Example sentences of "[vb mod] have [been] [v-ing] [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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1 | 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 . |
2 | That creature must have been travelling at 60 miles per hour . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | The drawings show some common occupations for women in 1880 and what their great-grand-daughters may have been doing in 1980 . |
5 | At 10 o'clock when the Division bell goes , the House will have been sitting for seven and a half hours , from prayers through questions , statements and this debate . |