Example sentences of "have [pers pn] be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is an important implication of this that they are never a matter of how the things which have them are related to other things . |
| 2 | The shortage of Pentiums is so bad that those that have them are said to be ‘ tea-bagging ’ them — moving their precious chips from system to system to prove to customers that their box works , then quickly back into the safe . |
| 3 | Why have I been treated in such a cowardly and despicable manner ? ’ |
| 4 | Then whom or what have I been seeing , Mrs Ridley ? |
| 5 | ‘ What have I been eating ? ’ |
| 6 | Have I been sending people out to do this ? |
| 7 | Have I been breaking that ? |
| 8 | Or ( how many years have I been promising myself this ? ) sorting out the stock cupboard/prep room ? |
| 9 | What have I been criticized for at work ? |
| 10 | What the f— have I been drinking ? |
| 11 | ‘ Not only have I been separated from my wife for the past five years — but in all that time I 've only once managed to make love to her . |
| 12 | ‘ Nowhere have I been presented with so many extraordinary opportunities for startlingly fresh and original material for radio , ’ he says of Greenland , where he borrows a cassette and goes out recording ‘ wild track ’ ( a technical term that he expects us to know , meaning the sound background you hear when the broadcaster mercifully shuts up . ) |
| 13 | what , what have I been shouting ? |
| 14 | Have I been reduced in size ? |
| 15 | ‘ I have encountered many species in my time , Fakrid , ’ he concluded , ‘ but never have I been forced to endure such unfounded bombast ! ’ |
| 16 | Husband or wife do get excluded for instance because the marriage has not been a particularly happy one erm and there would therefore be no particular one why the deceased would leave anything to spouses erm but it 's worth saying so if that 's the case , to prevent an action coming along and saying Oi why am I not being there , why have I been left out ? |
| 17 | Nor have I been encouraged ever since to think there 's an exact science . |
| 18 | What have I been praised for at work ? |
| 19 | When we pointed the ending out to them , some said " You mean you can sometimes tell what a chapter is about by looking at the end " and others said " 0 Lord , how many times have I been told ! " |
| 20 | Well what have I been doing ? |
| 21 | What have I been saying ? |
| 22 | ‘ And how have I been spending this summer ? |
| 23 | It were bad where erm Have I been talking in that thing all time ? |
| 24 | Where have ye been keepin' yourself ? ’ |
| 25 | It seems to me that while you work initially for local councils and local councillors who should , obviously , be the people who have the power and the say , and far be it from me to recommend that you ignore or even threaten to undermine the democratic process , however imperfect it it it may it may be , you have you are working for that local council . |
| 26 | ‘ Have you been digging up ferns ? |
| 27 | Have you been meddling with someone 's girlfriend ? ’ |
| 28 | ‘ Have you been engaged for long ? ’ |
| 29 | ‘ So how many times have you been engaged ? ’ |
| 30 | Stuart , Gavin Have you been mistaken for Oxford fans yet ? |