Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] been [v-ing] [prep] this " in BNC.
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1 | So why the population should have been growing on this scale I think is er a question that we ca n't answer very easily . |
2 | There was no law , strictly speaking , against experimenting , although considering the stage which Alexei 's trials had reached , it was clear that he must have been working on this for some time . |
3 | He 'd have been undertaking with this man . |
4 | It 's thought they may have been drinking in this pub on Wellingborough road earlier in the evening . |
5 | That 's the level at which you would have been walking along this alleyway in nineteen ninety and about fourteen sixty . |