Example sentences of "then have [be] [v-ing] " in BNC.

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1 Her career since then has been challenging and varied .
2 It was conceded that had any individual shareholder held a sufficient block to give him ‘ control ’ of the company then he might have been entitled to a higher price than the total market value of his shares , since he would then have been selling an item of property — control — additional to his shares .
3 Tension would then have been growing by the hour , and it must have been hard indeed for the men to keep themselves from being overstressed by apprehension and excitement .
4 Had the defendant been aware , it is submitted , he would have had no defence , since he would then have been making a mistake as to whether or not the policeman was justified in seeking to restrain him , and whether he was therefore acting in the execution of his duty .
5 A couple of months earlier , Buhler had been introduced to Coleman by Marshall Lee Miller in Washington , and since then had been urging Shaughnessy to talk to Coleman because he had ‘ a great deal of interesting information concerning the crash of Flight 103 ’ .
6 Stamford was killed : in the 1850s its population , which until then had been rising steadily , actually began to fall .
7 I was stuck in hospital for three weeks and since then have been shuffling around behind that thing . ’
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