Example sentences of "[pers pn] [modal v] [verb] been [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I must have been arranging those flowers , and setting the lighted candles round them , at the very moment my father was dying . |
| 2 | ‘ Then I catch up with what I should have been doing all day . |
| 3 | When I lived right on the job it used to drive my wife round the bend — I 'd be at home on a weekend , perhaps in the garden , and I 'd think about something in the greenhouse across the road so I 'd go over there and disappear for an hour whereas perhaps I should have been giving more time to my family . |
| 4 | Paradoxically , however , although over the years you may have been contributing many thousands of pounds to the Inland Revenue , in practice you may have had very little direct contact with the tax system . |
| 5 | She may have been killed any time in the last two days . ’ |
| 6 | So she must have been wearing some funny shoes to get corns on |
| 7 | She must have been straining all day . |
| 8 | Straightforward conversation wife to wife , well again she must have been told that by her husband to even mention it . |
| 9 | You 'd have been doing that . |
| 10 | It 's not very nice when you 're driving the vehicle and er I know you 're all experienced drivers and then you get somebody sitting there alongside you starting to look at you do , and I I you could 've been driving all your life but you still feel a bit edgy and a bit tense . |
| 11 | You may have already decided what sort of walking boots to buy , but the shop assistant will , with barely disguised contempt , correct you , telling you how foolish you would have been to buy such footwear , how lucky it was you came here first , and convincing you that for only an extra £65 you can have the boot you really need . |
| 12 | But erm I mean th th the debate yesterday was , was as , as budget issues always are I mean when you 're talking about budget no matter , even in boom years you 're always still talking oh we have n't got enough money erm but it was positive in the sense that it was A we 're coming off the back of some good performance , and that 's important to remember , and all I 'm saying is there 's no reason why we should n't be able to maintain our performance , even if we ca n't improve it in the next two or three months erm from , to where we actually think we should have been given that the systems come in last year . |
| 13 | Institute Council member Douglas Llambias said the fine ‘ was out of all proportion to a guilty verdict ’ , and added that if the fines were capped , ‘ we should have been publicising that for the last 12 months . |
| 14 | We are going through enormous changes in the education system at the moment and as Governors we have had to struggle terribly hard to learn how to govern schools as more power and more authority has been devolved to us , and we should have been spending this year erm working together on learning how to run a more successful school , and instead erm we 've had to waste a hell of a lot of time on really what was an absolute political nonsense and irrelevance , and I am glad we can turn aside from that . |
| 15 | ( If they 'd existed in George Orwell 's day , when they were needed at least as much as now , we 'd have been spared all his sentimental fallacies about the perfect symmetry of family life . ) |
| 16 | We would have been spared this ! ’ |
| 17 | These men were in touch with Edward Balliol , the heir of the Scottish king dispossessed by Edward I , and they may have been planning some move to recover their position in either England or Scotland . |
| 18 | It was thought they must have been conferred all at once in an act of divine creation . |
| 19 | He teaches you how to write wonderful , metaphysical narratives , but they could have been written any time this century . |
| 20 | You could say it should have been allowed many more to establish itself , but it was not a notable success . |
| 21 | He should have been doing this a year or two ago , in the hope that extra jobs would have been created before now . |
| 22 | The suddenness of the increased use of artillery in the third quarter of the fourteenth century is evidenced by the fact that when Gaston Fébus , vicomte of Béarn in the Pyrenees , had a network of fortifications constructed between 1365 and 1380 ( a period during which many castles were built in France ) he must have been building some of the last fortifications to take no account of artillery , which was very soon to compel important developments in the art of defence . |
| 23 | He must have been causing some problems . |
| 24 | Well he must have been doing that with the saucepan , he 's pulled all the carpet up . |
| 25 | It must have been discouraging that Adieu was not thought worthy to be given at Sadler 's Wells , and that the more handsome setting which Stevenson had designed for it was not used at that time . |
| 26 | It was so fresh that it must have been baked that morning at Ksabi . |
| 27 | It might have been brewed this year , but I doubted it . |
| 28 | In these circumstances it might have been expected that town planning would be guaranteed a fair wind for many years while the consensus survived . |
| 29 | Similarly , it might have been expected that " space station " would score even higher than 87% . |
| 30 | ' … which he thought he might have been wearing that afternoon and then changed his mind and said he had n't , ’ continued Harris , unperturbed by the interruption . |