Example sentences of "have been [v-ing] [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She should have been thinking about the boys ' tea , and about Frederick 's dinner . |
| 2 | All these species are common migrants which appear in Shetland every year , and I could n't help wondering if any of those we were hearing and seeing may have been feeding in the bushes in my garden a short time before … |
| 3 | Davies arrived home at the time he should have been competing in the Olympics . |
| 4 | He must have been looking for the keys . |
| 5 | But for that mole in the Securitate they would have been dawdling through the hills on their own . |
| 6 | In some sense Angela may have been paying for the assets — they had assets valued at £600,000 then , most of it in the lease on the building . |
| 7 | And he should n't have been going in the woods , should he ? |
| 8 | Had there ever been a possibility that she may have been following in the footsteps of Linda Rooke and , ahem , disrobing ? |
| 9 | Had the operator of the giant video screen been allowed to go on merrily replaying the more explosive moments , there could have been rioting on the terraces , where already the stewards had their work cut out . |
| 10 | But other accounts of Summerchild 's death must have been appearing in the newspapers somewhere , because a little further on there is another cutting from The Times . |
| 11 | On his return Geoffrey should have been waiting in the wings to assist him into his pirate coat — the hook attached to the sleeve rendered it cumbersome . |
| 12 | ‘ It must have been lying in the ferns and took fright when I came along . ’ |
| 13 | That he could not command the bench of bishops into a unified stance on political affairs reflects less upon him than upon the variety of episcopal origins and experience : royal clerks may have been increasing among the bishops , but it is a mistake to regard them as if they were all identical in background and outlook . |
| 14 | Mr Wildish discounted reports that Nicola , from Biddulph , Staffs , might have been suffering from the effects of laced drinks . |