Example sentences of "[vb infin] been [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What Mr Sutherland can 've been thinking of , I do n't know . |
| 2 | I hear you 've been looking at Eggle guitars … |
| 3 | ‘ I hear you 've been talking to my Hilda and young Ralph . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ 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 . |
| 5 | No but it must 've been talking about youngsters having cars |
| 6 | But they could 've been talking about something personal and we would 've heard everything they said . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | I do n't think we would 've been standing outside the gates . |
| 9 | And there 's Master Tristram pretending he 's not listening to his father , who might 've been sitting in the Fowey stocks by now if it was n't for that same father 's efforts . " |
| 10 | See I 've been coming for years with mouth ulcers . |
| 11 | She 'd 've been lying on Spanish beaches with her eyes tight shut knowing that every Spanish boy who passed would fancy her . |
| 12 | The crowd seemed to be getting a little impatient just before the goal ( as I 'm sure we all were listening to it on the radio ) but can you imagine what the scum crowd would ahve been doing to their team if they had n't scored within twenty minutes ? |
| 13 | He had thought they were at least speaking to one another privately , but if Jim had really sworn an affidavit he must have been listening on another telephone . |
| 14 | A TRIAL was halted yesterday after complaints that magistrates had fallen asleep when they should have been listening to evidence . |
| 15 | He might have been listening to Moses when he came down from the mountain . |
| 16 | You must have been listening to the B.B.C. or something . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ It 's not a pleasant thought that he could have been listening to , and taping , our conversations . ’ |
| 18 | And it gets in your hair and it gets in your clothes , she must have been listening to the television . |
| 19 | He referred to the Man City game which he must have been listening to on Manc Radio . |
| 20 | They must have been riding for a long time , but there was no sign of a large town , only a solitary light shining ahead . |
| 21 | I think it would have been the Zetland , and — who knows — Mrs Field may have been riding with them that day . |
| 22 | Brian Inglis , a writer on the paranormal , said the spoof could have been damaging for those who had had ghostly experiences . |
| 23 | If it was n't exactly political pessimism of the order of ‘ mourir pour Danzig ’ it must have been alarming for Americans to hear from High Commissioner Pignon 's diplomatic adviser of the feeling that French interests were not important enough to die for because the country was being given over to the Vietnamese and when the war was over French influence would have disappeared . |
| 24 | There is an habitual inability to see the logical wood for the emotional trees , as the less discerning will have been proving since the final whistle sounded at Celtic Park . |
| 25 | I can see my life as a road , and I can go back on that road and see what I 've passed and come to terms with what I have passed by without realising and appreciating ; how I 've stopped in various cafes on the way and met interesting people in them and had fascinating conversations when all the time I should have been speaking to the person on the next table instead . ’ |
| 26 | I may have been speaking to Francis but I 'm not certain of that . |
| 27 | I can see my life as a road , and I can go back on that road and see what I 've passed and come to terms with and what I have passed by without realising and appreciating ; how I 've stopped in various cafes on the way and met interesting people in them and had fascinating conversations when all the time I should have been speaking to the person on the next table instead . ’ |
| 28 | But I might have been speaking to a corpse , she was so pale and still and silent . |
| 29 | She might have been speaking to him backwards in Swahili for all the attention he paid her explanation . |
| 30 | She could have been speaking of failing to spot an acquaintance in a crowd . |