Example sentences of "[vb mod] have [be] [v-ing] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | she must 've been holding it in because she did n't wan na wipe her bum with her hand and then you know it just burst out before she could get to the toilet . |
| 2 | Yeah he must 've been following her about . |
| 3 | Then I went to the carers ' meeting [ at the day centre ] and there was somebody there from CAB and they said ‘ You should have been getting it ages ago ’ . |
| 4 | Now several mornings a week when perhaps she should have been concerning herself with the house ( she delegated more and more to the housekeeper , who after all had run everything before she , Lily , had come ) , she would go and sit with Sadie , who was expecting another child at Christmas . |
| 5 | Perhaps he should have been expecting her question . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | He was ever anxious about the weather and , when he could think of nothing else to be anxious about , he became worried that he must have forgotten something important that should have been causing him worry . |
| 8 | What had gone awry , that he should have been led to this pass , and even now he felt himself following , perforce , the twists of his fortune , headlong as a fall , when he should have been steering his own course and bearing them strongly with him ? |
| 9 | By rights Swindon Town should have been celebrating their first win of the season on Saturday … what they have to do to win heaven knows … |
| 10 | Today Mrs Wendy Rennie should have been celebrating her eldest son 's nineteenth birthday . |
| 11 | One frowning look at the table where a pint pot of tea and a plate of scones or buns should have been awaiting his arrival , sent Martha and Lydia scurrying frantically about until his needs had been met . |
| 12 | The alternator , which should have been recharging it during the flight , for some reason was n't . |
| 13 | The alternator , which should have been recharging it during the flight , for some reason was n't . |
| 14 | For this reason alone , there was no reason why individuals should have been pressing their case to be personally excluded from repatriation . |
| 15 | As leader of Germany 's opposition Social Democrats , he should have been rallying his party for battle against a tired , 11-year-old government in a general election in 1994 . |
| 16 | According to my reckoning , I should have been giving my full and entire concentration to the final chapter of my work — a time when I would not , as Milada Pankracova knew , want any interruptions . |
| 17 | All this time Mr Rayne on one side of the staircase and Mr Worseley on the other , each with half a dozen men , should have been fighting their way back to converge with his own party in the hall . |
| 18 | If you are thinking about it talking person to person remember the guy on the building site remember the woman who 's pregnant and trying to sell insurance and getting him to he should have been securing his family welfare and so on . |
| 19 | I must have been misguiding myself for a very long time Mr . |
| 20 | It must have been seeing her reading Tennyson that had dredged up an old forgotten quotation . |
| 21 | ‘ She must have been hoping they 'd ask for something she could give . |
| 22 | I must have been subsidizing you . |
| 23 | He must have been saving it for months . |
| 24 | It had been in all the national papers , but news is quickly forgotten , and at that time Willi must have been mourning his wife , trying to cope with loneliness and a small son , submerged in his own misery . |
| 25 | Gloucester started as favourites to win this one … and in a game of penalties must have been kicking themselves for not doing better … |
| 26 | Severiano Ballesteros also had a 70 for a total of 213 but he must have been kicking himself for it included a seven at the 13th . |
| 27 | But he must have been thinking something and I would have given anything to know what it was . |
| 28 | At 3:1 United were cruising again and the Manor Ground fans must have been thinking what could have been this season if there had been more games like this . |
| 29 | ‘ I must have been resting them , ’ she protested . |
| 30 | Billy must have been reading his thoughts . |