Example sentences of "have been [v-ing] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And it gets in your hair and it gets in your clothes , she must have been listening to the television . |
| 2 | But I might have been speaking to a corpse , she was so pale and still and silent . |
| 3 | I can see my life as a road , and I can go back on that road and see what I 've passed and come to terms with what I have passed by without realising and appreciating ; how I 've stopped in various cafes on the way and met interesting people in them and had fascinating conversations when all the time I should have been speaking to the person on the next table instead . ’ |
| 4 | I can see my life as a road , and I can go back on that road and see what I 've passed and come to terms with and what I have passed by without realising and appreciating ; how I 've stopped in various cafes on the way and met interesting people in them and had fascinating conversations when all the time I should have been speaking to the person on the next table instead . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ The person who put this together must have been living in a box for the last 10 years . ’ |
| 6 | There they would have been complaining about the weather , the European Commission 's new fishing controls and the imminence of bankruptcy . |
| 7 | But perhaps Governor Clinton 's most remarkable achievement will have been bringing to an end the Reagan-Bush years . |
| 8 | But , fully clothed , he must have been reading in the sitting-room — or maybe he had just come in — when he too had heard the sound of a car crash . |
| 9 | She might have been reading from a tombstone . |
| 10 | But , more than that , his predilection for Neath players deprived the club of their own best talent so that when they would otherwise have been training for the league , instead they were training for the Five Nations Championship . |
| 11 | Freud may have been writing at a time of increasing urbanisation resulting from rapid industrialisation , but it is not at all clear that his work has any specifically ‘ urban ’ connotations . |
| 12 | If she had searched his bedroom earlier , she thought ruefully , she would not have been shivering on the pavement in a black pullover and jeans at two o'clock in the morning , carrying a large screwdriver . |
| 13 | However , if , by the date of trial , it can be shown that the deceased 's income would have risen since his death , then the dependency will be calculated by reference to what he would have been earning at the date of trial , rather than what he in fact was earning at the date of his death . |
| 14 | ‘ So you could n't go as far as saying who it might have been calling on the Rector at that late hour ? ’ |
| 15 | Since Alice had long since been betrothed to Richard the studied vagueness of the phrase " to whichever of his sons married her " suggests that Henry may have been toying with the idea of marrying her not to Richard but to John . |
| 16 | The Rhodesia Metals case was referred to in the Hang Seng Bank case [ 1991 ] 1 A.C. 306 and it follows that when Lord Bridge used the words ‘ place where the property was let ’ he must have been referring to the place where the property let was situated and not to the place or places where the lease happened to have been signed . |
| 17 | In repose Biff 's arm hung in mid-air ; he might have been recuperating in a wing of the Apothacarion with his limb in traction … |
| 18 | They must have been watching from a hill-top as I rode towards them because suddenly I was surrounded by a company of about 40 soldiers , all aged between 17 and 18 years . |
| 19 | There are a few conditions ; you must have been sailing within the area or bands briefed by the flotilla skipper , timing starts when the lead boat acknowledges the failure , and you must return to UK with a report signed by the flotilla skipper detailing the circumstances . |
| 20 | It is a picture of the 1888 regatta , but the yachts could have been sailing in the Bay in the 30s . |
| 21 | Thus Castro was in dire need of a Soviet commitment to preserve his revolution , and in a speech given to the United Nations on 26 September 1960 the Cuban leader may have been hinting at the price he might have been willing to pay when he said , ‘ We understand how terrible the subordination of the economy and life in general of nations to foreign economic power is . |
| 22 | At this time of the evening they 'd have been drinking for an hour . |
| 23 | When he looked at the picture of Tace he might have been looking into a mirror . |
| 24 | Must have been looking for a house . |
| 25 | Your , your arithmetic has really improved you know , you can do these things in your head now whereas not all that long ago you 'd have been reaching for the calculator thinking , oh I ca n't do that . |
| 26 | ‘ From the position of the body I think he could have been sitting on the edge of the bed . |
| 27 | By rights , Kate — my partner 's secretary — should have been sitting at a desk in the foyer doing the initial vetting , but you beat us to it ; you were very quick off the mark . |
| 28 | Then she looked swiftly , secretly with her large eyes back to where Conchis must have been sitting at the harpsichord , and then again at me . |
| 29 | She must have been sitting over the phone . |
| 30 | Okay you may not have ever seen him , he may just have been sitting in the car , then remember his colour maybe his moustache and then the type of car he had . |