Example sentences of "[vb mod] have been [v-ing] [prep] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A dispute with Telecom engineers is holding up the company 's first link in London , and Mercury 's first inter-city line — which should have been operating by now — will not open until next year . |
| 2 | We do not buy live poultry from the local market and carry it home squawking and then wring its neck , nor do we insist that the fish we order in a restaurant should have been swimming about only moments before . |
| 3 | I must have been walking for nearly an hour , he thought . |
| 4 | He estimated that the car must have been doing at least 18 miles per hour on the curve where it overturned . |
| 5 | The first is that the act of self-poisoning may have been rewarding in so far as any subsequent positive changes could be seen as resulting from the act itself . |
| 6 | He may or may not have reached it , but the fact is he did not try where as Chapman would have been flying in there . |