Example sentences of "i [vb mod] [verb] been [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had only just noticed her — so I must have been taking things seriously — but she was worth waiting to be polite to . |
| 2 | I can remember Leslie coming home , I think I must have been expecting Doreen at the time , that was in , that was early early on , nineteen , well that was nineteen sixty three , and he was , he had heard that had I had been in the Gatehouse Drama Club , and er he said , Would I be interested in com in coming to the Drama in if they started ? |
| 3 | This was the first time I had seen him surf in the flesh , but for an entire month I had contemplated him pulling fearlessly into a vicious Pipeline tube when I should have been writing lectures . |
| 4 | This entailed an eighty-mile drive in all , at a time when I should have been making sandwiches for the post-funeral bun-fight . |
| 5 | I suppose I should have been paying attention to the old artist , when he was telling me that the thing had to be carried in near-vacuum with traces of helium and neon but definitely no oxygen , which would destroy it . |
| 6 | For everything that we 've done there , all the way through , I should have been saying logs . |
| 7 | Mick added : ‘ I was pretty proud , but if I 'd cooked it , I 'd have been eating pumpkin pie all year . ’ |
| 8 | But he maintains that boxing is not his favourite sport , saying without hesitation : ‘ If my father had had the budget for it when I was young , I would have been doing motor racing . ’ |
| 9 | If there were bouncers on mountains I would have been refused entry to the crags on more occasions than I care to recall . |