Example sentences of "[vb mod] have been [v-ing] [prep] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , by April 1982 , surely the Cabinet should have been thinking about it . |
| 2 | We have worked with the Government when we should have been working against it . |
| 3 | She must have been looking for me because a few seconds later she spotted me and came over . |
| 4 | I must have been chatting to him for about 20 minutes and he told me he 'd needed an urgent lift . |
| 5 | I suppose he must have been choosing between them . |
| 6 | It must have been irritating for you . " |
| 7 | They must have been moving alongside us in cover , taking our measure , and they had two archers ahead , one either side the track . |
| 8 | But someone must have been slipping amongst them like a stoat , noting , memorizing , carrying word stealthily to the Duke of Atholl . |
| 9 | When it touched Parker it had evidently acquired a tremendous spin , and for a second it must have been spinning beneath me . |
| 10 | He must have been working on it in January 1948 at the latest , since the book was sent to the printers in the second week of February . |
| 11 | We were walk walking to erm the , down the high street and a plane went over , and erm , I think mum must have been saying to her about Aunty Jill being on holiday , and she went , ah , there 's Aunty Jill in the plane going to the city . |
| 12 | ‘ And it did n't occur to you that I might have been referring to you ? ’ |
| 13 | She might have been speaking to him backwards in Swahili for all the attention he paid her explanation . |
| 14 | th you er I mean if it were very heavy you 'd almost sort of be prepared for it to go , but you know when you 're s s standing with a , something quite light , and you might have been standing with it a little while in your hand , and then suddenly the hand goes and ca n't you see that 's ve that 's very upsetting , it makes you not very confident . |
| 15 | Barbara Coleman had said Maurin was responsible for keeping her hidden , and therefore the men who attacked Edouard could have been acting for him . |
| 16 | I suppose in the old days , if we 'd been like you , she 'd have been living with us as a matter of course . ’ |
| 17 | I think it would have been the Zetland , and — who knows — Mrs Field may have been riding with them that day . |
| 18 | The word ‘ championship ’ , however , no matter how much he may have been thinking about it privately , I did not hear from him until much later in the year , when the scales began to tip in his favour . |
| 19 | But no one else would have been looking for it . |
| 20 | I knew that when at last I was demobilised from the Waaf I would have to return to my peacetime occupation as a secretary in London , for the simple reason that my employers had been paying me my full salary all the time I had been in the Forces , that is , making up the difference between my Waaf pay and what I would have been earning with them . |
| 21 | ‘ I know Ron would have been shouting for him . |
| 22 | Apart from the health risk , it would have been disturbing for them to see the damage . |
| 23 | Apart from the health risk , it would have been disturbing for them to see the damage . |
| 24 | Maybe we , it may well be that you were with other people , I wonder what sort of things if you were in a condition of speaking , what sort of things you would have been saying to them . |
| 25 | The irony for England was that had he decided differently he would have been playing for them rather than against them , for his parents had brought him from Barbados at the age of twelve to live in Reading , and he had played for England schoolboys . |