Example sentences of "[vb mod] have been [v-ing] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Davies arrived home at the time he should have been competing in the Olympics . |
| 2 | I can see my life as a road , and I can go back on that road and see what I 've passed and come to terms with what I have passed by without realising and appreciating ; how I 've stopped in various cafes on the way and met interesting people in them and had fascinating conversations when all the time I should have been speaking to the person on the next table instead . ’ |
| 3 | I can see my life as a road , and I can go back on that road and see what I 've passed and come to terms with and what I have passed by without realising and appreciating ; how I 've stopped in various cafes on the way and met interesting people in them and had fascinating conversations when all the time I should have been speaking to the person on the next table instead . ’ |
| 4 | She should have been thinking about the boys ' tea , and about Frederick 's dinner . |
| 5 | HMS Reading should have been coming in the other direction . |
| 6 | They should have been negotiating over the location of the European monetary institute and of a subsequent European central bank in the City of London , but they have never even raised those questions , despite the fact that , of all the countries of the European Community , the location of the central bank has much the greatest importance for Britain . |
| 7 | My whole thinking , every waking moment should have been concentrating on the 100 metres in which I was still convinced , despite losing to Carl in Madrid earlier in the season , that I could take the gold medal . |
| 8 | In Imperial Gothic he should have been praying to the God-Emperor for help . |
| 9 | As we become more successful in delivering health care in the community , we discover things that we should have been doing in the past but have not done . |
| 10 | Luke and Sonny knew he was coming on the afternoon train ; they should have been waiting at the railway station with the horse and trap . |
| 11 | At best , he should have been waiting until the morning and then politely requesting a desk and a telephone and an interpreter somewhere in the back reaches of their Counter-Terrorism building . |
| 12 | On his return Geoffrey should have been waiting in the wings to assist him into his pirate coat — the hook attached to the sleeve rendered it cumbersome . |
| 13 | When Lloyd George talked about the Empires and Kingdoms , kings and crowns of Europe falling like withered leaves , he should have been talking about the millions of ordinary people , the music and laughter and minutiae of countless lives , washed away like a child 's map drawn on a slate left out in the rain . |
| 14 | ‘ In that case , tell me what you were doing modelling shorts when you should have been rehearsing with the wedding dress you 're to wear at the show . ’ |
| 15 | He must have been looking for the keys . |
| 16 | The third time she saw it Allen was with her but he must have been looking in the wrong place , for he did n't see it although she did n't understand how that could be . |
| 17 | There are a few conditions ; you must have been sailing within the area or bands briefed by the flotilla skipper , timing starts when the lead boat acknowledges the failure , and you must return to UK with a report signed by the flotilla skipper detailing the circumstances . |
| 18 | Ward must have been thinking along the same lines , for as the road flattened out and the mist began to glimmer with a strange brightness , he said something about the Promised Land . |
| 19 | But , fully clothed , he must have been reading in the sitting-room — or maybe he had just come in — when he too had heard the sound of a car crash . |
| 20 | The mercantile agent in disposing of the goods must have been acting in the ordinary course of business of a mercantile agent . |
| 21 | The Rhodesia Metals case was referred to in the Hang Seng Bank case [ 1991 ] 1 A.C. 306 and it follows that when Lord Bridge used the words ‘ place where the property was let ’ he must have been referring to the place where the property let was situated and not to the place or places where the lease happened to have been signed . |
| 22 | He must have been hiding in the back room behind the stage all the time . |
| 23 | You must have been listening to the B.B.C. or something . ’ |
| 24 | And it gets in your hair and it gets in your clothes , she must have been listening to the television . |
| 25 | Whoever it was must have been waiting by the telephone for the call . |
| 26 | Then she looked swiftly , secretly with her large eyes back to where Conchis must have been sitting at the harpsichord , and then again at me . |
| 27 | She must have been sitting over the phone . |
| 28 | She must have been going for the six o'clock train , and she was probably in a dickens of a rush when … ’ |
| 29 | Well you must have been going during the day while I was at work then . |
| 30 | Members must have been trading in the UK for at least two years and must disclose their turnover and profits — lack of profits are not a bar to membership however , he added , because ‘ we would hate to disallow the big international business machine companies ’ . |