Example sentences of "[vb mod] have been [v-ing] to [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I must have been chatting to him for about 20 minutes and he told me he 'd needed an urgent lift . |
| 2 | ‘ We agreed she must have been talking to someone … ’ |
| 3 | We were walk walking to erm the , down the high street and a plane went over , and erm , I think mum must have been saying to her about Aunty Jill being on holiday , and she went , ah , there 's Aunty Jill in the plane going to the city . |
| 4 | They might have been referring to somebody they knew . |
| 5 | ‘ And it did n't occur to you that I might have been referring to you ? ’ |
| 6 | She might have been speaking to him backwards in Swahili for all the attention he paid her explanation . |
| 7 | But by a proud assertion of " independence " , an eighteenth-century artisan more likely would have been referring to his ability to maintain a wife and family at a proper standard without recourse to charity or poor relief . |
| 8 | Most of the men on the plane would have been returning to their families and civilian life in the near future but , alas , they died on a remote and desolate Ayrshire hillside before they had seen their homes and families again . |
| 9 | Maybe we , it may well be that you were with other people , I wonder what sort of things if you were in a condition of speaking , what sort of things you would have been saying to them . |