Example sentences of "[vb mod] have [been] [v-ing] [pron] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps he should have been expecting her question . |
| 2 | Well , both of them should have been wearing their life jackets before they were over water , and X should not have stowed the dinghy in the locker area when he could have kept it closer to hand on one of the spare rear seats . |
| 3 | One frowning look at the table where a pint pot of tea and a plate of scones or buns should have been awaiting his arrival , sent Martha and Lydia scurrying frantically about until his needs had been met . |
| 4 | For this reason alone , there was no reason why individuals should have been pressing their case to be personally excluded from repatriation . |
| 5 | As leader of Germany 's opposition Social Democrats , he should have been rallying his party for battle against a tired , 11-year-old government in a general election in 1994 . |
| 6 | All this time Mr Rayne on one side of the staircase and Mr Worseley on the other , each with half a dozen men , should have been fighting their way back to converge with his own party in the hall . |
| 7 | If you are thinking about it talking person to person remember the guy on the building site remember the woman who 's pregnant and trying to sell insurance and getting him to he should have been securing his family welfare and so on . |
| 8 | It must have been seeing her reading Tennyson that had dredged up an old forgotten quotation . |
| 9 | It had been in all the national papers , but news is quickly forgotten , and at that time Willi must have been mourning his wife , trying to cope with loneliness and a small son , submerged in his own misery . |
| 10 | And within two minutes of this Group One clash , Goram must have been wishing his accreditation had n't come through . |
| 11 | Aunt Lyallie must have been needling my mother while I was away , because one day she suddenly asked me , with tremulous anxiety : ‘ Why do n't you get married , Jim ? |
| 12 | He 'll have been sending his money out there for years , all ready and waiting for him to arrive . ’ |
| 13 | He might have been taking his temperature . |
| 14 | He might have been reading her mind . |
| 15 | He argued that teenagers were wasting their opportunities at Dovercourt , keeping the futile hope alive that they would be adopted by rich families and lead a fine life , when they could have been using their time to constructive purpose . |
| 16 | He could have been warning his receptionist off the line or switching off — or on — a recording device . |
| 17 | ‘ I 'd have been wasting my breath , Julia . |
| 18 | She may have been doubting her faith , or at least questioning it . |
| 19 | Americans from the US and the same background would have been emphasising their masculinity by drinking large rums and making too much noise . |
| 20 | But according to the common understanding of neutrality , Uruguay would have been breaking its neutrality if in the circumstances described it would have started supplying one of the parties with militarily useful materials after the outbreak of hostilities . |
| 21 | That I did n't tell Richard , was partly for Sophie 's sake — to say she had become interested in politics would have been stretching his credulity too far — but also for my own . |
| 22 | Gray ought to have been cancelling his youth club , which he usually held on a Thursday evening . |