Example sentences of "they [modal v] have been [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's thought they may have been drinking in this pub on Wellingborough road earlier in the evening . |
| 2 | They may have been suffering with anything from stress-related migraines to pre-menstrual tension . |
| 3 | They must have been watching from a hill-top as I rode towards them because suddenly I was surrounded by a company of about 40 soldiers , all aged between 17 and 18 years . |
| 4 | Master Thomas said they must have been looking for people , not things , and thought you should be warned , so … ’ |
| 5 | They must have been singing for , though Sharpe could hear nothing , he could see their mouths opening and closing in unison . |
| 6 | They must have been riding for a long time , but there was no sign of a large town , only a solitary light shining ahead . |
| 7 | They must have been moving alongside us in cover , taking our measure , and they had two archers ahead , one either side the track . |
| 8 | They must have been waiting in a car , as neither wore an overcoat and both were suddenly there smack in front of me , blocking the pavement , tantalizingly close to home . |
| 9 | But with the Official Custodian sending back these investments , the trustees will have to think of what they should have been thinking about years ago : management of their trust funds . ’ |
| 10 | A TRIAL was halted yesterday after complaints that magistrates had fallen asleep when they should have been listening to evidence . |
| 11 | They should have been negotiating over the location of the European monetary institute and of a subsequent European central bank in the City of London , but they have never even raised those questions , despite the fact that , of all the countries of the European Community , the location of the central bank has much the greatest importance for Britain . |
| 12 | Luke and Sonny knew he was coming on the afternoon train ; they should have been waiting at the railway station with the horse and trap . |
| 13 | ‘ They should have been waiting on Victoria station , checking each train that came in . ’ |
| 14 | They might have been referring to somebody they knew . |
| 15 | Occasionally a light showed silver , faint in one of the streets below , and but for that , and for the sounds as their feet struck the timbers of a bridge , they might have been walking in some open courtyard instead of in narrow alleys raised between the walls of tall buildings . |
| 16 | It was so wet and cold that they might have been walking in the sea , but she did not seem to notice . |
| 17 | But they could 've been talking about something personal and we would 've heard everything they said . |
| 18 | ‘ What do you think they could have been looking for — the people who ransacked her cottage ? ’ |
| 19 | They could have been writing under Stalin : ‘ Life in blocks of apartments … means living under the close scrutiny of your neighbours . |
| 20 | It was completely anarchic , they could have been fighting for anything , cheaper teabags for all they cared , half of them . |
| 21 | At this time of the evening they 'd have been drinking for an hour . |
| 22 | Especially after all the hype about 15pt gap you 'd have thought that they 'd have been looking at the ‘ nearest rival trying to close the gap ! ! ’ . |
| 23 | But for that mole in the Securitate they would have been dawdling through the hills on their own . |
| 24 | There they would have been complaining about the weather , the European Commission 's new fishing controls and the imminence of bankruptcy . |