Example sentences of "[modal v] have been going [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We must have been going round like zombies . |
| 2 | The argument must have been going on for some time , although Lucien had been hardly aware of it . |
| 3 | It is a sort of cultural conflict which must have been going on in the husband 's mind . |
| 4 | This confused Benny at first , until she realized that they must have been going deeper into the complex , while Froebe would have assumed she was making for the outside . |
| 5 | Now she was not orientated at all and for all she knew she could have been going round in circles . |
| 6 | ‘ I wo n't deny that , Mrs Wilson , but there was a period , just before she disappeared … well , I say just before she disappeared but it may have been going on for years , I do n't know … there was a period when she was very unhappy , very unhappy indeed . ’ |
| 7 | He believes that the bourgeois epoch of history is in its terminal crisis , but concedes that this crisis may have been going on since 1848 , which stretches not only ‘ bourgeois ’ but ‘ crisis ’ to breakingpoint . |
| 8 | Sometimes a murder enquiry will have been going on for some days before it emerges that there is a sexual element involved . |
| 9 | This , like the argument about human progress , suggests that the universe can have been going only for a finite time . |