Example sentences of "have [pers pn] [been] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Has it been going this lesson ?
2 Has he been left any money by somebody ? ’
3 Had she been expecting any apology , though , Fabia realised then that she would have been disappointed for , ‘ Hrm , ’ was all he grunted , and , handing the letter back , he scrutinised her with a hard look , and Fabia had the feeling that he thought that she was the one in the wrong !
4 HAD SHE been born 10 years ago , baby Jessica Kelly would by now have spent most of her life in hospital .
5 Had she been asked that minute what her exact feelings were , she might have said , I have done what I can for Andrée , if she 's going to blow cold again , if she does n't want to see me any more , vogue la galère , I shall have to survive , I shall .
6 What had you been doing that day ?
7 exactly , but why wait until nineteen eighty eight to discover that , how long had you been doing these estimates for ? , how many years have you been doing ?
8 What had you been going that day ?
9 What 've you been doing all day today ? .
10 What they might have heard however , had they been passing ten minutes later , even above the noise of the traffic and the raging of the wind , was a roar of someone in pain , a great and agonizing cry .
11 Had they been born 15 years earlier , Tumbleweed would probably wear loon pants and big belts and be called something like Satan 's Spaceship .
12 Neither had they been given extra hay the night before .
13 Virginia Bottomley , a health minister , said many of the 3,000 people sleeping rough in the city might have stayed at home had they been given enough attention earlier .
14 Indeed , had they been defending British farmers , particularly , those producing lamb , they would have achieved only a load of jelly — and red at that .
15 So erm w if Had he been doing digging graves when he was in Suffolk ?
16 The bus stops again at the Kensington Hilton , a hotel so much on the edge of Kensington that had it been built 10 feet to the west , they should have called it the Shepherds Bush Hilton .
17 ‘ And how have I been spending this summer ?
18 Have you been eating this cake ?
19 Have you been watching that gardening programme ?
20 Have you been buying naughty things again Joelle ?
21 ‘ How many terms have you been training that cat , Mildred ? ’ said Miss Hardbroom .
22 Have you been filling that book in as you 've been erm
23 ‘ Hmm , ’ said Marcus , ‘ Have you been moving these pieces about when I was n't looking ? ’
24 Have you been offered many portrait commissions ?
25 Have you been nicking bloody recipes again ?
26 ‘ What have you been studying this morning then , eh ? ’
27 What have you been doing all day — walking round with the Michelin , looking at churches ? ’
28 I know you have n't been doing any English and that , but erm , have you have you been doing much reading ?
29 So what have you been doing this morning Em , lots of work .
30 What else have you been doing wrong Kelly ?
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