Example sentences of "[pron] [vb mod] have [be] [adv] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So , anyway , I must have been downstairs doing something and I do n't ne sh sh I did n't know what time this interview feller was coming only , that I was downstairs and I heard Tracey say , oh what 's his name then Mike ? |
| 2 | I think I must have been gradually going off into a faint when I suddenly thought of mother reading the telegram saying that I had been killed in action . |
| 3 | I was still lackadaisical about my training , still playing dominoes in Mick 's cafe when I should have been out running repetition 300 metres on the West London track . |
| 4 | ‘ I would probably still be running anyway , but the Veteran scene has kept me motivated when I might have been just drifting around with my running . |
| 5 | From the surviving documentation , annotations on meeting papers , careful notes made of verbal exchanges and copies of correspondence it is possible to reconstruct the broad sequence of events and the serial proposals and counter-proposals which marked a period of intensive and difficult negotiation with neither side being prepared to risk an open breach in relationships which would have been publicly damaging . |
| 6 | ‘ Where 's Beuno ? ’ asked Betty casually , and Lydia realised that she must have been silently asking that all the way from the farmhouse . |
| 7 | When she should have been indignantly pulling away somehow she was melting into his arms , her lips parting beneath the increasing ardour of his . |
| 8 | No , no , she 'll she 'll erm she 'll query it , but just as well she noticed otherwise she 'd have been merrily paying it and Norm Norma does n't |
| 9 | He declared : ‘ You 'd have been safer belaying to a daffodil stalk ! ’ . |
| 10 | Remember that you will have been out enjoying yourself and you will still have made that lovely garter stitch sweater as well . |
| 11 | There could have been further scoring but for the woodwork which firstly denied Joe Miller after he had beaten Dariusz Wdowczyk and John Collins . |
| 12 | There could have been further scoring but for the woodwork which firstly denied Joe Miller after he had beaten Dariusz Wdowczyk and John Collins . |
| 13 | I tell you , if a helicopter had come down at that customs post , there would have been no stopping me . |
| 14 | Or that London bobbies were too often to be found whispering sweet nothings to kitchen maids , and tucking into pastries in servants ' quarters on foggy nights , when they should have been out walking the beat . |
| 15 | Smugglers , escaped convicts , drenched fishermen , or they might have been just watching the storm , voyeuristically curious to see a boat break up in choppy water . |
| 16 | It gave him everything and he may have been genuinely intending good . |
| 17 | ‘ Look at that , ’ he said , and crouched and peered , drawing her in , ‘ a clock , how strange , ’ strange because it was an antique clock with inlaid wood and round brass knobs for legs , it should have been softly ticking away on someone wealthy 's mantelpiece , a china shepherdess on either side , a marble fireplace below , and yet here it was , lying under a bush , and tilted at a curious angle as if it was drunk , and not ticking at all . |
| 18 | It must have been terribly upsetting for you , ’ says Jeremy 's mouth , while his eyes say Go on , admit it , did n't you enjoy it , some of it ? |
| 19 | It must have been hard bringing up three children on your own whilst leading such an insecure existence , opening up and closing down galleries ? |
| 20 | Dot guessed he might have been only pretending . |
| 21 | I would n't have thought even he could have been so calculating . ’ |