Example sentences of "[modal v] have been [v-ing] [art] [noun sg] " 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 | At this time of the year , if Napoleon had not returned , Sharpe should have been thinning the apple crop , stripping away basketloads of young fruit to give the remaining crop a better chance of ripening in the autumn , but instead he was riding a dusty road in Belgium and searching for an enemy . |
| 4 | Musician to the end , he died through insisting on conducting a new revival of Castor et Pollux when he should have been nursing an illness . |
| 5 | When we left the meeting , I should have been punching the air with joy . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Thus , when in 1010 the English should have been engaging the enemy , ferde seo fyrde ham — the army went home . |
| 8 | ‘ I should have been marrying a prince . ’ |
| 9 | The charge is that he allowed domestic inflation to get out of control and messed around with the exchange rate when he should have been applying the monetarist remedy . |
| 10 | ‘ And this is Ron , viola , but he really should have been playing the cornet , he spends more time on it . ’ |
| 11 | It must have been chasing a squirrel or something and fell into the hollow and could not get out again . ’ |
| 12 | Florian stopped his theatrically narrow-eyed scrutiny of Maria and grinned at Luke , who must have been telling the truth because he was all attention , no less than riveted . |
| 13 | ‘ 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 . |
| 14 | At that moment , Willie Aitchison , Lee Trevino 's faithful caddie , must have been thinking the reverse . |
| 15 | He must have been staggering a bit out there by the pool . |
| 16 | At this time , the earl , must have been nearing the end of his distinguished career . |
| 17 | Her mother must have been watching the quayside from her terrace , Caroline realised with a jolt . |
| 18 | Doubtless with his tongue in his cheek , Bedford replied : ‘ But Mr. Lampson , you must have been opening the book . ’ |
| 19 | First , D must have been committing a crime . |
| 20 | He had wondered how the KGB would react to the Reznichenko Memorandum ; now he saw they must have been analysing the pattern long before it had occurred to him . |
| 21 | ‘ And somewhere , ’ Husband said , ‘ Mrs Howard must have been keeping a file on Gustav Eismark . |
| 22 | He 'll have been gambling the money away and then stealing the food from her . ’ |
| 23 | Three , he might have been taking the piss , provoking the crowd . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Lou Duva , co-trainer of Holyfield , might have been cranking the hype handle too far when he said that this evening 's fight might be a once in a lifetime affair . |
| 26 | Two , he might have been reclaiming the flag for non-racists . |
| 27 | They might have been using the whole of the attendance allowance erm to pay for carers , outside of the care that we provided , erm or a member of the family might have given up work to look after another member of the family . |
| 28 | She might have been wearing a sign like those you see in car windows : GIVE MY CHILD A CHANCE — DO N'T PULL BACK . |
| 29 | ‘ If we had been at home Rachel might have been spending the day with us instead . ’ |
| 30 | He might have been giving an apple to a horse . |