Example sentences of "[modal v] [vb infin] [be] [v-ing] [pron] for " in BNC.
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1 | I must have been misguiding myself for a very long time Mr . |
2 | He must have been saving it for months . |
3 | Gloucester started as favourites to win this one … and in a game of penalties must have been kicking themselves for not doing better … |
4 | Severiano Ballesteros also had a 70 for a total of 213 but he must have been kicking himself for it included a seven at the 13th . |
5 | ‘ It must have been bothering you for a few days . ’ |
6 | But if Mr Menzies had thought of this he must have been keeping it for another Sunday . |
7 | When they went out to a restaurant together , he would always complain — very loudly so that the proprietor would know who he was and so there would be people around about whom he could fuss were pestering him for his autograph . |
8 | Undertaken sensitively and carefully by an experienced operator in controlled circumstances , regression therapy should be a beneficial and restorative experience for the subject , enabling him to be rid of a serious problem that may have been troubling him for years and indeed possibly ruining his life . |
9 | Three of the medical staff who attended her independently assured her that had she not been so fit and supple they would have been measuring her for a wheelchair , or worse . |
10 | Back when Abba were in their '50s , around 1975 say , they would have called this sort of record a hustle record and huge black men with names like Fatback would have been playing it for rich white nightclubs . |