Example sentences of "[vb mod] [vb infin] [be] [v-ing] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now several mornings a week when perhaps she should have been concerning herself with the house ( she delegated more and more to the housekeeper , who after all had run everything before she , Lily , had come ) , she would go and sit with Sadie , who was expecting another child at Christmas . |
| 2 | The alternator , which should have been recharging it during the flight , for some reason was n't . |
| 3 | The alternator , which should have been recharging it during the flight , for some reason was n't . |
| 4 | I must have been misguiding myself for a very long time Mr . |
| 5 | He must have been saving it for months . |
| 6 | Gloucester started as favourites to win this one … and in a game of penalties must have been kicking themselves for not doing better … |
| 7 | Severiano Ballesteros also had a 70 for a total of 213 but he must have been kicking himself for it included a seven at the 13th . |
| 8 | Someone must have been reading it during an attack of constipation . |
| 9 | Subconsciously he must have been expecting something like this : his first reaction was not surprise but an intensification of the dull misery which had enveloped him for the last 24 hours . |
| 10 | ‘ It must have been bothering you for a few days . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ Of course — but unfortunately overlooked , ’ he replied straight away , and as it came to her that he must have been teasing her with his earlier attitude , he was asking , ‘ Now , can I get you a glass of wine ? ’ |
| 12 | If the ship was locked on to us , it must have been following us from Vadinamia . |
| 13 | But if Mr Menzies had thought of this he must have been keeping it for another Sunday . |
| 14 | He might have been receiving her in the best parlour on a Sunday afternoon . |
| 15 | Gustav need n't have been telling the truth about the Allies — though it sounds as if he might have been telling it about his wife . |
| 16 | He might have been asking her about the traffic on the way in from the airport . |
| 17 | He might have been spooning it into his pocket , not eating it at all . |
| 18 | ‘ You mean I could have been discussing it with some of your clients , like the Contessa Mantero ? ’ |
| 19 | I mean , we could have been doing anything in there . ’ |
| 20 | She 'd have been wearing it on a day like this . ’ |
| 21 | well I 've given many , many different answers here , I could have been here all day , giving you just between point five and point six , and you 'd have been giving one as the answer every time . |
| 22 | When they went out to a restaurant together , he would always complain — very loudly so that the proprietor would know who he was and so there would be people around about whom he could fuss were pestering him for his autograph . |
| 23 | A SEEMS to me as though you may have been overfeeding them with a fertiliser containing quite a lot of nitrogen and perhaps over-watering . |
| 24 | Undertaken sensitively and carefully by an experienced operator in controlled circumstances , regression therapy should be a beneficial and restorative experience for the subject , enabling him to be rid of a serious problem that may have been troubling him for years and indeed possibly ruining his life . |
| 25 | I may have been approaching it from the wrong angle . |
| 26 | Dunwoody had in the past won on Norton 's Coin and would have been riding him in the Gold Cup had Desert Orchid been absent . |
| 27 | I thought — if it had been my parents who had been talking , they would have been doing it at the tops of their voices , for surely on the content alone that conversation had been a row . |
| 28 | Three of the medical staff who attended her independently assured her that had she not been so fit and supple they would have been measuring her for a wheelchair , or worse . |
| 29 | and of course and we would have been patting ourselves on the back saying we could go in under |
| 30 | Back when Abba were in their '50s , around 1975 say , they would have called this sort of record a hustle record and huge black men with names like Fatback would have been playing it for rich white nightclubs . |