Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] been do " in BNC.
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| 31 | And what 's impressive is they 're doing research that we should have been doing for years ! |
| 32 | Since no minister would authorise a warrant for such tapping it must have been done illegally . |
| 33 | ‘ How she was able to effect all this ’ , her nephew writes in his Memoir , ‘ is surprising , for she had no separate study to repair to , and most of the work must have been done in the general sitting-room , subject to all kinds of casual interruptions . |
| 34 | The complexity of variables thus introduced is almost literally dizzying , and either a lot of complicated sums or ( more likely ) much trial and error , rehearsing with stand-ins , must have been done . |
| 35 | It must be Well it must be it must have been done and er Alison 's in involved in that is n't she ? |
| 36 | The act must have been done at the promisors ’ request : the parties must have understood that the act was to be remunerated either by a payment or the conferment of some other benefit : and payment , or the conferment of a benefit , must have been legally enforceable had it been promised in advance . |
| 37 | Her hair was glossy , perfectly straight and almost black , and it hung thickly around her perfectly-shaped head in a faultless bob that must have been done at Brisbane 's most exclusive hair salon . |
| 38 | The seduction scene afterwards must have been done with an eye for the main chance , before the opportunity disappeared … |
| 39 | I believe it must have been done outside the stable . ’ |
| 40 | ‘ None of the brothers ever heard any disturbance in the night , ’ said Owen sombrely , ‘ but in the night it must have been done , between Lauds and Prime . |
| 41 | Fancy building , I mean that must have been done when , when the house was built . |
| 42 | There is a general passivity , a loss of good conscience — ‘ they must have been doing something very wrong there ’ ; ‘ we must have been wrong ’ ; ‘ I suppose these new ideas must be right ’ ; ‘ I suppose we have got to get used to them ’ , etcetera , etcetera . |
| 43 | He estimated that the car must have been doing at least 18 miles per hour on the curve where it overturned . |
| 44 | Schoolboy Bobby Dennison said : ‘ She missed me and my friend by inches and must have been doing about 60mph . |
| 45 | What intrigues me is that Mailer has spent years on it , has published almost 1,200 pages , is at work on part two and must have been doing all this while the Reagan/Bush/Casey/North epoch went rolling past a society and a mass media obsessed with Nancy 's wardrobe and the cultivation of the perfect junk-bond . |
| 46 | Choose one of the four and try to work out what he or she must have been doing at each stage of the carnival . |
| 47 | You must have been doing something . " |
| 48 | And neighbour Violet Miller said : ‘ He must have been doing about 90 miles an hour . |
| 49 | ‘ I read some of the things Jack said about me , and although it is n't exactly something I re-read every night , I suppose I must have been doing something right for him to make these kind comments . |
| 50 | Well he must have been doing that with the saucepan , he 's pulled all the carpet up . |
| 51 | Anyway , we kept blowing in , and we must have been doing mouth to mouth for about eighteen er about a mi a minute and a half . |
| 52 | As a result , in each instance , the harm that might have been done to the environment was at least delayed or controlled . |
| 53 | The British Museum 's engraving of Derwentwater published by him in Manchester might have been done at the time of Yates ' map-making after West 's encouragement , but it is very poor . |
| 54 | Embarrassed by his lack of courage , he wandered forlornly about the town , finding in an old church a copy of Titian 's ‘ Burial of Christ ’ that might have been done by Breton . |
| 55 | I imagined that this might have been done to obliterate a directional ‘ fix ’ to throw treasure hunters off the scent . |
| 56 | They might have been done , it 's just that we do n't know . |
| 57 | But if the public had known about the problems , they could have demanded improvements — and something might have been done . |
| 58 | The thing that worries some people is that as it 's come at this particular time that some of the things that might have been done five years ago by Local Education Authorities to improve their whole education for children with special needs may now , either through other competing financial pressures , or through inertia or whatever , the whole spirit of Warnock could be lost , and I think it 's a thing that , you know , one will have to keep a careful eye on . |
| 59 | You did not tell me what you had been doing , or where you had been , and you were not interested in whatever I might have been doing . |
| 60 | In the days when she had first known him she had wondered idly whether she might see Rupert round here , ‘ going in ’ or ‘ coming out ’ , though she was not clear when this might be expected or even what he might have been doing . |