Example sentences of "[vb mod] have been [v-ing] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A TRIAL was halted yesterday after complaints that magistrates had fallen asleep when they should have been listening to evidence . |
| 2 | Edward Nundy , 55 , of Southend , Essex , was allegedly seen at his boat when he should have been working for Car Buyer magazine . |
| 3 | ‘ What a lovely thing to do , ’ he remarked and , appalled at his patronising tone , told her that her ears should have been burning on Christmas Day . |
| 4 | He must have been looking for bathroom . |
| 5 | The entire college must have been humming with gossip and speculation . |
| 6 | It concluded that Kennedy was shot by Oswald acting alone , a verdict which has been questioned ever since by those believing that he must have been acting as part of a conspiracy . |
| 7 | All those changes must have been happening in parallel with these other ones . |
| 8 | And he must have been testin' in part fur flight refuellin' because Rodriguez says in his book he was refuelled somewhere over the Bellingshausen Sea , which is a long way west of the area where Sunderby lost his life . ’ |
| 9 | Ferguson 's promise was more praiseworthy than pondering how much Germany might have been holding in reserve . |
| 10 | The nursing home to which her husband has her committed after her eccentricity has become dangerous , and from which she and the other residents are eventually ejected to be cared for by an amorphous ‘ community ’ , might have been lying in wait for her from the day she was born . |
| 11 | ‘ Tom might have been talking in jest a while back , but there 's nothing to say you wo n't have another family between the two of you . |
| 12 | ‘ No one … ’ began Sally-Anne passionately , thinking of all that she had seen since arriving in Vetch Street — the poor creatures in Dr Neil 's surgery , and the even poorer ones who could not afford to go there — and of Dr Neil 's own selflessness letting people off their bills , so that only the small income he still received from an aunt 's legacy allowed him to keep going at all , when he could have been revelling with Stair . |
| 13 | She was discussing problems in Lee 's living-room but she could have been standing in front of a giant black door in the middle of a forest . |
| 14 | She seemed so angry that she could have been talking about hate , or revenge , or death , rather than love . |
| 15 | By 1815 the canals may have been carrying in excess of 10 million tons of coal , not only more cheaply — on average coal prices ( and those of other bulky materials ) fell by between 50 and 70 per cent in larger urban centres with the opening of a canal — but also over an extended reach . |
| 16 | It was held that Williams was not guilty , since had the facts been as he believed them to be , he would have been acting in defence of the other . |
| 17 | And these were the very works , The Golden Bough , Welker Psychologie which Freud 's contemporaries would have been reading in English and German . |
| 18 | An independent manager would have been fighting on behalf of his artist for just such a concession ; but for a manager who owned the record company , that meant arguing against himself . |
| 19 | That run/shot would have been impossible from anywhere BUT the centre of the pitch ( he would have been running across goal and also towards defenders . |
| 20 | If the City chairman had sacked Mel Machin to bring in a John Bond or Malcolm Allison then heads really would have been shaking in wonderment at another Peter Swales masterstroke . |
| 21 | Trying to interrogate officers of the Grand Army would have been asking for trouble . |
| 22 | He would have liked to have watched it from the public gallery ; but that would have been asking for trouble . |
| 23 | Magistrate John Pemberton told Wendy , who now has a steady boyfriend , aged 24 : ‘ If prostitution had been involved you would have been going to prison . ’ |
| 24 | She felt as though , had she been a dog , all her hair would have been standing on end . |
| 25 | If I 'd been the archer , I thought , I would have been waiting in position , crouched and camouflaged , endlessly patient , arrow notched on bow . |
| 26 | But nor does it matter ; ‘ our club ’ will have been seething with talk for days , and ‘ I ’ am bound to have heard about Stavrogin 's escapade . |