for a while and that was the last straw . |
| 12 | Well he was as far as I can remember he was thirty eight he , he went he worked at the Gas Works , ca n't remember much about that really but er I think he 'd actually been working nights and came home and actually died in bed I believe . |