Example sentences of "have be [adv prt] " in BNC.

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1 What they might 've been up to .
2 But if I 'd 've , if I 'd 've been up I 'd 've got it .
3 You could 've been on
4 I could have stayed at Street till I was fourteen , I could have stayed at Street until I was fourteen , and then you would 've been out .
5 Purists might argue he should 've been out in the colds using his sketchbook , instead of a camera , but he disagrees .
6 I must 've been out at the wrong time .
7 He wou he would 've been down there .
8 It should 've been back by now , some day in March , twenty eighth of March
9 If you 'd 've known then what you knew after you wouldn't 've thought it were funny , you 'd 've not been chucking nowt you 'd 've been off .
10 But , apart from a winter break , whatever is planned around the 23rd relates to one specific plan or association which has been on and off for several months and is now back on again .
11 ‘ On a machine that no nome has been on for fifteen thousand years ? ’ said Masklin .
12 Branch has been on .
13 This is quite often the cause of the ‘ 1701 — hard disk error ’ reported during Power On Self Test when the drive is cold which miraculously seems to cure itself when the system has been on for a while and the drive has warmed up ’ .
14 ‘ A girl called Louise Stacey has been on to them , asking how she could contact you .
15 ‘ I hear the English faculty has been on to Humphrey already , ’ he volunteered .
16 Since then the search has been on to acquire a Lockheed Constellation for the collection .
17 My department 's equivalent of Inspector Morse has been on to the change-of-address problem .
18 The honourable member has been on to say that his mother was upset about her appearance here , not least because she felt it was invading her privacy .
19 I , I have n't been on but you 're the first people I 've told this to , I have been out with somebody who has been on
20 And me bloody petrol gauge has been on half way along Scunnie Road .
21 It has been on before .
22 A friend of mine Dave who wrote half the album with me and produced the album has been on at me for five years , come on let's make an album , let's make an album , let's make an album , making a , let's make an album er and a few record companies have come on and they 've always wanted me to do an album like maybe , let's prepackage old sixties ' songs and revise them , or let's do love themes from T V shows and which would never have interested me , so I said to Dave , you know when a record company comes with an offer to make an album , to do the album I wan na do then we 'll do one .
23 Version 1 of Rescalc has been around for some years and is today regarded as rather palaeolithic .
24 Brittle bone disease , or osteogenesis imperfecta , has been around for at least 4,000 years .
25 Strangely enough the best stress-buster of all has been around for thousands of years : massage .
26 Chaka Khan has been around forever , and recently her trademark whoops and screams have sounded a little forced .
27 I can not take the credit for inventing this — it has been around for many years .
28 Electronics is a universal tool that has been around for a while and which can be used to control electrical circuits — not a common art form .
29 The idea has been around for 80 years .
30 The theory of risk compensation , which has been around for years , says that drivers adjust the amount of risks they take to keep their perceived level of risk constant .
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