Example sentences of "[vb mod] be [v-ing] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Just the same , I should be leaving soon , ’ she said firmly . |
| 2 | ‘ He should be leaving about now , and if I know him he 'll have left me to pay his hotel bill . |
| 3 | ‘ You 're wasting our time and yours when you should be hunting down those IRA swine . ’ |
| 4 | He said : ‘ We are bound to face criticism from both sides , from people saying we should be locking up thousands of juvenile offenders and throwing away the key and others throwing up their hands and saying they are like the old approved schools and will be universities of crime . ’ |
| 5 | It is the villains we should be locking up . ’ |
| 6 | We should be helping not blaming each other . ’ |
| 7 | The fingers and hands should be pointing downwards in this exercise . |
| 8 | Ideally , when touch legering , the rod should be pointing directly at the bait , so that the line does not have to travel over any angles . |
| 9 | We should be looking not at such practice in the past but rather in the future — more of that later . |
| 10 | We should be looking not just at what we give , but to ensuring that the United States and others pay their back dues . |
| 11 | But , yes , we should be looking ahead . |
| 12 | No I do n't think she 's ready quite yet , she 's got a few things to sort out first and that 's definitely not right , she wants to raise the daggerboard not lower it , bit of confusion there about which way to turn the tiller but she 's round safely , she should be looking where she 's going now instead of sorting out all the string . |
| 13 | You should be looking where you were going . |
| 14 | now we should be looking forward at our new organization . |
| 15 | We saw them we should be looking forward . |
| 16 | Should be looking forward to excellent crimble then when we get to play the likes of Norwich , Arsenil and the Scum . |
| 17 | If you are avoiding fried food , it follows that you should be seeking out the best methods of cooking noted on the menu . |
| 18 | Steady wind in an open area is what you should be seeking long before the lines are laid out . |
| 19 | If anything , they should be expanding rather than removing it . ’ |
| 20 | In cases of this sort , the pure repetition of information and the reader 's expectation that the discourse should be moving forward are reconciled by finding an indirect interpretation of the message . |
| 21 | And that 's the way the authorities should be moving forward with their planning for the county . |
| 22 | Jean had n't long passed her driving test and I tried to help by pointing out when she should be moving up through the gears . |
| 23 | However , all too often when two-spit digging is recommended , the point that is not made clear is that we should be thinking primarily about the needs of the plants that are to grow in the dug soil . |
| 24 | — when surely they should be thinking instead about the person who has died . |
| 25 | You should be thinking beforehand , is this really right or is n't it ? |
| 26 | That this Second World War would not last so long as the First , and even that it might not be a war on such a world-scale , were legitimate presumptions at the time , and Eliot was firmly of the opinion that we should be thinking then and there of the world which would finally emerge . |
| 27 | So perhaps we should be thinking more about political education and perhaps we should be thinking more about encouraging them to be non-conformist in the sense that they are prepared to ask questions , to challenge and not to accept glib answers that teachers give out willy nilly … |
| 28 | So perhaps we should be thinking more about political education and perhaps we should be thinking more about encouraging them to be non-conformist in the sense that they are prepared to ask questions , to challenge and not to accept glib answers that teachers give out willy nilly … |
| 29 | At the very least , both communities should be thinking seriously about the possibility — and how they would react to it . |
| 30 | By the age of 25 or so the oiliness should be settling down but you may find yourself with a new problem : laughter and frown lines must finally be acknowledged as the first signs of an ageing skin . |