Example sentences of "have been [v-ing] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dunwoody had in the past won on Norton 's Coin and would have been riding him in the Gold Cup had Desert Orchid been absent . |
| 2 | Now several mornings a week when perhaps she should have been concerning herself with the house ( she delegated more and more to the housekeeper , who after all had run everything before she , Lily , had come ) , she would go and sit with Sadie , who was expecting another child at Christmas . |
| 3 | He might have been receiving her in the best parlour on a Sunday afternoon . |
| 4 | and of course and we would have been patting ourselves on the back saying we could go in under |
| 5 | I may have been approaching it from the wrong angle . |
| 6 | well I 've given many , many different answers here , I could have been here all day , giving you just between point five and point six , and you 'd have been giving one as the answer every time . |
| 7 | The alternator , which should have been recharging it during the flight , for some reason was n't . |
| 8 | The alternator , which should have been recharging it during the flight , for some reason was n't . |
| 9 | He might have been asking her about the traffic on the way in from the airport . |
| 10 | perhaps the Company 's lack of comment on its own future , which must increasingly have been worrying them at the turn of the century . |
| 11 | I thought — if it had been my parents who had been talking , they would have been doing it at the tops of their voices , for surely on the content alone that conversation had been a row . |