Example sentences of "[vb mod] have been [v-ing] [prep] his " in BNC.
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| 1 | I must say that I feel Charles Greenwich must have been joking in his reply . |
| 2 | Grant got the impression that Larsen must have been waiting for his signal , like a sprinter crouched in his blocks waiting for the starter 's gun to launch him into motion . |
| 3 | It was held that since the buyer knew much more about Persia than the seller , he must have been relying on his own judgment as to whether the tractors were suitable for the Persian market . |
| 4 | He could have been crying for his mummy . |
| 5 | But by a proud assertion of " independence " , an eighteenth-century artisan more likely would have been referring to his ability to maintain a wife and family at a proper standard without recourse to charity or poor relief . |
| 6 | Right , this is my er the original beret but this is a beret that every single officer would have been wearing on his head and then er in relation to the actual uniform that the officer would be wearing er we wear jumpsuits . |
| 7 | Then in his fifth year at the school , when he ought to have been aiming for his school certificate which was the next and essential passport for that golden educated future , he left abruptly to work as a haberdasher 's assistant in the local Co-operative store . |
| 8 | As has been shown in detail elsewhere ( Hanko 1986 , 1987 , 1989 ) , knowledge that can highlight the underlying issues has to be supplemented , and skills have to be developed in the group , which the designated supporter will have been applying in his work with children , but now has to redeploy for work with fellow professionals . |