Example sentences of "have be [verb] about " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I think , ’ he said , ‘ that everyone might have been flung about a bit . |
| 2 | There they would have been complaining about the weather , the European Commission 's new fishing controls and the imminence of bankruptcy . |
| 3 | He should n't have been thinking about things like that at his age ! ’ |
| 4 | Well , by April 1982 , surely the Cabinet should have been thinking about it . |
| 5 | But with the Official Custodian sending back these investments , the trustees will have to think of what they should have been thinking about years ago : management of their trust funds . ’ |
| 6 | The word ‘ championship ’ , however , no matter how much he may have been thinking about it privately , I did not hear from him until much later in the year , when the scales began to tip in his favour . |
| 7 | She should have been thinking about the boys ' tea , and about Frederick 's dinner . |
| 8 | No and we 'd got three young girls , new , new girls and I saw those and I must have been thinking about Mandy and the car because they said something about oh when we leave we 're all going on a picnic to and I think it was Kettering or quite some time aw some |
| 9 | If anaphors were to be resolved one at a time and left to right , nothing would yet have been done about ‘ him ’ , so the configurational contribution would be missed and reasoning would be inevitable . |
| 10 | He could have been writing about van Gogh . |
| 11 | ‘ All right , ’ he conceded , ‘ I may have been mistaken about Richard , but can you blame me ? |
| 12 | Elise ca n't have been mistaken about the tears . ’ |
| 13 | The fact that an unknown " civilian " should have been consulted about what was indeed a purely Service matter , should be weighed against Bennett 's unequalled background and experience . |
| 14 | But the work could last for as long as 11 weeks and local councillors have claimed that they should have been consulted about the scheme . |
| 15 | If these social problems had not been so evidently worrying , it is highly unlikely that the active citizen would ever have been heard about . |
| 16 | This was a fair question , although the same could have been asked about his relationship with Wimbledon Parish Church . |
| 17 | And ‘ Perfect Day To Drop The Bomb ’ could have been written about America . ’ |
| 18 | For example , if you choose to write an essay on the novel A Very Quiet Street by the contemporary Glasgow author Frank Kuppner , you may not find it easy to get any critical work either on the book itself or on this writer ( since no books may have been written about him ) . |
| 19 | Those opening words from Marx 's Capital could have been written about the long postwar boom , the most striking feature of which was a quite breathtaking growth in production . |
| 20 | We do not buy live poultry from the local market and carry it home squawking and then wring its neck , nor do we insist that the fish we order in a restaurant should have been swimming about only moments before . |
| 21 | All this time I had had to try hard not to think of what my parents must have been feeling about my going away . |
| 22 | I also hoped she had n't told him about Frankie 's and my rudeness although why I should have been bothered about him I ca n't think . |
| 23 | I would n't have been bothered about any other cos you see it better on the , on the screen . |
| 24 | Politicians representing other Basque parties have therefore felt left out , and believe the public should have been informed about the negotiations at the beginning , in view of the huge scale of the financing involved . |
| 25 | One obvious thing to do would have been to write about the facilities available to homeless people ( or the chronic lack of them in key areas like medical help ) ; however , I have decided against doing that . |
| 26 | And in this last day , she must have been camping about , I do n't know how , but somehow she was traversing I she probably did n't she was using the living room as a store , I could only think that , she could n't possibly live in it . |
| 27 | I do n't think he may have been told about that , now he himself if he knew about that , that might be sufficient digging him over this hill |
| 28 | I 'm not saying that people would have never changed their ideas but if it would have been done in the manner that it would have been done in in the first place and if people would have been told about their future lives and if people had been , would 've accepted what was going on in light of all the decisions that have been taken previously regarding the merger issue . |
| 29 | The continuation of high risk behaviour in this group , who would have been counselled about safe sex when tested for HIV-1 infection , is of particular concern , as are seroconversions in those known to have had a negative test result . |
| 30 | — Anyway , he must have been lying about Mr Bishop . |