Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb mod] [verb] [be] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I must have been feeling manic depressive when I had this done . |
| 2 | I must have been arranging those flowers , and setting the lighted candles round them , at the very moment my father was dying . |
| 3 | Is there some development that I should have been made aware of ? ’ |
| 4 | I should have been discharged earlier but I had developed a cold and they insisted I stay until it had completely cleared up . |
| 5 | ‘ Then I catch up with what I should have been doing all day . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Because it suddenly occurs to me that I might have been left alone to get on with this assignment if my divisional head had n't beamed in on my activities and seen something she did n't like in my relationship with Rainbow . |
| 8 | If I was to spend race day reporting as a spectator , then the least I could do was arrive early and attempt the course myself . |
| 9 | I was isn a relationship which I could feel was going wrong — in the same way that all my previous relationships had gone wrong . |
| 10 | ‘ For all you knew , I could have been sleeping naked ! ’ |
| 11 | I knew the ones she meant ; she meant the square transparent boiled sweets which when she was a child would have been weighed out in pennyworths from a tall glass jar , but although I searched in grocers ’ shops and sweet shops high and low , all I could find were wrapped oval-shaped acid drops . |
| 12 | Erm right okay well the first thing I 'd do is handle that one . |
| 13 | How can we criticize it , how well does it actually fit into what happened in the real world , they just want little bits of information but not too much depth on anything but always remember empirical evidence examples are very important what I would do is using those examples or la last year 's exam paper , practise , practise the short answers because you ca n't write very much detail in it so it 's a good idea to have some idea about how much you can write , then your expectations will be changed okay . |
| 14 | Tell you what I would do is mix some slightly different colour green |
| 15 | ‘ If I 'd been fitter I would have been sitting next to him on that aeroplane , ’ said heartbroken Fiona , who had nicknamed her lover the ‘ Kiwi Crocodile Dundee . ’ |
| 16 | I am sorry I ca n't be any more help with that at this stage what I can do is to take that question away and circulate the information after I 've done some sums . |
| 17 | The best thing I can do is forget all about him , ’ she told a close friend . |
| 18 | And the least I can do is make sure he has some peace and quiet while he can , poor little scrap , she thought . |
| 19 | Right , well , all I can do is take one lot , one coupon . |
| 20 | All I can say is give these people a film score to settle . |
| 21 | The medical treatments for some of the illnesses you may experience are improving all the time . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | She may have been killed any time in the last two days . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ What you ought to do is teach these girls some manners , ’ the American muttered crossly . |
| 25 | The first thing you must do is to assign any system-wide logical names required by the process , eg. pseudo-devices used for the process or storage directories , and all the logicals for all the storage directories known to the process . |
| 26 | But you must you must have been asked dozens of times to go back into the pop concert field ? |
| 27 | You must have been spoilt rotten Dennis Lotus , er singing with a band like Ted Heath . |
| 28 | You must have been sold old stock , Robert — a driver for the BJ-10E has been available for at least eight months . |
| 29 | He concluded that she must have been reading modern novels . ) |
| 30 | So she must have been wearing some funny shoes to get corns on |