Example sentences of "[vb infin] been [v-ing] an [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I thought you 'd have been buying an oil well or something like that . |
| 2 | Musician to the end , he died through insisting on conducting a new revival of Castor et Pollux when he should have been nursing an illness . |
| 3 | They would have been paying an interest rate of 11.75 p.c. — which increased to 15 p.c. in January 1980 — compared with the current rate of about 10.95 p.c . |
| 4 | He might have been giving an apple to a horse . |
| 5 | It was conceded that had any individual shareholder held a sufficient block to give him ‘ control ’ of the company then he might have been entitled to a higher price than the total market value of his shares , since he would then have been selling an item of property — control — additional to his shares . |