Example sentences of "have been [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | A TRIAL was halted yesterday after complaints that magistrates had fallen asleep when they should have been listening to evidence . |
| 3 | He might have been listening to Moses when he came down from the mountain . |
| 4 | You must have been listening to the B.B.C. or something . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ It 's not a pleasant thought that he could have been listening to , and taping , our conversations . ’ |
| 6 | And it gets in your hair and it gets in your clothes , she must have been listening to the television . |
| 7 | He referred to the Man City game which he must have been listening to on Manc Radio . |
| 8 | They must have been riding for a long time , but there was no sign of a large town , only a solitary light shining ahead . |
| 9 | I think it would have been the Zetland , and — who knows — Mrs Field may have been riding with them that day . |
| 10 | Brian Inglis , a writer on the paranormal , said the spoof could have been damaging for those who had had ghostly experiences . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . ’ |
| 14 | I may have been speaking to Francis but I 'm not certain of that . |
| 15 | 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 . ’ |
| 16 | But I might have been speaking to a corpse , she was so pale and still and silent . |
| 17 | She might have been speaking to him backwards in Swahili for all the attention he paid her explanation . |
| 18 | She could have been speaking of failing to spot an acquaintance in a crowd . |
| 19 | Wrapped up in his agreeably muddled versions of events , he might have been speaking from Mars : and with this last screen show , this cinematic oddity , the scandal sank away . |
| 20 | The punch is executed with his left hand , which will have been resting in ‘ hammer ’ at the side of his hip . |
| 21 | In 1822 Elizabeth 's son Robert was baptised at the Mile End Old Town Zion Chapel on Union Street , built by devotees of Lady Huntingdon 's Connexion ; the young boy , then 13 , may well have been staying with his uncle Samuel at the time , the latter having married three years previously . |
| 22 | I suppose in the old days , if we 'd been like you , she 'd have been living with us as a matter of course . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ The person who put this together must have been living in a box for the last 10 years . ’ |
| 24 | I suppose he must have been choosing between them . |
| 25 | In 1987 perhaps the Prime Minister 's pre-election visit to Moscow and her eve-of-election trip to the Venice summit of Western leaders were favourable to her re-election , but ‘ Harold Wilson always asserted that a bad set of trade figures a few days before polling cost him an election , while the effect of being centre-stage during the Iran hostages affair may have been devastating to Jimmy Carter 's fortunes ’ . |
| 26 | There they would have been complaining about the weather , the European Commission 's new fishing controls and the imminence of bankruptcy . |
| 27 | Mind , neither Noodle nor Blueboobs would have been sittin' in that room amongst troopies and other enemies , jus ' twiddlin' their thumbs , in the first place … |
| 28 | Whitaker and Milton would have been trying for a unique hat-trick in this , the most important of all indoor championships , after winning in Dortmund in 1990 and Gothenburg last year . |
| 29 | Ward must have been thinking along the same lines , for as the road flattened out and the mist began to glimmer with a strange brightness , he said something about the Promised Land . |
| 30 | He should n't have been thinking about things like that at his age ! ’ |