Example sentences of "[vb infin] been [v-ing] [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | He could have been composing rubbish for all I was competent to judge , yet that possibility did not enter my head . |
| 2 | ‘ They must have been meeting places for The Hell Fire Club he discovered . ’ |
| 3 | Britain would now be in the fortunate position of having had , in 1991 , nothing worse than a shallow and short-lived recession , from which a smart recovery would already have been taking place for several quarters , with no balance of payments constraint and little rise in unemployment . |
| 4 | ‘ Oh , they must have been selling flowers for ages , Luke . |
| 5 | While Dostoevsky was interested in the noble Moor and the jealousy question , he will also have been pondering ghost-reasons for his own villain . |
| 6 | Some readers will have been growing roses for years , others may be starting for the first time from scratch , with no preconceived ideas , pattern or convention to adhere to , and a great many more will be at every stage in between . |
| 7 | This entailed an eighty-mile drive in all , at a time when I should have been making sandwiches for the post-funeral bun-fight . |