Example sentences of "[modal v] have be [v-ing] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The woman had not looked like a prostitute , besides which had that been the case Fedorov 's driver should have been taking a walk along the quay , or just sitting gazing tactfully ahead . |
| 2 | The other time I came near to being shot was in May , when nobody should have been firing a rifle . |
| 3 | 1.9 In every case the onus lies on the defendant to prove that the plaintiff should have been wearing a seat belt and that his injuries would have been avoided or less severe if he had been . |
| 4 | ‘ I should have been marrying a prince . ’ |
| 5 | It must have been chasing a squirrel or something and fell into the hollow and could not get out again . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ 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 . |
| 7 | He must have been staggering a bit out there by the pool . |
| 8 | First , D must have been committing a crime . |
| 9 | ‘ And somewhere , ’ Husband said , ‘ Mrs Howard must have been keeping a file on Gustav Eismark . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | She might have been wearing a sign like those you see in car windows : GIVE MY CHILD A CHANCE — DO N'T PULL BACK . |
| 12 | He might have been planning a Cooks ' Tour . |
| 13 | 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 … |
| 14 | He could have been leading a parade , twirling the baton . |
| 15 | He could have been giving a traffic broadcast . |
| 16 | Much more of that and we 'd have been making a block transfer to the Betty Ford clinic . |
| 17 | I 'd have been making a living for myself as well ! ’ |
| 18 | He may have been looking a bit weary , but he was doing a splendid linking job and Whitton found it hard fill the gap . |
| 19 | At first , this suggestion seemed to apply to all accounts — which certainly would have been taking a sledgehammer to crack a nut — but it has now been narrowed down to those of ‘ public interest ’ companies , with a fairly generous definition of which companies are of public interest . |
| 20 | However , Nigel had not wished to leave his family and friends for the loneliness of the big city , even though he would have been earning a lot more money . |
| 21 | Brian had given Scarlet the impression that , if it had not been for his first wife and her child , and his second wife and her child , he would have been living a life of carefree splendour in a house adjacent to the park . |
| 22 | By sending permanent representatives to the courts of Europe the Ottomans would have been accepting a kind of regular and established contact with the west which denied their most deeply held assumptions , which implied an at least partial renunciation of the inherent superiority to the Christian world which they claimed , and which for a surprisingly long time , even after the balance of military strength had turned decisively against them , seemed to almost all of them unnecessary and to promise no real advantage . |
| 23 | ‘ Then surely she would have been wearing a nightdress ? ’ |
| 24 | You would have been talking a lot of deep stuff about Baptism and Matrimony . ’ |
| 25 | Ricky had to steel himself not to take her in his arms , but he would have been putting a match to a petrol-soaked bonfire , and he did n't want to hate himself any more than he did already . |