Example sentences of "[vb mod] have [be] [v-ing] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 2 | At half past three Kaptan and I should have been reading from one of the textbooks but , in fact , I was lying in the Colonel 's hammock while Kaptan , with his inexhaustible energy , was trying to catch frogs . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Sir Patrick Mayhew must have been hoping for some winners and losers , as he considers how to kick-start his talks process . |
| 5 | He must have been gouging for half an hour when an idea seemed to strike him . |
| 6 | As he stood on the tee with the green five hundred yards away , Kyle must have been thinking of another birdie , possibly an eagle . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | What volcano of emotion must have been boiling inside that youngster under his teasing and laughing , under his occasionally expressionless face ? |
| 9 | She must have been waiting for some time . |
| 10 | I think he must have been putting on all that business with his ankle , just to gain sympathy . ’ |
| 11 | I THINK you must have been going to small moneylenders to be quoted interest rates of this sort . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | That creature must have been travelling at 60 miles per hour . |
| 14 | Choose one of the four and try to work out what he or she must have been doing at each stage of the carnival . |
| 15 | There was no law , strictly speaking , against experimenting , although considering the stage which Alexei 's trials had reached , it was clear that he must have been working on this for some time . |
| 16 | This way , everyone — including the other mums — has a chance to forget her bad behaviour , and you 'll break the habit of aggression that your child might have been getting into early . |
| 17 | Although the scribes no doubt made ‘ errors ’ , it should be possible to investigate variable texts in extenso to determine the extent to which variation in spelling ( or indeed in other linguistic dimensions ) is in fact orderly , and whether this variation can help us to work out what might have been happening in spoken English at the time . |
| 18 | Occasionally a light showed silver , faint in one of the streets below , and but for that , and for the sounds as their feet struck the timbers of a bridge , they might have been walking in some open courtyard instead of in narrow alleys raised between the walls of tall buildings . |
| 19 | She 'd 've been lying on Spanish beaches with her eyes tight shut knowing that every Spanish boy who passed would fancy her . |
| 20 | Erm the issue is is that potentially you could be goi we could 've been going for four point three extra people and we probably wo n't do that . |
| 21 | Brian Inglis , a writer on the paranormal , said the spoof could have been damaging for those who had had ghostly experiences . |
| 22 | He could have been walking on another planet The flat , moonlight illuminated landscape , interrupted by large and small pools of bright water seemed unreal . |
| 23 | A State Department official said : ‘ This could have been happening in other places , too . ’ |
| 24 | You could have been making for any one of them in a boat . |
| 25 | He 'd have been undertaking with this man . |
| 26 | It 's thought they may have been drinking in this pub on Wellingborough road earlier in the evening . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | The drawings show some common occupations for women in 1880 and what their great-grand-daughters may have been doing in 1980 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 … |