Example sentences of "have been [v-ing] [art] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They might have been using the whole of the attendance allowance erm to pay for carers , outside of the care that we provided , erm or a member of the family might have given up work to look after another member of the family . |
| 2 | For example , symptom diaries that have been completed in blocks of different coloured ink arouse a suspicion that the patient may have been completing the diary in blocks of days rather than daily . |
| 3 | Brian had given Scarlet the impression that , if it had not been for his first wife and her child , and his second wife and her child , he would have been living a life of carefree splendour in a house adjacent to the park . |
| 4 | In the meantime , they will have been spreading the word about the collection and ensuring their future health ’ . |
| 5 | Gustav need n't have been telling the truth about the Allies — though it sounds as if he might have been telling it about his wife . |
| 6 | Some of his companions had reported smoke , but Dulé had thought little of it — Sycorax could have been stewing the indigo with special enthusiasm . |
| 7 | When we left the meeting , I should have been punching the air with joy . |
| 8 | Even before that stage is reached , the Cabinet Office will have been monitoring the progress of the more significant proposals by departments in order to alert the Prime Minister or Lord President of the Council of any wider implications . |
| 9 | By sending permanent representatives to the courts of Europe the Ottomans would have been accepting a kind of regular and established contact with the west which denied their most deeply held assumptions , which implied an at least partial renunciation of the inherent superiority to the Christian world which they claimed , and which for a surprisingly long time , even after the balance of military strength had turned decisively against them , seemed to almost all of them unnecessary and to promise no real advantage . |
| 10 | She might have been wearing a sign like those you see in car windows : GIVE MY CHILD A CHANCE — DO N'T PULL BACK . |
| 11 | At this time , the earl , must have been nearing the end of his distinguished career . |
| 12 | The American troupe were refreshingly different , innovative , but Virginia reflected afterwards that she might as well have been watching a film with no pictures , in a language she did n't understand , such was her lack of concentration on the details of that evening . |
| 13 | Her mother must have been watching the quayside from her terrace , Caroline realised with a jolt . |
| 14 | It is most likely that it had to do with the extra fasts practised by the Pharisees and in this case the disciples of John the Baptist , who may have been mourning the death of their leader . |
| 15 | Two , he might have been reclaiming the flag for non-racists . |
| 16 | The woman had not looked like a prostitute , besides which had that been the case Fedorov 's driver should have been taking a walk along the quay , or just sitting gazing tactfully ahead . |
| 17 | I said two to three years , I do n't deny it , but I would n't have been spending every minute of that time working to pay off what I owed you . |
| 18 | ‘ If we had been at home Rachel might have been spending the day with us instead . ’ |
| 19 | He might have been giving an apple to a horse . |
| 20 | It was conceded that had any individual shareholder held a sufficient block to give him ‘ control ’ of the company then he might have been entitled to a higher price than the total market value of his shares , since he would then have been selling an item of property — control — additional to his shares . |
| 21 | Jesus could have been following the custom of the Pharisees by celebrating Passover on the Thursday evening . |
| 22 | ‘ And somewhere , ’ Husband said , ‘ Mrs Howard must have been keeping a file on Gustav Eismark . |
| 23 | Ricky had to steel himself not to take her in his arms , but he would have been putting a match to a petrol-soaked bonfire , and he did n't want to hate himself any more than he did already . |
| 24 | You would have been talking a lot of deep stuff about Baptism and Matrimony . ’ |
| 25 | When he came to the College , Coleman was presumably almost totally ignorant of veterinary matters ( although he may have been studying the subject during the ‘ interregnum ’ ) . |
| 26 | I 'd have been making a living for myself as well ! ’ |