Example sentences of "have been [v-ing] [art] [noun sg] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the morning , I slept through the pigeons , but around 8.30 a loud banging started down in the nave like they might have been building a scaffold or something . |
| 2 | They would have been chewing the carpet but for the fact that the floor was concrete . |
| 3 | Florian stopped his theatrically narrow-eyed scrutiny of Maria and grinned at Luke , who must have been telling the truth because he was all attention , no less than riveted . |
| 4 | It must have been chasing a squirrel or something and fell into the hollow and could not get out again . ’ |
| 5 | We would n't have been passing the church except that we called in to collect Maggie Sullivan and it 's a shortcut from her place to the Feathers . ’ |
| 6 | Had the defendant been aware , it is submitted , he would have had no defence , since he would then have been making a mistake as to whether or not the policeman was justified in seeking to restrain him , and whether he was therefore acting in the execution of his duty . |