Example sentences of "have been [v-ing] the [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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Presenting their greatest hits as a pension plan nest egg might not have been playing the cutting edge game but , blimey , who is ? |
| 5 | I believed that I should again have been running the anchor leg , but our Director of Coaching decided otherwise . |