Example sentences of "[modal v] have [been] going [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We must have been going round like zombies . |
| 2 | erm I think two people have had tremendous problems and again must have been going up and down St Aldate 's , because they were very busy officials , was Edward Hyde , who later became Earl of Clarendon and wrote his story of the war , again of course from the Royalist point of view , and his great friend , Lord Falkland , who was Secretary of State for the King , and became so upset and worried by the rash policies of the Queen 's party and the general atmosphere of intrigue , and by the war itself , that he does seem to have more or less committed suicide at the battle of Newbury , by riding ahead of his troops into the enemy . |
| 3 | It is a sort of cultural conflict which must have been going on in the husband 's mind . |
| 4 | The argument must have been going on for some time , although Lucien had been hardly aware of it . |
| 5 | This confused Benny at first , until she realized that they must have been going deeper into the complex , while Froebe would have assumed she was making for the outside . |
| 6 | For a clue as to what might have been going on , we turn again to the Chinese system of feng shui , which was mentioned in Chapter 4 . |
| 7 | However , in general , he was not allowed to go there since his presence excited all of the large apes housed there and interfered with any research that might have been going on . |
| 8 | Engaged in a quarrel , in which some bullying might have been going on , the younger boy had produced a pistol and shouted : ‘ You wo n't touch me when I have this . |
| 9 | Now she was not orientated at all and for all she knew she could have been going round in circles . |
| 10 | We were so easy with each other , we could have been going out together . |
| 11 | No but I mean I I I was planning on having a break in the middle but y most of you voted and you wanted a break at the start but perhaps it would 've , but then you you 'd have been going straight on from s w phonetics |
| 12 | He believes that the bourgeois epoch of history is in its terminal crisis , but concedes that this crisis may have been going on since 1848 , which stretches not only ‘ bourgeois ’ but ‘ crisis ’ to breakingpoint . |
| 13 | ‘ I wo n't deny that , Mrs Wilson , but there was a period , just before she disappeared … well , I say just before she disappeared but it may have been going on for years , I do n't know … there was a period when she was very unhappy , very unhappy indeed . ’ |
| 14 | Sometimes a murder enquiry will have been going on for some days before it emerges that there is a sexual element involved . |
| 15 | This , like the argument about human progress , suggests that the universe can have been going only for a finite time . |