Example sentences of "have [been] [verb] [pron] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You will no doubt have been assisting her in basic matters connected with the running of her home while she is still in a state of shock following her husband 's death , for at this point even the most capable women sometimes find day-to-day planning and decision-making very hard to cope with and need to be eased gently back into their normal routine . |
| 2 | Though she was completely covered she might just as well have been wearing nothing at all . |
| 3 | Subconsciously he must have been expecting something like this : his first reaction was not surprise but an intensification of the dull misery which had enveloped him for the last 24 hours . |
| 4 | ‘ You mean I could have been discussing it with some of your clients , like the Contessa Mantero ? ’ |
| 5 | But if Mr Menzies had thought of this he must have been keeping it for another Sunday . |
| 6 | Back when Abba were in their '50s , around 1975 say , they would have called this sort of record a hustle record and huge black men with names like Fatback would have been playing it for rich white nightclubs . |
| 7 | If the police had never set up the jewellers shop , they would , in my judgment , have been doing the same thing , though of course they would not have been doing it in that shop , at that time . |