Example sentences of "[vb mod] have been [v-ing] [prep] their " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some younger ones too may want children to fill some need for love and affection that may have been lacking in their lives . |
| 2 | Others , again , wished to defend Europe against Islam ; the dukes of Normandy and Lower Lorraine may have been fleeing from their incapacity to rule their duchies . |
| 3 | Denys and Tania would have been turning in their graves . ’ |
| 4 | Most of the men on the plane would have been returning to their families and civilian life in the near future but , alas , they died on a remote and desolate Ayrshire hillside before they had seen their homes and families again . |
| 5 | When normal people would have been lying in their beds with the covers over their heads , these MPs bounced on to our television screens debating the minutiae of the leadership election system . |