Example sentences of "[modal v] have be [v-ing] for [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She must have been looking for me because a few seconds later she spotted me and came over . |
| 2 | It must have been irritating for you . " |
| 3 | I thought she must have been waiting for someone … ’ |
| 4 | Grant got the impression that Larsen must have been waiting for his signal , like a sprinter crouched in his blocks waiting for the starter 's gun to launch him into motion . |
| 5 | He might have been waiting for someone . |
| 6 | Barbara Coleman had said Maurin was responsible for keeping her hidden , and therefore the men who attacked Edouard could have been acting for him . |
| 7 | It was completely anarchic , they could have been fighting for anything , cheaper teabags for all they cared , half of them . |
| 8 | He could have been crying for his mummy . |
| 9 | But no one else would have been looking for it . |
| 10 | ‘ I know Ron would have been shouting for him . |
| 11 | Home Office pathologist Dr Donald Wayte , of Bangor , told the court yesterday that it would probably have been impossible to get so much material into Mrs McMullen 's mouth if she had been conscious , as she would have been fighting for her life . |
| 12 | Apart from the health risk , it would have been disturbing for them to see the damage . |
| 13 | Apart from the health risk , it would have been disturbing for them to see the damage . |
| 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 | Then in his fifth year at the school , when he ought to have been aiming for his school certificate which was the next and essential passport for that golden educated future , he left abruptly to work as a haberdasher 's assistant in the local Co-operative store . |