Example sentences of "[pron] [vb mod] have been [v-ing] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I should have been marrying a prince . ’ |
| 2 | I 'd have been making a living for myself as well ! ’ |
| 3 | The other time I came near to being shot was in May , when nobody should have been firing a rifle . |
| 4 | Wilkinson , who might have been sporting a more cheerful expression this morning but for a number of glaring misses by Eric Cantona , said : ‘ Whipping the people responsible is not the answer . |
| 5 | She might have been wearing a sign like those you see in car windows : GIVE MY CHILD A CHANCE — DO N'T PULL BACK . |
| 6 | I thought you 'd have been buying an oil well or something like that . |
| 7 | There are a couple of tracks from ‘ The Extremist ’ where it sounds like you could have been using a Les Paul , and that could have been the influence of the new stop tailpiece … |
| 8 | ‘ Then surely she would have been wearing a nightdress ? ’ |
| 9 | You would have been talking a lot of deep stuff about Baptism and Matrimony . ’ |
| 10 | If you are self-employed you will have been paving a flat-rate Class 2 contribution every week and possibly the earnings-related Class 4 contributions as well . |
| 11 | Much more of that and we 'd have been making a block transfer to the Betty Ford clinic . |
| 12 | They may have intended to present the information as a factual account , or they may have been investigating a particular area with a view to using the material obtained as a background for a piece of more imaginative writing . |
| 13 | the United fans enjoyed this game … they should have been celebrating a bigger win too … |
| 14 | In the morning , I slept through the pigeons , but around 8.30 a loud banging started down in the nave like they might have been building a scaffold or something . |
| 15 | They would have been paying an interest rate of 11.75 p.c. — which increased to 15 p.c. in January 1980 — compared with the current rate of about 10.95 p.c . |
| 16 | He may have been conducting a formal press conference in very informal dress at a most abnormal time . |
| 17 | But he may have been wearing a dark ski cap of the Deerhunter style . |
| 18 | But he may have been wearing a dark ski cap of the Deerhunter style . |
| 19 | He may have been wearing a green bomber jacket . |
| 20 | He may have been looking a bit weary , but he was doing a splendid linking job and Whitton found it hard fill the gap . |
| 21 | Musician to the end , he died through insisting on conducting a new revival of Castor et Pollux when he should have been nursing an illness . |
| 22 | ‘ Something is wrong , Fabia ? ’ he asked urgently , leaving his stance over by the French window where he must have been taking a look outside , to come over to her . |
| 23 | He must have been staggering a bit out there by the pool . |
| 24 | It must have been chasing a squirrel or something and fell into the hollow and could not get out again . ’ |
| 25 | But he might have been speaking a foreign language . |
| 26 | He might have been planning a Cooks ' Tour . |
| 27 | He might have been giving an apple to a horse . |
| 28 | ‘ The evidence extends only as far as the lower scapula , does it not ’ He could have been wearing an off-the-shoulder toga . ’ |
| 29 | While agreeing broadly with the England manager 's summing-up of the present Brazilian team , the thought did occur that in another footballing era he could have been describing an Italian side — brilliant in breakaways but giving nothing away at the back . |
| 30 | He could have been giving a traffic broadcast . |