Example sentences of "[vb mod] have been reading " in BNC.
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| 1 | At half past three Kaptan and I should have been reading from one of the textbooks but , in fact , I was lying in the Colonel 's hammock while Kaptan , with his inexhaustible energy , was trying to catch frogs . |
| 2 | He concluded that she must have been reading modern novels . ) |
| 3 | Billy must have been reading his thoughts . |
| 4 | Someone must have been reading it during an attack of constipation . |
| 5 | But , fully clothed , he must have been reading in the sitting-room — or maybe he had just come in — when he too had heard the sound of a car crash . |
| 6 | She might have been reading from a tombstone . |
| 7 | He might have been reading her mind . |
| 8 | It was June ; it was Bexhill-on-Sea ; he may have been reading the county scores . |
| 9 | Latterly , they would have been reading Virgin books , watching Virgin videos and Virgin films . |
| 10 | And these were the very works , The Golden Bough , Welker Psychologie which Freud 's contemporaries would have been reading in English and German . |