Example sentences of "he [modal v] [verb] [been] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He should have been doing this a year or two ago , in the hope that extra jobs would have been created before now . |
| 2 | The suddenness of the increased use of artillery in the third quarter of the fourteenth century is evidenced by the fact that when Gaston Fébus , vicomte of Béarn in the Pyrenees , had a network of fortifications constructed between 1365 and 1380 ( a period during which many castles were built in France ) he must have been building some of the last fortifications to take no account of artillery , which was very soon to compel important developments in the art of defence . |
| 3 | He must have been causing some problems . |
| 4 | Well he must have been doing that with the saucepan , he 's pulled all the carpet up . |
| 5 | ' … which he thought he might have been wearing that afternoon and then changed his mind and said he had n't , ’ continued Harris , unperturbed by the interruption . |
| 6 | He was dead to the world , so deeply asleep that she wondered what on earth he could have been doing half the night . |
| 7 | ‘ Another smile like the one you were giving him and he would have been fastening that ribbon himself . |