Example sentences of "have [verb] have been [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It must have been a dismal job for those children , who , like children everywhere , would have preferred to have been playing rather than handling ton after ton of cold wet ore and stone . |
| 2 | No , I would have had to have been snatching them from the cradle then . |
| 3 | When eventually they saw Dunbar , he was hardly forthcoming , being especially suspicious of Ramsay , whom he had heard had been visiting Dunbar Castle , and wanting to know why . |
| 4 | Now C twenty eight that some people who I 've noticed have been talking one minute . |
| 5 | As you will have noticed , the strategies we have reviewed have been operating back along the stress cycle ( as shown in Figure 1 on page 70 ) at points nearer and nearer the source . |