Example sentences of "i [vb mod] [verb] been [v-ing] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I must have been feeling manic depressive when I had this done . |
| 2 | I must have been arranging those flowers , and setting the lighted candles round them , at the very moment my father was dying . |
| 3 | ‘ Then I catch up with what I should have been doing all day . |
| 4 | When I lived right on the job it used to drive my wife round the bend — I 'd be at home on a weekend , perhaps in the garden , and I 'd think about something in the greenhouse across the road so I 'd go over there and disappear for an hour whereas perhaps I should have been giving more time to my family . |
| 5 | ‘ For all you knew , I could have been sleeping naked ! ’ |
| 6 | ‘ If I 'd been fitter I would have been sitting next to him on that aeroplane , ’ said heartbroken Fiona , who had nicknamed her lover the ‘ Kiwi Crocodile Dundee . ’ |