Example sentences of "[vb mod] have been [v-ing] in [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I must say that I feel Charles Greenwich must have been joking in his reply . |
| 2 | LOYAL Bluemen like you and Malcolm Brodie must have been crying in your beer when Bangor turned Linfield over yet again this week . |
| 3 | Some younger ones too may want children to fill some need for love and affection that may have been lacking in their lives . |
| 4 | ‘ So , by preventing Heather from leaving , you would have been acting in her best interests as well as yours ? ’ |
| 5 | Denys and Tania would have been turning in their graves . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ If I had any political objectives I would have been sitting in my cantonment ( barracks ) scheming and planning , ’ Gen Beg said . |
| 7 | When normal people would have been lying in their beds with the covers over their heads , these MPs bounced on to our television screens debating the minutiae of the leadership election system . |
| 8 | As has been shown in detail elsewhere ( Hanko 1986 , 1987 , 1989 ) , knowledge that can highlight the underlying issues has to be supplemented , and skills have to be developed in the group , which the designated supporter will have been applying in his work with children , but now has to redeploy for work with fellow professionals . |