Example sentences of "have [be] [v-ing] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | It would have been a long walk to here , and no doubt some other person would have been offering a dubious lift by the time she arrived . |
| 32 | The defences could have been protecting an Imperial establishment rather than a small town . |
| 33 | It would just have been having a good time . |
| 34 | 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 " . |
| 35 | ‘ All the more reason why he should have been having the full attention of you both , ’ Doctor Staples said sharply . |
| 36 | If you are self-employed you will have been paving a flat-rate Class 2 contribution every week and possibly the earnings-related Class 4 contributions as well . |
| 37 | He must have been playing the beastly thing for years . |
| 38 | The suggestion was that his subordinates might have been running the illegal operation . |
| 39 | ‘ Prince Charles should have been running an organic farm , with special interests in the arts . |
| 40 | Neil Ruddock 's goal midway through the first half lit the fuse … and when Steve McManaman exploded a right footer just before half-time every Town fan must have been fearing the worst … |
| 41 | While agreeing broadly with the England manager 's summing-up of the present Brazilian team , the thought did occur that in another footballing era he could have been describing an Italian side — brilliant in breakaways but giving nothing away at the back . |
| 42 | But voters whose preferences have been distributed between these two parties will have been doing no more than indicate acceptable alternatives , of which the basic pattern must have been , " Let that candidate of Party B have my vote IF and only IF my higher preference for this candidate of Party A has not been effective " . |
| 43 | And if he involved himself in military activity , he would simply have been discharging the martial duty expected of him as royal liberator . |