Example sentences of "[pron] [vb mod] have been [v-ing] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I must have been feeling manic depressive when I had this done . |
| 2 | I must have been arranging those flowers , and setting the lighted candles round them , at the very moment my father was dying . |
| 3 | ‘ Then I catch up with what I should have been doing all day . |
| 4 | When I lived right on the job it used to drive my wife round the bend — I 'd be at home on a weekend , perhaps in the garden , and I 'd think about something in the greenhouse across the road so I 'd go over there and disappear for an hour whereas perhaps I should have been giving more time to my family . |
| 5 | ‘ For all you knew , I could have been sleeping naked ! ’ |
| 6 | ‘ If I 'd been fitter I would have been sitting next to him on that aeroplane , ’ said heartbroken Fiona , who had nicknamed her lover the ‘ Kiwi Crocodile Dundee . ’ |
| 7 | The only place I could think of was Stonehenge which must have been spanking new then and as up to date as a Hilton or an out-of-town Sainsburys . |
| 8 | Since Holyfield took over and made grandad-bashing respectable on the heavyweight scene , those young lions who ought to have been clawing each other for the right to depose and expose him have been harmlessly shadow boxing around each other . |
| 9 | Paradoxically , however , although over the years you may have been contributing many thousands of pounds to the Inland Revenue , in practice you may have had very little direct contact with the tax system . |
| 10 | The death of Matthew Makepeace , the man who should have been lecturing that afternoon , ‘ one of the most promising scholars of his generation ’ , the old Professor used to tell us , was ‘ an inestimable loss to the department and the university as a whole ’ . |
| 11 | He concluded that she must have been reading modern novels . ) |
| 12 | So she must have been wearing some funny shoes to get corns on |
| 13 | She must have been straining all day . |
| 14 | She should have been doing three hundred . |
| 15 | She should have been feeling relaxed , but too many thoughts still crowded in on her , and there were no solutions to any of them . |
| 16 | You 'd have been doing that . |
| 17 | You 'd have been smouldering next morning , would n't she Charlie ? |
| 18 | It 's not very nice when you 're driving the vehicle and er I know you 're all experienced drivers and then you get somebody sitting there alongside you starting to look at you do , and I I you could 've been driving all your life but you still feel a bit edgy and a bit tense . |
| 19 | Institute Council member Douglas Llambias said the fine ‘ was out of all proportion to a guilty verdict ’ , and added that if the fines were capped , ‘ we should have been publicising that for the last 12 months . |
| 20 | We should have been taking French or English , or something . |
| 21 | But for the alteration in taxation in the Budget and also the minor alterations in projected expenditure which preceded it , we should have been facing 1968/69 with the identical prospect of a further creation of additional purchasing power . |
| 22 | We are going through enormous changes in the education system at the moment and as Governors we have had to struggle terribly hard to learn how to govern schools as more power and more authority has been devolved to us , and we should have been spending this year erm working together on learning how to run a more successful school , and instead erm we 've had to waste a hell of a lot of time on really what was an absolute political nonsense and irrelevance , and I am glad we can turn aside from that . |
| 23 | Although there may have been surviving some notion of the tradition of ordered government from the ancient world , in actuality Rome had no strong , centralized government since classical times . |
| 24 | She told him her perfume came all the way from Hollywood , in America , where she herself would have been living these last nine years if only Frankie 's birth had not robbed her of the life of glamour and excitement she deserved . |
| 25 | These men were in touch with Edward Balliol , the heir of the Scottish king dispossessed by Edward I , and they may have been planning some move to recover their position in either England or Scotland . |
| 26 | they must have been putting two thousand in you know |
| 27 | Perhaps they should have been using better cutlery , thought Robert , or calling Hasan ‘ sir ’ and making sure he had the best chair . |
| 28 | The problem for the students to some extent , is being compounded by the withdrawal of housing benefit , which means that they 're paying the full cost of rents in the private sector , whereas before they might have been getting ten , twelve even , more pounds a week refunded to them through the housing benefit scheme . |
| 29 | If this reconstruction is sound , Oswiu 's encounter with Fín occurred at about the time that he may have been seeking Irish support against the forces of Penda . |
| 30 | He should have been doing this a year or two ago , in the hope that extra jobs would have been created before now . |