Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] [vb mod] have been [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Now several mornings a week when perhaps she should have been concerning herself with the house ( she delegated more and more to the housekeeper , who after all had run everything before she , Lily , had come ) , she would go and sit with Sadie , who was expecting another child at Christmas . |
| 3 | So she must have been wearing some funny shoes to get corns on |
| 4 | So you 'd have been running ? |
| 5 | So you could have been standing , you with your shield , at this point with Constable with you , either on one side of the bed or at the bottom of the bed or on the other side of the bed , where were you in fact standing ? |
| 6 | Perhaps we could have been celebrating the first golden anniversary of the 1,000 Reich boasted about by Hitler . |
| 7 | Perhaps they should have been using better cutlery , thought Robert , or calling Hasan ‘ sir ’ and making sure he had the best chair . |
| 8 | So they 'd have been picking people in their thirties then , now they 'd be in their sixties . |
| 9 | The word ‘ championship ’ , however , no matter how much he may have been thinking about it privately , I did not hear from him until much later in the year , when the scales began to tip in his favour . |
| 10 | And he came down he would have been working for he would have been at that time my great grandfather maybe or and he came down and he lived in lower Millfield after that and just as soon as he was out of his house , they just had the house demolished . |
| 11 | Perhaps he should have been expecting her question . |
| 12 | Thus he must have been singing falsetto in this role . |
| 13 | Subconsciously he must have been expecting something like this : his first reaction was not surprise but an intensification of the dull misery which had enveloped him for the last 24 hours . |
| 14 | The irony for England was that had he decided differently he would have been playing for them rather than against them , for his parents had brought him from Barbados at the age of twelve to live in Reading , and he had played for England schoolboys . |
| 15 | Looking back now they might have been playing out the rôle of characters from some nineteenth-century romantic novel . |
| 16 | Although the scribes no doubt made ‘ errors ’ , it should be possible to investigate variable texts in extenso to determine the extent to which variation in spelling ( or indeed in other linguistic dimensions ) is in fact orderly , and whether this variation can help us to work out what might have been happening in spoken English at the time . |
| 17 | Well I would have been rushing off . |
| 18 | Well you must have been going during the day while I was at work then . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | ‘ Then surely she would have been wearing a nightdress ? ’ |
| 22 | So whatever fibres were flying around they would have been carrying ’ . |
| 23 | Well it must have been hurting you to make you do that . |
| 24 | Well he must have been trying . |
| 25 | Well he must have been doing that with the saucepan , he 's pulled all the carpet up . |
| 26 | If food 's got anything to do with it then I must have been eating the wrong way for the last 40 years . |
| 27 | I know how you must have been feeling inside . ’ |
| 28 | If we had scored five or six more goals which the statistics prove was possible , then we would have been going to Sydney next year . |
| 29 | Indeed there may have been churning — but that is not necessarily the case . |
| 30 | There they would have been complaining about the weather , the European Commission 's new fishing controls and the imminence of bankruptcy . |