Example sentences of "[modal v] have [been] [v-ing] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She should have been sharing breakfast with Kelly right now , laughing and chatting , catching up on all that had been happening over the past few months . |
| 2 | Second , they should have been using heroin regularly for a period of at least two years . |
| 3 | But I think that if it had been , the horses should have been showing distress by last night , which they were n't . |
| 4 | When the Lions should have been exerting control from a position of 31–3 ahead with 28 minutes left , it was Southland who did the scoring and the Lions ' only score in that final period was a drop goal from Tony Clement . |
| 5 | We should have been putting money by for a rainy day because that rainy day came . |
| 6 | This presumably posed a risk to airline uniforms ; was likely to distract passengers ( the male ones at any rate ) at a time when they should have been paying attention to the cabin staff for rather different reasons ; and carried the ultimate danger of the implant exploding . |
| 7 | I suppose I should have been paying attention to the old artist , when he was telling me that the thing had to be carried in near-vacuum with traces of helium and neon but definitely no oxygen , which would destroy it . |
| 8 | We should have been running south ! ’ |
| 9 | The fact that after the Great War the Liberal party went into decline and the Labour party emerged as a governmental party seemed to indicate that the most interesting developments must have been taking place on the left of British politics , even before the war . |
| 10 | Thus he must have been singing falsetto in this role . |
| 11 | You must have been expecting trouble . ’ |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | He must have been chopping wood outside and forgotten to hide it . |
| 14 | Therefore Neill LJ must have been contemplating protection by an express restrictive covenant of confidential information in respect of which an obligation against use or disclosure after the determination of the employment could not be implied . |
| 15 | ‘ Yet you must have been keeping watch on the house — why ? ’ |
| 16 | They must have been unpacking Rice Crispies . |
| 17 | They had taken the very unusual step of advertising in the local newspaper for anyone to come forward who knew of any ritual practices that might have been taking place in South Ronaldsay . |
| 18 | But D.W. Winnicott may be helpful in this context in suggesting what sort of process might have been taking place . |
| 19 | He wrote to his friend R.S. Dods in Australia , ‘ … it looks so reasonable , so kindly , so perfectly beautiful , that you feel that people might have been making love , and living and dying there and dear little children running about for — the last - I was going to say 1,000 years — anyway , 600 . |
| 20 | Her voice very nearly cracked at the thought that Fen might have been making love to his girlfriend only feet away from where she , Robbie , lay . |
| 21 | They might have been playing chess . |
| 22 | In fact , the high quality of iron ore available to the Romans in Britain combined with the use of charcoal fuel in the smelting process , meant that they could have been producing steel which would have given a much harder and sharper edge to the blade than normal iron . |
| 23 | Perot was furious ; instead of chasing chimeras , his money could have been earning interest in the bank . |
| 24 | He could have been composing rubbish for all I was competent to judge , yet that possibility did not enter my head . |
| 25 | Mick added : ‘ I was pretty proud , but if I 'd cooked it , I 'd have been eating pumpkin pie all year . ’ |
| 26 | This is an excellent opportunity for students to consolidate their studies and deal with any outstanding aspects which may have been causing difficulty . |
| 27 | This result could have been due to the inclusion of mostly elderly patients in the control group who may have been harbouring M tuberculosis from a primary asymptomatic tuberculous infection , which was common in their youth . |
| 28 | either subconsciously or consciously interpreted them to , to mean something other than actually what may have been taking place . |
| 29 | The Minoans were capable of producing a large surplus of olive oil which could have been exported ; some of the oil filling the store-rooms of the Knossos Labyrinth at the time of the 1380 BC fire may have been awaiting export . |
| 30 | The gallery would have been facing East . |