Example sentences of "[pers pn] [modal v] have been [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | I must have been walking for nearly an hour , he thought . |
| 2 | ‘ The irony is that I did n't realise till Christmas , when I knew I loved you , that it was someone like you I should have been looking for all these years since . ’ |
| 3 | I should have been prepared for the lack of change on this front . |
| 4 | Reading this , I could have been forgiven for conjuring up a picture of the Queen Mother settling down comfortably by a television set at Sandringham , perhaps a daughter at her side , a corgi at feet and refreshment to hand , basking in the glow of my birthday tribute to her , and making a mental note to instruct the Private secretary in the morning to send a line of thanks to those concerned . |
| 5 | ‘ He sounds just the sort of keen , experienced youngster I would have been looking for . |
| 6 | said if I would have sold that car next to nothing I would have been done for it |
| 7 | He said : ‘ I assumed I would have been picked for the final . |
| 8 | Any one of them might have been used for an unlawful occasion , but , if so , the most diligent inquiries failed to bring it to light . |
| 9 | She may have been scarred for life , ’ she said . |
| 10 | She may have been scarred for life , ’ she said . |
| 11 | ‘ It leaves me wondering why you should have been chosen for this very tame assignment . |
| 12 | She must have been looking for me because a few seconds later she spotted me and came over . |
| 13 | She must have been going for the six o'clock train , and she was probably in a dickens of a rush when … ’ |
| 14 | she was nearly retiring by the , no still the girls go to her at the school so she must have been going for , two or three years after we came up here , but I would be in the choir just , maybe two or three years . |
| 15 | I thought she must have been waiting for someone … ’ |
| 16 | She must have been waiting for some time . |
| 17 | In relation to the concept of a new settlement the Department very firmly has an open mind at a time , we 've heard many statements drawing on the various P P G s , and from some of them you might have been excused for thinking that the Department had indeed turned it turned its back on the idea of a n new settlements , knowing that sort of situation we felt it appropriate before the start of this examination to sound out the residents of two Marscham Street |
| 18 | You might have been driving for years by going over the top of the wheel as a lot of lorry drivers do . |
| 19 | It was such a shock to feel his animosity directed so unwaveringly towards her ; even though , after last night , she could have been prepared for something , she could only gape down at him . |
| 20 | She could have been kidnapped for all I know . |
| 21 | If her eyes had not been so bright and alert , she could have been mistaken for a corpse . |
| 22 | Her eyes were nearer black than brown and she wore woollen knee stockings ; from a distance she could have been mistaken for a child , of either sex . |
| 23 | It altered her appearance considerably , making her look older and quite severe , and in her new black working dress she could have been taken for a widow . |
| 24 | Your , your arithmetic has really improved you know , you can do these things in your head now whereas not all that long ago you 'd have been reaching for the calculator thinking , oh I ca n't do that . |
| 25 | Dropped in , blindfolded , you could have been forgiven for thinking you were in Surrey were it not for the unmistakable twang of the Ulster accent . |
| 26 | Listening to the debate and the old-fashioned ideas of male supremacy it unearthed , you could have been forgiven for thinking that we were still in the 16th Century . |
| 27 | You could have been forgiven for imagining , that Peter Nicholson had undergone surgery to replace his vocal chords with a megaphone . |
| 28 | The only difference is that I suppose er at we have er which is development in North Stockton , we have er erm permission for four hundred erm executive dwellings which is the sort of er market which you could have been looking for at in the past . |
| 29 | Not long ago you could have been prosecuted for owning gold . |
| 30 | You could have been making for any one of them in a boat . |