Example sentences of "she [vb mod] have been [v-ing] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He cut into her thoughts with a question about the ball and she repeated her earlier assurance that she 'd had a successful evening , adding that in all conscience she ought to have been driving back to London to work on some of the stories . |
| 2 | And her daughter I think she must have been getting on because around the time she told me that she was eighty , she happened to mention that her daughter was forty . |
| 3 | Only that she must have been holding out on him all these years , that she did have memories which she had covered up or , to give her the benefit of the doubt , conveniently forgotten about . |
| 4 | She must have been staying there at the weekend ! |
| 5 | She must have been sitting there reviewing the happenings of this last year for an age . |
| 6 | She must have been driving more erratically than she thought for she found herself half skewed across the road . |
| 7 | She should have been trying out her identity on friends around her own age , not in front of the world 's media . |
| 8 | With a mental sigh that dimmed her meanings , she turned her attention to what she should have been doing all along . |
| 9 | If she had accepted him , she could have been looking forward to a child of her own now . |
| 10 | Now she was not orientated at all and for all she knew she could have been going round in circles . |
| 11 | Even at this early stage of contact between white and black in Britain , it is clear that she would have been building on already existing racial caricature and prejudice rather than creating an artificial tide of hostility against black people . |
| 12 | A few weeks ago she would have been looking forward to the show , but it had all fallen flat and she had to scold herself severely before she could whip up any enthusiasm at all . |
| 13 | Obviously no expense was being spared to make the night a success , and in different circumstances she would have been looking forward to it , but now , as silence settled over the car , she could feel herself growing tense . |
| 14 | She opened her mouth to fire a barbed reply , then , remembering where she would have been waking up if he had n't bailed her out , she bit her tongue . |