Example sentences of "[pron] [vb mod] have been [v-ing] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I must have been waiting too . |
| 2 | I must have been sitting here on the edge of his bed , first singing and stroking , then just stroking , for half an hour or so . |
| 3 | ‘ Someone could have been hiding here when we came into the church earlier today . |
| 4 | Otherwise I 'd have been driving tonight |
| 5 | The time and effort demanded of them may put a strain on their relationship with a partner , who may have been looking forward to the years when they could be alone again as a couple . |
| 6 | ‘ You must have been living somewhere . ’ |
| 7 | At that moment Lesley-Jane saw your face — she told me you ‘ looked over your shoulder at her ’ but I did n't at the time realise that meant you must have been facing away from the stage . |
| 8 | I know how you must have been feeling inside . ’ |
| 9 | She must have been staying there at the weekend ! |
| 10 | She must have been sitting there reviewing the happenings of this last year for an age . |
| 11 | She must have been driving more erratically than she thought for she found herself half skewed across the road . |
| 12 | With a mental sigh that dimmed her meanings , she turned her attention to what she should have been doing all along . |
| 13 | Ten minutes before you might have been having quite a close conversation . ’ |
| 14 | If she had accepted him , she could have been looking forward to a child of her own now . |
| 15 | No but I mean I I I was planning on having a break in the middle but y most of you voted and you wanted a break at the start but perhaps it would 've , but then you you 'd have been going straight on from s w phonetics |
| 16 | A few weeks ago she would have been looking forward to the show , but it had all fallen flat and she had to scold herself severely before she could whip up any enthusiasm at all . |
| 17 | Obviously no expense was being spared to make the night a success , and in different circumstances she would have been looking forward to it , but now , as silence settled over the car , she could feel herself growing tense . |
| 18 | Even though in effect you 're using more of your income proportionately than you would have been doing before . |
| 19 | We would have been acting wrongly had we not given her permission to visit her mother . ’ |
| 20 | This confused Benny at first , until she realized that they must have been going deeper into the complex , while Froebe would have assumed she was making for the outside . |
| 21 | Unfortunately the bastards are 13 points minus 2 games clear , so they must have been playing well . |
| 22 | Just at the time when they should have been giving most to each other , he had turned away from her , and in its way that had been almost as painful as the loss of her mother . |
| 23 | It 's him should 've been coming home tonight . |
| 24 | Your reviewer was rather presumptuous in assuming they might have been living together with ‘ kids from previous marriages ’ . |
| 25 | It could hardly be him they wanted , or they would have been pounding upstairs and hammering on his door by now . |
| 26 | The magazine had been consuming too much of his time even though , ideally , he ought to have been devoting more to it . |
| 27 | And that , too , amazed her , that he should have been thinking so clearly , calculating how long it would take . |
| 28 | It was n't my blood , so he must have been bleeding as well |
| 29 | And neighbour Violet Miller said : ‘ He must have been doing about 90 miles an hour . |
| 30 | ‘ Well , it must have been raining miserably when they went through here . ’ |