Example sentences of "[conj] [indef pn] have be [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fletcher said : ‘ Our batting department has let us down in both Tests , although everyone has been working hard on their game and how to combat their spinners on turning pitches . |
| 2 | Booking into the hotel for another night , Kelly was told that someone had been trying to call her . |
| 3 | But they adamantly refused to listen when I insisted that someone had been trying to kill me . |
| 4 | He told Ballater that someone had been breaking in . |
| 5 | ‘ The figures mean that someone has been defrauding the company and it was n't Craig Grenfell because if you look at the dates you 'll see that the fiddling went on even when Craig was in prison . ’ |
| 6 | He would be certain , positive , that he was about to walk Into a tree , or a post or sign he had n't noticed ; even that somebody had been watching from behind a tree and was about to leap out and punch him hard on the nose . |
| 7 | And thirdly , I have certain highly specialized information about this planet , worrying enough in itself , that somebody has been trying to prise from my mind . |
| 8 | When you put all these factors together it concerns me that nobody has been advancing the case that as with other districts , some other districts in York , it would be appropriate , even more appropriate in my view , that the migration assumption should be discounted , there are in my view special reasons why this should be the case , special reasons over and above tho those that have been applied , to the other districts , this in my view would be that the Greater York housing provision for all those reasons I 've just highlighted , should be reduced , should be reduced to the seventy five percent level , in other words that would be reducing it by between a thousand and twelve hundred and fifty houses , now I wo n't get on to the reason that the fact that that 's one reason why there 's no need for a new settlement , erm but it is a reason in its own right just to protect the character and the capacity requirements and the environmental sensitivities of the Greater York area . |
| 9 | We believe that German unification will prove more troublesome than anyone has been expecting , keeping interest and exchange rates higher than expected . |
| 10 | It looked like someone had been drinking and eating bread , ’ said Rojas . |
| 11 | OOH-ER , looks like someone 's been trying a spot of stunt driving that led to a Mini being made even mini-er against a thick brick wall . |
| 12 | The wood at the back of the painting was deeply scored with a dagger as if someone had been searching for some secret crevice or compartment . |
| 13 | A low range of hills lifted in the north , yellow , rumpled , threadbare , as if someone had been carrying a lionskin and had grown tired of it and had thrown it down . |
| 14 | The back of her throat rasped as if someone had been scraping it with a razor blade : she needed a drink . |
| 15 | ‘ If someone has been living on the streets for a number of years he ca n't switch over to an organized life in a couple of days … it is too sudden . |
| 16 | He stiffened when he saw them and Devlin said cheerfully , ‘ Very pretty , son , but it looks to me as if someone 's been spoiling your good looks . ’ |
| 17 | I 'm just wondering why , cos someone 's been dealing with that |
| 18 | Well if he was there and you came along well that 's two people , so it 's not that secluded , okay , so we have to look on the positive side , if at the end of the day you 're going to get to a situation where , okay , you can see that the ordinary erm true blue course of events is just not gon na work , then it 's down to you , you have then got to make up your own mind what you 're going to do for the casualty and your own safety , okay , if somebody had been bleeding that long and you could n't of got help for them , what would your priority now probably be ? |
| 19 | It looked as if somebody had been giving the place a pretty thorough airing , and it was n't too hard to guess who . |
| 20 | So things like erm service from another superannuation scheme or if somebody 's been paying you know extra contributions to actually boost your pension lump sum , that is actually reckonable service . |
| 21 | And somebody has been covering up for him — smoothing his footprints out of the mud , rubbing his fingerprints off the door handles . |
| 22 | Now what if something had been coming the other way ? |
| 23 | THE THIRD Test on the 1974–75 tour was at Sydney and everything had been going well . |
| 24 | Before she had come here , she had had her life sorted out and everything had been running smoothly . |
| 25 | IF ONE HAD been going to cast anyone in the title role of a movie called Little Big Man , there would not have been many actors in Hollywood one could have thought of besides Dustin Hoffman . |
| 26 | Rock'n'roll has become so totally predictable and everybody has been doing exactly the same thing now for , like , 25 years . |
| 27 | At last the Barracks loomed into sight , and if anyone had been peeping from the window at that unsociable hour , they might have been hard put to distinguish which was the boy and which the shadow . |
| 28 | If anyone had been paying any attention , they would have seen the drooping head suddenly lift , the hands come away from the mouth , and the strained facial muscles relax . |
| 29 | Thus , if we know of an author who wrote a very good book or article a few years ago on our chosen topic we can look up his name to see if anyone has been citing that article recently . |
| 30 | If anything had been moving they would have seen it immediately : and where the turf ended , the sky began . |