Example sentences of "[vb mod] have [be] [v-ing] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Worse still , the new skiers — beginners — who should have been making up for those who stop because old age or the arrival of infants stops ski holidays — were simply not attracted to a sport when everyone was complaining about bad conditions . |
| 2 | What happened , people should have been paying in for ten years were suddenly taking out for ten years and these huge enormous sums and obviously the surplus which our members had helped to build up er and provide through the years and we 've got seventy-five year olds on you know , extremely low pensions hardly making ends meet , and there were vast sums of money being given away to the employees , that the employers took a contribution holiday and so they were n't paying into the fund either you know , and all the profits of B T as you all know were soaring and partially because of the use of the pension funds and this has greatly obviously erm upset our members and we feel very strongly about it . |
| 3 | The hon. Member for Dagenham must have been speaking out of turn at that time ; he has certainly been nobbled since . |
| 4 | ‘ Come on , ye had the opportunity , and after that extraordinary scene in the garden ye must have been bubblin' over with curiosity . ’ |
| 5 | This still lovely riverine landscape must have been settling down from its major reshaping when William Morris bought Kelmscott Manor in 1871 . |
| 6 | Only that she must have been holding out on him all these years , that she did have memories which she had covered up or , to give her the benefit of the doubt , conveniently forgotten about . |
| 7 | He must have been hiding out with Tanner , or gone round to scrounge a meal . ’ |
| 8 | All this head of steam must have been boiling up at the time of JTR 's visit and yet he seems not to have been aware of it . |
| 9 | We must have been going round like zombies . |
| 10 | The argument must have been going on for some time , although Lucien had been hardly aware of it . |
| 11 | It is a sort of cultural conflict which must have been going on in the husband 's mind . |
| 12 | Might have been queuing up for the keep-fit actually , yes I was , I was queuing up to go to keep-fit and there was a woman in the queue saying that about so and so and so , ooh he 's moving she said ! |
| 13 | As I followed her up the pathway , every inch of her breathed that she was being a good girl , and as the driver settled her in the front seat beside him she gave him a happy smile ; almost , one felt — seeing the hat-boxes and cases piled up behind them — they might have been starting out on their honeymoon . |
| 14 | Now she was not orientated at all and for all she knew she could have been going round in circles . |
| 15 | He could have been plummeting down to the centre of the earth , in a submarine nudging over the seabed or flying soundlessly through outer space . |
| 16 | ‘ I wo n't deny that , Mrs Wilson , but there was a period , just before she disappeared … well , I say just before she disappeared but it may have been going on for years , I do n't know … there was a period when she was very unhappy , very unhappy indeed . ’ |
| 17 | He believes that the bourgeois epoch of history is in its terminal crisis , but concedes that this crisis may have been going on since 1848 , which stretches not only ‘ bourgeois ’ but ‘ crisis ’ to breakingpoint . |
| 18 | In fact , you can use your Steamatic to tackle those tough and often unpleasant jobs that you may have been putting off for ages . |
| 19 | If it had been someone else 's funeral George would have been looking out for the nearest pub . |
| 20 | He would have been acting out of character and trying on something his party had wearied of . |
| 21 | He would have been fighting out of his class . |
| 22 | He cut into her thoughts with a question about the ball and she repeated her earlier assurance that she 'd had a successful evening , adding that in all conscience she ought to have been driving back to London to work on some of the stories . |
| 23 | Sometimes a murder enquiry will have been going on for some days before it emerges that there is a sexual element involved . |