Example sentences of "[pron] [vb mod] have been [v-ing] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The suddenness of the increased use of artillery in the third quarter of the fourteenth century is evidenced by the fact that when Gaston Fébus , vicomte of Béarn in the Pyrenees , had a network of fortifications constructed between 1365 and 1380 ( a period during which many castles were built in France ) he must have been building some of the last fortifications to take no account of artillery , which was very soon to compel important developments in the art of defence . |
| 32 | He must have been causing some problems . |
| 33 | Well he must have been doing that with the saucepan , he 's pulled all the carpet up . |
| 34 | It must have been discouraging that Adieu was not thought worthy to be given at Sadler 's Wells , and that the more handsome setting which Stevenson had designed for it was not used at that time . |
| 35 | ‘ It must have been getting light at about seven o'clock . |
| 36 | ' … which he thought he might have been wearing that afternoon and then changed his mind and said he had n't , ’ continued Harris , unperturbed by the interruption . |
| 37 | Where he might have been standing still had not the eagles lunged at him , as if moments before it fell they had sensed that some danger was there and had sought to protect him . |
| 38 | ‘ Nevertheless , it is strange that he should keep such a sum on current account , when he could have been earning two per cent interest . ’ |
| 39 | Spent ten years writing L'Idiot de la famille when he could have been writing Maoist tracts . |
| 40 | He was dead to the world , so deeply asleep that she wondered what on earth he could have been doing half the night . |
| 41 | ‘ Another smile like the one you were giving him and he would have been fastening that ribbon himself . |
| 42 | He would have been hearing Tubular Bells had the ball not struck glancingly . |
| 43 | The Review Panel would have had to try to persuade the court that complying with FRED 1 failed to give a true and fair view , and it would have been presenting this argument at the same time that companies generally were being compelled to comply with FRS 3 ( a not fundamentally revised version of FRED 1 ) in order to give a true and fair view . |
| 44 | Let's hope he or she cares about you enough to say , ‘ You know you should have called me earlier-you must have been holding this in for days ! ’ |