Example sentences of "[vb mod] have been [v-ing] with " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fishing , the slides of Tenerife were all irrelevant ; he should have been dealing with Steen . |
| 2 | ‘ In that case , tell me what you were doing modelling shorts when you should have been rehearsing with the wedding dress you 're to wear at the show . ’ |
| 3 | The entire college must have been humming with gossip and speculation . |
| 4 | th you er I mean if it were very heavy you 'd almost sort of be prepared for it to go , but you know when you 're s s standing with a , something quite light , and you might have been standing with it a little while in your hand , and then suddenly the hand goes and ca n't you see that 's ve that 's very upsetting , it makes you not very confident . |
| 5 | ‘ No one … ’ began Sally-Anne passionately , thinking of all that she had seen since arriving in Vetch Street — the poor creatures in Dr Neil 's surgery , and the even poorer ones who could not afford to go there — and of Dr Neil 's own selflessness letting people off their bills , so that only the small income he still received from an aunt 's legacy allowed him to keep going at all , when he could have been revelling with Stair . |
| 6 | He 'd have been undertaking with this man . |
| 7 | I suppose in the old days , if we 'd been like you , she 'd have been living with us as a matter of course . ’ |
| 8 | I think it would have been the Zetland , and — who knows — Mrs Field may have been riding with them that day . |
| 9 | Since Alice had long since been betrothed to Richard the studied vagueness of the phrase " to whichever of his sons married her " suggests that Henry may have been toying with the idea of marrying her not to Richard but to John . |
| 10 | They may have been suffering with anything from stress-related migraines to pre-menstrual tension . |
| 11 | I knew that when at last I was demobilised from the Waaf I would have to return to my peacetime occupation as a secretary in London , for the simple reason that my employers had been paying me my full salary all the time I had been in the Forces , that is , making up the difference between my Waaf pay and what I would have been earning with them . |
| 12 | Normally Paul would have been circulating with the best of them , oiling the wheels . |
| 13 | But nor does it matter ; ‘ our club ’ will have been seething with talk for days , and ‘ I ’ am bound to have heard about Stavrogin 's escapade . |