Example sentences of "[vb mod] have been [v-ing] his " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ? |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Billy must have been reading his thoughts . |
| 7 | " He must have been splitting His sides when He put the idea into the marquis 's head to leave me here . |
| 8 | And within two minutes of this Group One clash , Goram must have been wishing his accreditation had n't come through . |
| 9 | He 'll have been sending his money out there for years , all ready and waiting for him to arrive . ’ |
| 10 | He might have been taking his temperature . |
| 11 | He could have been warning his receptionist off the line or switching off — or on — a recording device . |
| 12 | ‘ Well , he could have been defending his own , ’ Theodora said . |
| 13 | Ellis denied he was a ‘ pimp ’ and had no idea the youngster may have been using his premises for her work . |
| 14 | I I was aware , when P C was saying it was a slight contradiction , all I can suggest sir is that er whilst I was putting the door in P C would have been controlling his troops |
| 15 | That I did n't tell Richard , was partly for Sophie 's sake — to say she had become interested in politics would have been stretching his credulity too far — but also for my own . |
| 16 | Gray ought to have been cancelling his youth club , which he usually held on a Thursday evening . |