Example sentences of "have been [verb] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Well why did n't they get a mile away from where they put that money they could 've , they could 've been planned it away , a mile away all |
| 32 | and what they did , and you were there , and you must 've been listening , what they did , percent for people , they moved it up to Policy and Resources , Policy and Resources percent for people came around , Councillor spoke . |
| 33 | Erm so maybe we could we 've been using sodium a lot try calcium because it 's interesting cos it 's got a double one a double positive negative is it ? |
| 34 | Should 've been called ‘ I Missed The Charts ’ . |
| 35 | Somebody would 've been drunk that night you see , half past nine at night , thought it was a good trick . |
| 36 | she must 've been holding it in because she did n't wan na wipe her bum with her hand and then you know it just burst out before she could get to the toilet . |
| 37 | ‘ Probably because , in a crossfire , some of the family could 've been killed . ’ |
| 38 | Staff are angry at the thought the duck 's may 've been mistreated |
| 39 | It has to be checked for any messages that could 've been left . ’ |
| 40 | i i i in a sense it is a , it is a shift to the left because under the May the fourth directive erm rich peasants in particular would 've been left out of it altogether and there would still be some landlords who were , who would maintain their property but , but now he 's shifted to the left and this , this does represent a further attack on landlords cos , cos everybody comes down to the same level . |
| 41 | ‘ I hear you 've been talking to my Hilda and young Ralph . ’ |
| 42 | ‘ I hear you 've been talking to our friends in Manila , ’ he says , chattily , as though the difference in our rank means nothing to him . |
| 43 | No but it must 've been talking about youngsters having cars |
| 44 | But they could 've been talking about something personal and we would 've heard everything they said . |
| 45 | I mean I did ask you about the outstanding bills and loans whereas if we 'd 've been doing the thing properly we 'd 've gone through that |
| 46 | Well I mean I do I 've been doing aerobics a long time . |
| 47 | Now going back into the Hebrew scriptures , you 'll find there that this sort of staying awake counsel , an idea was there long before the days of Jesus and the Apostles and people 's lives were involved in its state , even in those days , let's just let us have a look at one , Isaiah forty two eighteen to twenty now this terms it slightly different , but when you look at it and analyze it , you realize he 's talking about exactly the same thing , it 's regarding the nation of Israel who turned away from Jehovah , they were n't doing what they should be doing , or should 've been doing as he 's pleading with them look there , that look here , here you deaf ones , well we know the nation of Israel were n't all physically deaf , they were like we are , perhaps had a few deaf individuals amongst them , but |
| 48 | I do n't they 've been doing anything to me yet okay . |
| 49 | He woke on top of her , she might 've been a beach , he might 've been abandoned there by waves . |
| 50 | It could 've been abandoned , they could have moved on but maybe it was seen as a taboo place , we just do n't know . |
| 51 | Erm the issue is is that potentially you could be goi we could 've been going for four point three extra people and we probably wo n't do that . |
| 52 | The slow-crawl music they produced might 've been linked with hardcore , but it was really ‘ the end of rock , the dying throes ’ . |
| 53 | It 's not very nice when you 're driving the vehicle and er I know you 're all experienced drivers and then you get somebody sitting there alongside you starting to look at you do , and I I you could 've been driving all your life but you still feel a bit edgy and a bit tense . |
| 54 | No it 's erm , on , on Monday , on Monday morning they could 've been working |
| 55 | You see I 've been entrusted with the task of getting him safely back to the Reich and I 've little more than three weeks to do it in . ’ |
| 56 | ‘ We hear you 've been selling Victor carthorses . |
| 57 | ‘ She may 've been murdered , ’ said Constance . |
| 58 | she 's it could 've been saying |
| 59 | Yeah he must 've been following her about . |
| 60 | The device could 've been planted as early as Saturday morning and police want to speak to anyone who went there from that time , to when the alarm was raised yesterday . |