Example sentences of "[pron] [modal v] have been [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of them must have been terrifying . |
| 2 | Well , both of them should have been wearing their life jackets before they were over water , and X should not have stowed the dinghy in the locker area when he could have kept it closer to hand on one of the spare rear seats . |
| 3 | ‘ I may have been thinking of using the money saved from the mortgage payments on a new telly or something , but not now . ’ |
| 4 | I may have been speaking to Francis but I 'm not certain of that . |
| 5 | I may have been approaching it from the wrong angle . |
| 6 | I had only just noticed her — so I must have been taking things seriously — but she was worth waiting to be polite to . |
| 7 | I can remember Leslie coming home , I think I must have been expecting Doreen at the time , that was in , that was early early on , nineteen , well that was nineteen sixty three , and he was , he had heard that had I had been in the Gatehouse Drama Club , and er he said , Would I be interested in com in coming to the Drama in if they started ? |
| 8 | I must have been subsidizing you . |
| 9 | No wonder poor Dad was embarrassed , even though I must have been repeating something that he himself had said . |
| 10 | I must have been chatting to him for about 20 minutes and he told me he 'd needed an urgent lift . |
| 11 | No and we 'd got three young girls , new , new girls and I saw those and I must have been thinking about Mandy and the car because they said something about oh when we leave we 're all going on a picnic to and I think it was Kettering or quite some time aw some |
| 12 | If food 's got anything to do with it then I must have been eating the wrong way for the last 40 years . |
| 13 | The truth is that I have this slight problem with my jaw It gets sort of locked sometimes and I think in that picture I must have been trying to loosen it up . ’ |
| 14 | I think I must have been stumbling round . |
| 15 | I must have been misguiding myself for a very long time Mr . |
| 16 | I must have been knitting . |
| 17 | ‘ I must have been resting them , ’ she protested . |
| 18 | I suppose I must have been intending to explain to Mr Farraday how I would thus be able to explore an option which might prove the ideal solution to our present small problems here in this house . |
| 19 | ‘ I must have been waiting too . |
| 20 | I must have been sitting here on the edge of his bed , first singing and stroking , then just stroking , for half an hour or so . |
| 21 | ‘ 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 . |
| 22 | ‘ I must have been feeling manic depressive when I had this done . |
| 23 | I must have been walking for nearly an hour , he thought . |
| 24 | I must have been dreaming . |
| 25 | I must have been arranging those flowers , and setting the lighted candles round them , at the very moment my father was dying . |
| 26 | At half past three Kaptan and I should have been reading from one of the textbooks but , in fact , I was lying in the Colonel 's hammock while Kaptan , with his inexhaustible energy , was trying to catch frogs . |
| 27 | This was the first time I had seen him surf in the flesh , but for an entire month I had contemplated him pulling fearlessly into a vicious Pipeline tube when I should have been writing lectures . |
| 28 | I can see my life as a road , and I can go back on that road and see what I 've passed and come to terms with what I have passed by without realising and appreciating ; how I 've stopped in various cafes on the way and met interesting people in them and had fascinating conversations when all the time I should have been speaking to the person on the next table instead . ’ |
| 29 | I can see my life as a road , and I can go back on that road and see what I 've passed and come to terms with and what I have passed by without realising and appreciating ; how I 've stopped in various cafes on the way and met interesting people in them and had fascinating conversations when all the time I should have been speaking to the person on the next table instead . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ The irony is that I did n't realise till Christmas , when I knew I loved you , that it was someone like you I should have been looking for all these years since . ’ |