Example sentences of "have been [v-ing] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps they should have been using better cutlery , thought Robert , or calling Hasan ‘ sir ’ and making sure he had the best chair . |
| 2 | If this reconstruction is sound , Oswiu 's encounter with Fín occurred at about the time that he may have been seeking Irish support against the forces of Penda . |
| 3 | Must have been raining last night . |
| 4 | ' … which he thought he might have been wearing that afternoon and then changed his mind and said he had n't , ’ continued Harris , unperturbed by the interruption . |
| 5 | She must have been straining all day . |
| 6 | Esau can not have been expecting such remorse , such willingness to make amends from Jacob . |
| 7 | ‘ Another smile like the one you were giving him and he would have been fastening that ribbon himself . |
| 8 | It must have been discouraging that Adieu was not thought worthy to be given at Sadler 's Wells , and that the more handsome setting which Stevenson had designed for it was not used at that time . |
| 9 | In many cases the acquitted defendant will have been receiving legal aid . |
| 10 | My friend says I should not have been taking this drug during my pregnancy and that it is well known that it can cause these problems . |
| 11 | My friend says I should not have been taking this drug during my pregnancy and that it is well known that it can cause these problems . |
| 12 | ‘ I must have been feeling manic depressive when I had this done . |
| 13 | The death of Matthew Makepeace , the man who should have been lecturing that afternoon , ‘ one of the most promising scholars of his generation ’ , the old Professor used to tell us , was ‘ an inestimable loss to the department and the university as a whole ’ . |
| 14 | The Review Panel would have had to try to persuade the court that complying with FRED 1 failed to give a true and fair view , and it would have been presenting this argument at the same time that companies generally were being compelled to comply with FRS 3 ( a not fundamentally revised version of FRED 1 ) in order to give a true and fair view . |
| 15 | But I As I say I were young and I would n't have been paying particular attention . |
| 16 | We are going through enormous changes in the education system at the moment and as Governors we have had to struggle terribly hard to learn how to govern schools as more power and more authority has been devolved to us , and we should have been spending this year erm working together on learning how to run a more successful school , and instead erm we 've had to waste a hell of a lot of time on really what was an absolute political nonsense and irrelevance , and I am glad we can turn aside from that . |
| 17 | When I lived right on the job it used to drive my wife round the bend — I 'd be at home on a weekend , perhaps in the garden , and I 'd think about something in the greenhouse across the road so I 'd go over there and disappear for an hour whereas perhaps I should have been giving more time to my family . |
| 18 | With his hand pressed firmly to a creased brown , Spencer uttered : ‘ Oh man , if I 'd known you were gon na wear shoes like that , we would n't have been having this conversation … ‘ |
| 19 | Although there may have been surviving some notion of the tradition of ordered government from the ancient world , in actuality Rome had no strong , centralized government since classical times . |
| 20 | You 'd have been smouldering next morning , would n't she Charlie ? |
| 21 | ‘ I see you have been studying local history , Melissa , ’ he observed , indicating the book . |
| 22 | ‘ We ca n't have been running all day . |
| 23 | ‘ Then I catch up with what I should have been doing all day . |
| 24 | The Crown said Wilson co-operated fully with detectives and although the total amount of drugs had a street value of £40,000 , the ‘ relative margins ’ for each link in the chain meant Wilson would not have been making significant money . |