Example sentences of "[vb infin] [be] [v-ing] [prep] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had thought they were at least speaking to one another privately , but if Jim had really sworn an affidavit he must have been listening on another telephone . |
| 2 | Mind , neither Noodle nor Blueboobs would have been sittin' in that room amongst troopies and other enemies , jus ' twiddlin' their thumbs , in the first place … |
| 3 | As he stood on the tee with the green five hundred yards away , Kyle must have been thinking of another birdie , possibly an eagle . |
| 4 | She had brushed aside the congratulations of her gynaecologist when he said , ‘ Most women would have been screaming for some kind of relief long before now . ’ |
| 5 | He 'd have been undertaking with this man . |
| 6 | What volcano of emotion must have been boiling inside that youngster under his teasing and laughing , under his occasionally expressionless face ? |
| 7 | Sir Patrick Mayhew must have been hoping for some winners and losers , as he considers how to kick-start his talks process . |
| 8 | It 's thought they may have been drinking in this pub on Wellingborough road earlier in the evening . |
| 9 | Saying that they were playing very deep , but Im sure Wallace would have been looking for those balls and giving the player in posession that option . |
| 10 | Athelstan studied him carefully , rather concerned , for by now Sir John would usually have been shouting for more claret or sack . |
| 11 | That 's the level at which you would have been walking along this alleyway in nineteen ninety and about fourteen sixty . |
| 12 | He could have been walking on another planet The flat , moonlight illuminated landscape , interrupted by large and small pools of bright water seemed unreal . |
| 13 | Additionally , the fact that this part of the movement was written out by Leopold suggests that Mozart may have been working on another part of the symphony while his father was copying the part that already existed . |
| 14 | Because Edith now Edith was going away for some unknown reason , I do n't know , she must have been going on another holiday anyhow . |
| 15 | She must have been waiting for some time . |
| 16 | Eighteen months ago they would n't have been asking for more money |
| 17 | So why the population should have been growing on this scale I think is er a question that we ca n't answer very easily . |
| 18 | Choose one of the four and try to work out what he or she must have been doing at each stage of the carnival . |
| 19 | It 's not , it 's a very good approximation most of the time , it 's an awful lot better than erm you know , wh what sort of current do you think 's flowing in that Joe ? |