Example sentences of "[vb mod] have been [v-ing] [prep] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fishing , the slides of Tenerife were all irrelevant ; he should have been dealing with Steen . |
| 2 | ‘ They should have been waiting on Victoria station , checking each train that came in . ’ |
| 3 | Taken together the expansion of the middle-class suburbs was from about 28 , inhabitants in 1871 to over three-quarters of a million ( 808,000 ) just after World War I. The other large suburbs , of mixed population , though with working-class majorities , experienced similar trajectories : Lichtenberg grew from 4,700 in 1871 to 145,000 in 1919 , Rixdorf/ Neukolln from 8,145 to 262,000 , and Spandau from 20,500 to 95,500.10 The total population growth of just these large above-mentioned mainly working-class districts was of the order of 1.3 million from 1871 to World War I , a phenomenon which taken together with the revolutionary uprising of 1918 must have been frightening to Berlin 's middle classes in a manner hardly imaginable today . |
| 4 | She suddenly became aware that she must have been thinking of Naylor Massingham for quite a bit of the journey , when she was all at once incredibly jolted by a question that flashed into her head out of nowhere . |
| 5 | Tolkien must have been thinking of Njorthr the sea-god and Skathi , daughter of the mountain-giant , in Snorri Sturluson 's Prose Edda . |
| 6 | She must have been thinking of Steven ( bridegroom 's name ) . |
| 7 | No and we 'd got three young girls , new , new girls and I saw those and I must have been thinking about Mandy and the car because they said something about oh when we leave we 're all going on a picnic to and I think it was Kettering or quite some time aw some |
| 8 | must have been referring to R.S.C. , Ord. 59 , r. 10(3) rather than to the Act of 1960 when he said that ‘ in cases of contempt , however , these powers will be used only in exceptional cases ’ because section 13 is solely concerned with appeals in cases of contempt . |
| 9 | — Anyway , he must have been lying about Mr Bishop . |
| 10 | McMenemy might have been thinking of Steve Williams , another promising talent who 'd already won six England caps when he moved from Southampton to Arsenal in December l984 . |
| 11 | He might have been listening to Moses when he came down from the mountain . |
| 12 | Wrapped up in his agreeably muddled versions of events , he might have been speaking from Mars : and with this last screen show , this cinematic oddity , the scandal sank away . |
| 13 | From the way he said it , he might have been talking about Krull of Varna . |
| 14 | They could have been writing under Stalin : ‘ Life in blocks of apartments … means living under the close scrutiny of your neighbours . |
| 15 | He could have been writing about van Gogh . |
| 16 | Had he lived , we could have been talking about Field Marshal Bradford in World War Two . ’ |
| 17 | He could have been talking about Ken Mentle . |
| 18 | In other words , what would appear to be required is some awareness on the part of the defendant that he was making the task of the police a more difficult one , and this element may have been lacking in Willmott v. Atack , which would explain why the appeal was allowed . |
| 19 | I may have been speaking to Francis but I 'm not certain of that . |
| 20 | In 1987 perhaps the Prime Minister 's pre-election visit to Moscow and her eve-of-election trip to the Venice summit of Western leaders were favourable to her re-election , but ‘ Harold Wilson always asserted that a bad set of trade figures a few days before polling cost him an election , while the effect of being centre-stage during the Iran hostages affair may have been devastating to Jimmy Carter 's fortunes ’ . |
| 21 | Bill was with Boots the Chemist , and may have been working in Peterborough when Kathleen was with us — I ca n't remember . |
| 22 | If we had scored five or six more goals which the statistics prove was possible , then we would have been going to Sydney next year . |
| 23 | The other women , Debbie and her friends , would have been shopping in Newbury or Hungerford , run round the boutiques , for something careless and suitable . |