Example sentences of "have [be] [v-ing] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Second , they should have been using heroin regularly for a period of at least two years . |
| 2 | He could have been composing rubbish for all I was competent to judge , yet that possibility did not enter my head . |
| 3 | He would have been supplying booze to restaurants and nightclubs . |
| 4 | of all divers seen have been moving east up the coast . |
| 5 | The gallery would have been facing East . |
| 6 | She should have been sharing breakfast with Kelly right now , laughing and chatting , catching up on all that had been happening over the past few months . |
| 7 | Latterly , they would have been reading Virgin books , watching Virgin videos and Virgin films . |
| 8 | Confident that their management would have been monitoring progress closely , the men depended on the judgement of their supervisors . |
| 9 | Mick added : ‘ I was pretty proud , but if I 'd cooked it , I 'd have been eating pumpkin pie all year . ’ |
| 10 | She might as well have been eating spam . |
| 11 | say ca n't recall , we would have been recommending contingency fund |
| 12 | Perot was furious ; instead of chasing chimeras , his money could have been earning interest in the bank . |
| 13 | In fact , the high quality of iron ore available to the Romans in Britain combined with the use of charcoal fuel in the smelting process , meant that they could have been producing steel which would have given a much harder and sharper edge to the blade than normal iron . |
| 14 | You must have been expecting trouble . ’ |
| 15 | Thus he must have been singing falsetto in this role . |
| 16 | But had not Deller opened the door to a professional career for higher voices , they might all have been singing baritone today . |
| 17 | This is an excellent opportunity for students to consolidate their studies and deal with any outstanding aspects which may have been causing difficulty . |
| 18 | This result could have been due to the inclusion of mostly elderly patients in the control group who may have been harbouring M tuberculosis from a primary asymptomatic tuberculous infection , which was common in their youth . |
| 19 | The fact that after the Great War the Liberal party went into decline and the Labour party emerged as a governmental party seemed to indicate that the most interesting developments must have been taking place on the left of British politics , even before the war . |
| 20 | Britain would now be in the fortunate position of having had , in 1991 , nothing worse than a shallow and short-lived recession , from which a smart recovery would already have been taking place for several quarters , with no balance of payments constraint and little rise in unemployment . |
| 21 | They had taken the very unusual step of advertising in the local newspaper for anyone to come forward who knew of any ritual practices that might have been taking place in South Ronaldsay . |
| 22 | But D.W. Winnicott may be helpful in this context in suggesting what sort of process might have been taking place . |
| 23 | But without Violet Blake , this match would not have been taking place . |
| 24 | either subconsciously or consciously interpreted them to , to mean something other than actually what may have been taking place . |
| 25 | The Minoans were capable of producing a large surplus of olive oil which could have been exported ; some of the oil filling the store-rooms of the Knossos Labyrinth at the time of the 1380 BC fire may have been awaiting export . |
| 26 | They must have been unpacking Rice Crispies . |
| 27 | Last year the taxman pocketed 550 million from people who should not have been paying tax — or who paid too much . |
| 28 | This presumably posed a risk to airline uniforms ; was likely to distract passengers ( the male ones at any rate ) at a time when they should have been paying attention to the cabin staff for rather different reasons ; and carried the ultimate danger of the implant exploding . |
| 29 | I suppose I should have been paying attention to the old artist , when he was telling me that the thing had to be carried in near-vacuum with traces of helium and neon but definitely no oxygen , which would destroy it . |
| 30 | I do n't think he was any more upset , but I might n't have been paying attention . ’ |