Example sentences of "have been [v-ing] [art] [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was June ; it was Bexhill-on-Sea ; he may have been reading the county scores . |
| 2 | He can hardly have been wearing a ski mask in the street at that hour of the morning , whether it was snowing or not . ’ |
| 3 | 1.9 In every case the onus lies on the defendant to prove that the plaintiff should have been wearing a seat belt and that his injuries would have been avoided or less severe if he had been . |
| 4 | At this time of the year , if Napoleon had not returned , Sharpe should have been thinning the apple crop , stripping away basketloads of young fruit to give the remaining crop a better chance of ripening in the autumn , but instead he was riding a dusty road in Belgium and searching for an enemy . |
| 5 | They would have been paying an interest rate of 11.75 p.c. — which increased to 15 p.c. in January 1980 — compared with the current rate of about 10.95 p.c . |
| 6 | He could have been giving a traffic broadcast . |
| 7 | He might as well have been blowing a dog whistle for all we heard of his wasted energy . |
| 8 | The charge is that he allowed domestic inflation to get out of control and messed around with the exchange rate when he should have been applying the monetarist remedy . |
| 9 | Presenting their greatest hits as a pension plan nest egg might not have been playing the cutting edge game but , blimey , who is ? |
| 10 | I believed that I should again have been running the anchor leg , but our Director of Coaching decided otherwise . |
| 11 | Much more of that and we 'd have been making a block transfer to the Betty Ford clinic . |