Example sentences of "[pron] [vb mod] have be [v-ing] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | I must have been walking for nearly an hour , he thought . |
| 2 | ‘ The irony is that I did n't realise till Christmas , when I knew I loved you , that it was someone like you I should have been looking for all these years since . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ He sounds just the sort of keen , experienced youngster I would have been looking for . |
| 4 | And the car was such a mess nobody would have been looking for a sawn brake cable . ’ |
| 5 | She must have been looking for me because a few seconds later she spotted me and came over . |
| 6 | She must have been going for the six o'clock train , and she was probably in a dickens of a rush when … ’ |
| 7 | she was nearly retiring by the , no still the girls go to her at the school so she must have been going for , two or three years after we came up here , but I would be in the choir just , maybe two or three years . |
| 8 | I thought she must have been waiting for someone … ’ |
| 9 | She must have been waiting for some time . |
| 10 | You might have been driving for years by going over the top of the wheel as a lot of lorry drivers do . |
| 11 | Your , your arithmetic has really improved you know , you can do these things in your head now whereas not all that long ago you 'd have been reaching for the calculator thinking , oh I ca n't do that . |
| 12 | The only difference is that I suppose er at we have er which is development in North Stockton , we have er erm permission for four hundred erm executive dwellings which is the sort of er market which you could have been looking for at in the past . |
| 13 | You could have been making for any one of them in a boat . |
| 14 | You have got to train that person which you could have been doing for years and |
| 15 | Home Office pathologist Dr Donald Wayte , of Bangor , told the court yesterday that it would probably have been impossible to get so much material into Mrs McMullen 's mouth if she had been conscious , as she would have been fighting for her life . |
| 16 | And what 's impressive is they 're doing research that we should have been doing for years ! |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Master Thomas said they must have been looking for people , not things , and thought you should be warned , so … ’ |
| 19 | They must have been singing for , though Sharpe could hear nothing , he could see their mouths opening and closing in unison . |
| 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 | ‘ What do you think they could have been looking for — the people who ransacked her cottage ? ’ |
| 22 | It was completely anarchic , they could have been fighting for anything , cheaper teabags for all they cared , half of them . |
| 23 | At this time of the evening they 'd have been drinking for an hour . |
| 24 | Then in his fifth year at the school , when he ought to have been aiming for his school certificate which was the next and essential passport for that golden educated future , he left abruptly to work as a haberdasher 's assistant in the local Co-operative store . |
| 25 | Police think whoever did it may have been searching for a non existant stache of money . |
| 26 | Edward Nundy , 55 , of Southend , Essex , was allegedly seen at his boat when he should have been working for Car Buyer magazine . |
| 27 | He must have been gouging for half an hour when an idea seemed to strike him . |
| 28 | He must have been looking for the keys . |
| 29 | He must have been looking for bathroom . |
| 30 | ‘ He must have been driving for hours . ’ |