Example sentences of "have [been] [v-ing] on [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If she had searched his bedroom earlier , she thought ruefully , she would not have been shivering on the pavement in a black pullover and jeans at two o'clock in the morning , carrying a large screwdriver . |
| 2 | ‘ So you could n't go as far as saying who it might have been calling on the Rector at that late hour ? ’ |
| 3 | Or the link between inflation and unemployment may simply have been operating on a long lag , with the old , high NAIRU returning after several years to smack ministers in the face . |
| 4 | Later at the inquest ( which he did n't attend ) , he admitted through his lawyer that he may have been driving on the wrong side of the road . |
| 5 | Villagers could have been sitting on a chemical poison with untold consequences to health . |
| 6 | ‘ From the position of the body I think he could have been sitting on the edge of the bed . |
| 7 | My whole thinking , every waking moment should have been concentrating on the 100 metres in which I was still convinced , despite losing to Carl in Madrid earlier in the season , that I could take the gold medal . |
| 8 | He must have been working on the paper about the same time as he was writing the papers of Totem and Taboo , or just afterwards . |
| 9 | A separate report indicated that Iran may have been working on the development of such a weapon on and off for a good decade . |
| 10 | Had the operator of the giant video screen been allowed to go on merrily replaying the more explosive moments , there could have been rioting on the terraces , where already the stewards had their work cut out . |
| 11 | Sheriff Risk rejected suggestions that the Sikorsky should not have been landing on a restricted helideck . |
| 12 | ‘ The assassin must have been lying on the ground or Father standing on some steps ? |