Example sentences of "have been [v-ing] to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You must have been listening to the B.B.C. or something . ’ |
| 2 | And it gets in your hair and it gets in your clothes , she must have been listening to the television . |
| 3 | But I might have been speaking to a corpse , she was so pale and still and silent . |
| 4 | I can see my life as a road , and I can go back on that road and see what I 've passed and come to terms with what I have passed by without realising and appreciating ; how I 've stopped in various cafes on the way and met interesting people in them and had fascinating conversations when all the time I should have been speaking to the person on the next table instead . ’ |
| 5 | I can see my life as a road , and I can go back on that road and see what I 've passed and come to terms with and what I have passed by without realising and appreciating ; how I 've stopped in various cafes on the way and met interesting people in them and had fascinating conversations when all the time I should have been speaking to the person on the next table instead . ’ |
| 6 | But perhaps Governor Clinton 's most remarkable achievement will have been bringing to an end the Reagan-Bush years . |
| 7 | ‘ When he did so , he would have been holding to an instinctive belief that the signal behind him would inevitably have gone to red . |
| 8 | The Rhodesia Metals case was referred to in the Hang Seng Bank case [ 1991 ] 1 A.C. 306 and it follows that when Lord Bridge used the words ‘ place where the property was let ’ he must have been referring to the place where the property let was situated and not to the place or places where the lease happened to have been signed . |
| 9 | A close friend said last night : ‘ The agony for Graham will have been coming to a decision with Brenda . |
| 10 | A Royal Ulster Constabulary spokesman said : ‘ Although he may have been coming to the end of his racing career , he was potentially valuable for stud purposes . ’ |
| 11 | In Imperial Gothic he should have been praying to the God-Emperor for help . |
| 12 | Martin and Roberts ( 1984 , pp. 11–12 ) found that older women , many of whom would not have been contributing to the state pension scheme in their own right , tended to leave the labour market in their mid-fifties . |
| 13 | Comparison of ‘ To Lucinda ’ with the first publication of ‘ The Rural Maid 's Reflexions ’ shows that Browne , for whatever reason , changed at least one title , though he may have been returning to the original . |
| 14 | Ellwood could have been talking to a simpleton . |
| 15 | He might have been talking to the sheep when he said softly : |
| 16 | The other monkeys might have been responding to a visual signal or they may have seen the leopard themselves . |