Example sentences of "have [been] [v-ing] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | They must have been riding for a long time , but there was no sign of a large town , only a solitary light shining ahead . |
| 2 | But I might have been speaking to a corpse , she was so pale and still and silent . |
| 3 | ‘ The person who put this together must have been living in a box for the last 10 years . ’ |
| 4 | Whitaker and Milton would have been trying for a unique hat-trick in this , the most important of all indoor championships , after winning in Dortmund in 1990 and Gothenburg last year . |
| 5 | This critic may have been thinking of a well-known passage in one of the Nativity sermons in which Andrewes keeps up a series of puns in Hebrew , Latin and English for three pages on the word Emmanuel : ‘ If it be not Immanu-el , it will be Immanu-hell … . |
| 6 | She might have been reading from a tombstone . |
| 7 | Police think whoever did it may have been searching for a non existant stache of money . |
| 8 | Freud may have been writing at a time of increasing urbanisation resulting from rapid industrialisation , but it is not at all clear that his work has any specifically ‘ urban ’ connotations . |
| 9 | In analysing the new acting Ferguson was nearer the mark when he suggested that the movies were now coming up with richer and more vital people but Daugherty 's comments serve to remind us that techniques and styles which should have been feeding into a new cinema of experimentation and realism were being used rather to bolster old conventions of melodrama . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | An initial point is that the LDDC could not have been operating in a more favourable environment . |
| 12 | well look erm , my Lord the fact that , I , I think the answer would go like this , that , if the agent had sued the name then the defence would of been similar to that which is raised here , erm , but it would probably , it would of had additional elements because the name would have been enforcing through a , a , a slightly a slightly different |
| 13 | In repose Biff 's arm hung in mid-air ; he might have been recuperating in a wing of the Apothacarion with his limb in traction … |
| 14 | They must have been watching from a hill-top as I rode towards them because suddenly I was surrounded by a company of about 40 soldiers , all aged between 17 and 18 years . |
| 15 | When he looked at the picture of Tace he might have been looking into a mirror . |
| 16 | And the car was such a mess nobody would have been looking for a sawn brake cable . ’ |
| 17 | Must have been looking for a house . |
| 18 | THE New Zealand selectors of the World XV who invited South African centre MARTIN KNOETZE to step in for England 's Will Carling have been labouring under a rather severe misapprehension . |
| 19 | I 'll have been feeling in a different way when I 've painted something three months ago , so it would be wrong to go back and work on it again . |
| 20 | Villagers could have been sitting on a chemical poison with untold consequences to health . |
| 21 | By rights , Kate — my partner 's secretary — should have been sitting at a desk in the foyer doing the initial vetting , but you beat us to it ; you were very quick off the mark . |
| 22 | A close friend said last night : ‘ The agony for Graham will have been coming to a decision with Brenda . |
| 23 | I mean what else what what sort of size pension fund would you have been negotiating with a a business ? |
| 24 | So , let's think about our objectives , first of all an objective , I might have come to Abbey Life to make money , last year , I might have been working in a factory , earning fifteen , twelve , fifteen thousand a year , and I might make my objective in my first year with Abbey Life to earn sixty thousand pounds . |
| 25 | The lighting cameraman may have been going through a bad patch , or simply been driven crazy by the sort of director who ca n't make up their mind about anything . |
| 26 | They must have been waiting in a car , as neither wore an overcoat and both were suddenly there smack in front of me , blocking the pavement , tantalizingly close to home . |
| 27 | Sheriff Risk rejected suggestions that the Sikorsky should not have been landing on a restricted helideck . |
| 28 | Cureton 's entry opens with a detailed and well-referenced history of stylistics , but suggests that it may have been suffering from a loss of confidence in the recent past . |
| 29 | Ellwood could have been talking to a simpleton . |
| 30 | The other monkeys might have been responding to a visual signal or they may have seen the leopard themselves . |