Example sentences of "have [been] [v-ing] [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The West , the Atlantic world , may have been firing rockets to the moon and fighting a war in Indochina , but the benefit of hindsight indicates now that in other ways it was gripped by a blinkered and introspective mood , absorbed by its own internal problems . |
| 2 | ‘ They must have been meeting places for The Hell Fire Club he discovered . ’ |
| 3 | of all divers seen have been moving east up the coast . |
| 4 | Perot was furious ; instead of chasing chimeras , his money could have been earning interest in the bank . |
| 5 | I can remember Leslie coming home , I think I must have been expecting Doreen at the time , that was in , that was early early on , nineteen , well that was nineteen sixty three , and he was , he had heard that had I had been in the Gatehouse Drama Club , and er he said , Would I be interested in com in coming to the Drama in if they started ? |
| 6 | The fact that after the Great War the Liberal party went into decline and the Labour party emerged as a governmental party seemed to indicate that the most interesting developments must have been taking place on the left of British politics , even before the war . |
| 7 | This presumably posed a risk to airline uniforms ; was likely to distract passengers ( the male ones at any rate ) at a time when they should have been paying attention to the cabin staff for rather different reasons ; and carried the ultimate danger of the implant exploding . |
| 8 | I suppose I should have been paying attention to the old artist , when he was telling me that the thing had to be carried in near-vacuum with traces of helium and neon but definitely no oxygen , which would destroy it . |
| 9 | A COUPLE who died in a seafront car smash yesterday could have been racing seconds before the accident . |
| 10 | ‘ Yet you must have been keeping watch on the house — why ? ’ |
| 11 | But they were too far away for me to be certain , and the blinding light could have been playing tricks on the two of us . |
| 12 | This entailed an eighty-mile drive in all , at a time when I should have been making sandwiches for the post-funeral bun-fight . |