Example sentences of "have been [v-ing] in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mind , neither Noodle nor Blueboobs would have been sittin' in that room amongst troopies and other enemies , jus ' twiddlin' their thumbs , in the first place … |
| 2 | It 's thought they may have been drinking in this pub on Wellingborough road earlier in the evening . |
| 3 | Although the scribes no doubt made ‘ errors ’ , it should be possible to investigate variable texts in extenso to determine the extent to which variation in spelling ( or indeed in other linguistic dimensions ) is in fact orderly , and whether this variation can help us to work out what might have been happening in spoken English at the time . |
| 4 | A State Department official said : ‘ This could have been happening in other places , too . ’ |
| 5 | Occasionally a light showed silver , faint in one of the streets below , and but for that , and for the sounds as their feet struck the timbers of a bridge , they might have been walking in some open courtyard instead of in narrow alleys raised between the walls of tall buildings . |
| 6 | The drawings show some common occupations for women in 1880 and what their great-grand-daughters may have been doing in 1980 . |
| 7 | What could he have been doing in that little field but reconnoitring the back premises of the house at the far end — even breaking in , there had been burglaries lately . |