Example sentences of "[vb infin] [be] [v-ing] that " in BNC.
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1 | Could she really have been reading that ? he wondered , looking around for the novel stuffed behind a cushion . |
2 | ' … which he thought he might have been wearing that afternoon and then changed his mind and said he had n't , ’ continued Harris , unperturbed by the interruption . |
3 | ‘ Another smile like the one you were giving him and he would have been fastening that ribbon himself . |
4 | It must have been discouraging that Adieu was not thought worthy to be given at Sadler 's Wells , and that the more handsome setting which Stevenson had designed for it was not used at that time . |
5 | Institute Council member Douglas Llambias said the fine ‘ was out of all proportion to a guilty verdict ’ , and added that if the fines were capped , ‘ we should have been publicising that for the last 12 months . |
6 | The death of Matthew Makepeace , the man who should have been lecturing that afternoon , ‘ one of the most promising scholars of his generation ’ , the old Professor used to tell us , was ‘ an inestimable loss to the department and the university as a whole ’ . |
7 | He had a strange sensation that for many minutes he had been holding his breath , though he could n't of course have been doing that . |
8 | Should n't have been doing that and should n't have been doing that . |
9 | Should n't have been doing that and should n't have been doing that . |
10 | Well he must have been doing that with the saucepan , he 's pulled all the carpet up . |
11 | You 'd have been doing that . |