Example sentences of "[adv] have been [v-ing] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Presenting their greatest hits as a pension plan nest egg might not have been playing the cutting edge game but , blimey , who is ? |
| 2 | For instance : ‘ My greatest achievement so far has been supervising the Brillo campaign . ’ |
| 3 | So Mrs so far has been hogging the whole show , is that right ? |
| 4 | Historically , the standard of diligence set by the courts has been comically low , as can be seen from the cases concerning failure to supervise fellow directors and managers who turn out to have been defrauding the company . |
| 5 | The breeze which before had been cooling the morning , dropped now and the lane grew loud with bees and heavy with the scent of summer . |
| 6 | She pinched herself , but might as well have been pinching the padded plastic of the bed on which she sat for all the sensation she felt . |
| 7 | The thief may simply have been stealing the books to sell . |
| 8 | And if he involved himself in military activity , he would simply have been discharging the martial duty expected of him as royal liberator . |
| 9 | Whatever , she certainly would n't have been experiencing the gut-wrenching tension that she was feeling now . |
| 10 | 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 . ’ |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | GCSE students here have been studying the truancy problem . |
| 13 | I believed that I should again have been running the anchor leg , but our Director of Coaching decided otherwise . |
| 14 | These subjects may therefore have been having the same sorts of experience as " dreamers " , but did not label their REM sleep experiences as " dreams " , but " thinking " . |
| 15 | Recently , even those outlets have been drying up because they too have been selling the big breweries ' beer in return for cheap loans . |
| 16 | BP 's customers too have been following the trend by producing their plastic products more efficiently . |
| 17 | See , you see it 's okay this guy being funny like that but we er we , I think we 've got every right to be D' ya mean if we had n't actually have been starting the work , heaven knows how long it would have been before we 'd actually got the invoices paid ! |