Example sentences of "[adv] have [be] [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cecil resigned from the Cabinet and ever since has been playing to full houses when he addresses the Tory faithful . |
| 2 | I said I had no objections , but I would have to ask , you know , the committee if they had because she 's not a member as such , but obviously has been going on all the year . |
| 3 | The penal system wields power over its subjects , but its moral right to do so has been coming under strong attack . |
| 4 | Something inside had been hoping against all logic for a different answer . |
| 5 | The regional officers also wrote to the Chilean authorities calling for the prompt introduction of legislation which will give official licenses to the many community radio and TV stations that hitherto have been operating under severe restrictions . |
| 6 | Advance tapes suggest that it 's leagues ahead of the rather dull ‘ Thaw ’ Housefrau superstar LYDIA LUNCH meanwhile has been recording with pathological monsters OXBOW for their LP ‘ King Of The Jews ’ , which should be out in January when they 're set to return to the UK for another series of dates . |
| 7 | Advance tapes suggest that it 's leagues ahead of the rather dull ‘ Thaw ’ Housefrau superstar LYDIA LUNCH meanwhile has been recording with pathological monsters OXBOW for their LP ‘ King Of The Jews ’ , which should be out in January when they 're set to return to the UK for another series of dates . |
| 8 | I had never suspected she had ever loved any man but Simon Ellis and I knew she could not have been referring to him since she had never spoken of him without affection and great kindness . |
| 9 | ‘ Look for balding , bearded men , ’ I nearly said — but he may not have been looking for precisely that variety of technical person . |
| 10 | Horses would not have been lacking in the Isle of Wight . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | An initial point is that the LDDC could not have been operating in a more favourable environment . |
| 13 | ‘ He may not have been working on it ; more likely he was deciding how to frame it . ’ |
| 14 | Sheriff Risk rejected suggestions that the Sikorsky should not have been landing on a restricted helideck . |
| 15 | Any sizable successful herbivorous group surely can not have been relying on one such geographically limited group of seed-plants to the exclusion of all others . |
| 16 | All that is known of medieval warfare suggests that Lothar and his men would not have been sleeping after dawn — least of all when they knew that battle was imminent — and that Lothar 's scouts would have kept him well informed of his brothers ' moves . |
| 17 | Martin and Roberts ( 1984 , pp. 11–12 ) found that older women , many of whom would not have been contributing to the state pension scheme in their own right , tended to leave the labour market in their mid-fifties . |
| 18 | However , this is a direction in which we would already have been moving for other reasons , and the installation of a digital telephone exchange for the provision of extra lines to our new accommodation will greatly facilitate the process . |
| 19 | Either Frederick became ill because of their privations , or he may already have been suffering from pneumonia , which was worsened by the hard journey . |
| 20 | Also , Edmund may already have been suffering from the illness , or possibly wound , of which he was soon to die . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | He may miss out significant features of style which he happens not to have been looking for . |
| 23 | Everyone downstairs had been gawping at her . |
| 24 | So do bear those things in mind , because part of today and yesterday has been saying to you , how you can present yourselves to radio and T V in such a way that you 're not only experts in your specific subjects , but you are sufficiently expert in the techniques that go to make up good radio , that people will say , ‘ Let's have so-and-so back again . |
| 25 | Before Nathan entered , her mind had been filled with the prospect of playing Lady Macbeth at last , and to all appearance she might still have been thinking of nothing but that . |
| 26 | It would therefore be incredibly naive to conclude from the PIMS data that it is erroneous for companies to increase capital intensity — when their snapshot was taken by PIMS they might still have been waiting for their day to come . |
| 27 | Athelstan studied him carefully , rather concerned , for by now Sir John would usually have been shouting for more claret or sack . |
| 28 | It applies equally to what would once have been obtaining by false pretences , if , as is here the case , the requirements of section 1(1) are also satisfied . |
| 29 | But one of the happiest jobs I ever had was working in a place called Lonsdale Sports . |
| 30 | I 've watched Howard Kendall 's side recently , and the stuff they have been serving up has been bordering on the pathetic compared to earlier performances this season . |