Example sentences of "he [modal v] [verb] been [v-ing] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then in his fifth year at the school , when he ought to have been aiming for his school certificate which was the next and essential passport for that golden educated future , he left abruptly to work as a haberdasher 's assistant in the local Co-operative store . |
| 2 | Edward Nundy , 55 , of Southend , Essex , was allegedly seen at his boat when he should have been working for Car Buyer magazine . |
| 3 | He must have been gouging for half an hour when an idea seemed to strike him . |
| 4 | He must have been looking for the keys . |
| 5 | He must have been looking for bathroom . |
| 6 | ‘ He must have been driving for hours . ’ |
| 7 | His stillness made them hesitate ; he might have been watching for fish but the stream was hardly large enough for trout , only minnows or sticklebacks Libby pressed close to George , they stayed on the path watching . |
| 8 | He might have been waiting for someone . |
| 9 | He could have been crying for his mummy . |
| 10 | The irony for England was that had he decided differently he would have been playing for them rather than against them , for his parents had brought him from Barbados at the age of twelve to live in Reading , and he had played for England schoolboys . |