Example sentences of "she [vb mod] have been [v-ing] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She may have been doubting her faith , or at least questioning it . |
| 2 | she must 've been holding it in because she did n't wan na wipe her bum with her hand and then you know it just burst out before she could get to the toilet . |
| 3 | She could n't have been asleep when I lifted the ledger from her lap and scanned its pages : she must have been watching me all the time . |
| 4 | I sa I said about half past three , that she must have been enjoying it because she never once came to me |
| 5 | ‘ She must have been hoping they 'd ask for something she could give . |
| 6 | She must have been giving him instructions to find out where I was last night . |
| 7 | Now several mornings a week when perhaps she should have been concerning herself with the house ( she delegated more and more to the housekeeper , who after all had run everything before she , Lily , had come ) , she would go and sit with Sadie , who was expecting another child at Christmas . |
| 8 | She might 've been calculating something . |
| 9 | He did not answer and she said , ‘ David ? ’ so softly she might have been waking him . |
| 10 | She might have been having it off with Parkin . |
| 11 | Not only did she not help ; in the time when she could have been helping she did things like lining the kitchen cupboards with flowery paper , polishing the brass door knocker , ironing tea-towels and shampooing the TV room carpet . |
| 12 | ‘ She could have been putting it on . ’ |
| 13 | She 'd have been wearing it on a day like this . ’ |