Example sentences of "have be [v-ing] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It was bad luck on Darryll Holland , who probably would have been riding here but for picking up a four-day suspension . |
| 2 | ‘ Well , it must have been raining miserably when they went through here . ’ |
| 3 | First , they have argued that the gradual increase in peasant investment and in levels of consumption both of food and consumer goods in the countryside suggests that , abjectly poor though many were , on average peasant living standards may have been rising rather than falling in the decades immediately prior to the revolution of 1905 . |
| 4 | ‘ Someone could have been hiding here when we came into the church earlier today . |
| 5 | I can not know how she feels about that experience , but I think it must have been reassuring rather than distressing . |
| 6 | In some counties , the land tax was relatively lightly assessed ; in Cumberland and Westmorland , for example , landowners might have been paying less than 5 per cent of the true value of their rents . |
| 7 | My guardian angel must have been working overtime as the hut never actually caught fire , and as far as I am aware neither of our overseers suspected that we were harbouring such a forbidden utensil in the Met Waafs ' hut . |
| 8 | It could hardly be him they wanted , or they would have been pounding upstairs and hammering on his door by now . |
| 9 | He would have been fighting blindly if he started proceedings without seeing the maintenance and servicing records of the fork-lift truck to see whether it had gone wrong before and what went wrong on this occasion . |
| 10 | Yet if they were referring to a legitimate title , why should not Pilate have been doing so as well ? |