Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] [been] [v-ing] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The woman had not looked like a prostitute , besides which had that been the case Fedorov 's driver should have been taking a walk along the quay , or just sitting gazing tactfully ahead . |
| 2 | The other time I came near to being shot was in May , when nobody should have been firing a rifle . |
| 3 | NETRHA officers felt vulnerable on the point that the priority groups should have been getting an increased share of the regional budget . |
| 4 | Musician to the end , he died through insisting on conducting a new revival of Castor et Pollux when he should have been nursing an illness . |
| 5 | 1.9 In every case the onus lies on the defendant to prove that the plaintiff should have been wearing a seat belt and that his injuries would have been avoided or less severe if he had been . |
| 6 | the United fans enjoyed this game … they should have been celebrating a bigger win too … |
| 7 | ‘ I should have been marrying a prince . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Prince Charles should have been running an organic farm , with special interests in the arts . |
| 9 | It must have been chasing a squirrel or something and fell into the hollow and could not get out again . ’ |
| 10 | But one of the offices in the area must have been undergoing a thorough make-over , because along with the garbage and a tangled mess of strip aluminium and ceiling tiles he found a number of office throwouts that included a desk lamp with about five yards of trailing flex . |
| 11 | Greek Intelligence must have been taking a more than passing interest in the activities of our friend Andropulos over a long period , years I would think . |
| 12 | ‘ Something is wrong , Fabia ? ’ he asked urgently , leaving his stance over by the French window where he must have been taking a look outside , to come over to her . |
| 13 | He must have been staggering a bit out there by the pool . |
| 14 | First , D must have been committing a crime . |
| 15 | ‘ And somewhere , ’ Husband said , ‘ Mrs Howard must have been keeping a file on Gustav Eismark . |
| 16 | In the morning , I slept through the pigeons , but around 8.30 a loud banging started down in the nave like they might have been building a scaffold or something . |
| 17 | She might have been wearing a sign like those you see in car windows : GIVE MY CHILD A CHANCE — DO N'T PULL BACK . |
| 18 | Wilkinson , who might have been sporting a more cheerful expression this morning but for a number of glaring misses by Eric Cantona , said : ‘ Whipping the people responsible is not the answer . |
| 19 | But he might have been speaking a foreign language . |
| 20 | He might have been giving an apple to a horse . |
| 21 | He might have been planning a Cooks ' Tour . |
| 22 | The grandparent could have been living a few houses away . |
| 23 | There are a couple of tracks from ‘ The Extremist ’ where it sounds like you could have been using a Les Paul , and that could have been the influence of the new stop tailpiece … |
| 24 | ‘ The evidence extends only as far as the lower scapula , does it not ’ He could have been wearing an off-the-shoulder toga . ’ |
| 25 | While agreeing broadly with the England manager 's summing-up of the present Brazilian team , the thought did occur that in another footballing era he could have been describing an Italian side — brilliant in breakaways but giving nothing away at the back . |
| 26 | The defences could have been protecting an Imperial establishment rather than a small town . |
| 27 | He could have been leading a parade , twirling the baton . |
| 28 | He could have been giving a traffic broadcast . |
| 29 | I thought you 'd have been buying an oil well or something like that . |
| 30 | Much more of that and we 'd have been making a block transfer to the Betty Ford clinic . |