Example sentences of "[vb mod] have been [v-ing] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Must have been looking for a house . |
| 2 | He must have been looking for the keys . |
| 3 | They must have been riding for a long time , but there was no sign of a large town , only a solitary light shining ahead . |
| 4 | She must have been going for the six o'clock train , and she was probably in a dickens of a rush when … ’ |
| 5 | Your , your arithmetic has really improved you know , you can do these things in your head now whereas not all that long ago you 'd have been reaching for the calculator thinking , oh I ca n't do that . |
| 6 | At this time of the evening they 'd have been drinking for an hour . |
| 7 | Police think whoever did it may have been searching for a non existant stache of money . |
| 8 | In some sense Angela may have been paying for the assets — they had assets valued at £600,000 then , most of it in the lease on the building . |
| 9 | And the car was such a mess nobody would have been looking for a sawn brake cable . ’ |
| 10 | Whitaker and Milton would have been trying for a unique hat-trick in this , the most important of all indoor championships , after winning in Dortmund in 1990 and Gothenburg last year . |