Example sentences of "[vb mod] have been [v-ing] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | My whole thinking , every waking moment should have been concentrating on the 100 metres in which I was still convinced , despite losing to Carl in Madrid earlier in the season , that I could take the gold medal . |
| 2 | ‘ Well , you should have been concentrating on what you were saying . |
| 3 | ‘ They should have been waiting on Victoria station , checking each train that came in . ’ |
| 4 | So why the population should have been growing on this scale I think is er a question that we ca n't answer very easily . |
| 5 | ‘ What a lovely thing to do , ’ he remarked and , appalled at his patronising tone , told her that her ears should have been burning on Christmas Day . |
| 6 | He had thought they were at least speaking to one another privately , but if Jim had really sworn an affidavit he must have been listening on another telephone . |
| 7 | If someone had valuables hidden in the hypocaust , he must have been waiting on thorns for the chance to get his hoard away , and baulked all day by staff and visitors wandering around . |
| 8 | I think he must have been putting on all that business with his ankle , just to gain sympathy . ’ |
| 9 | Because Edith now Edith was going away for some unknown reason , I do n't know , she must have been going on another holiday anyhow . |
| 10 | It was held that since the buyer knew much more about Persia than the seller , he must have been relying on his own judgment as to whether the tractors were suitable for the Persian market . |
| 11 | ‘ The assassin must have been lying on the ground or Father standing on some steps ? |
| 12 | It must have been playing on her mind . |
| 13 | He must have been working on the paper about the same time as he was writing the papers of Totem and Taboo , or just afterwards . |
| 14 | He must have been working on it in January 1948 at the latest , since the book was sent to the printers in the second week of February . |
| 15 | There was no law , strictly speaking , against experimenting , although considering the stage which Alexei 's trials had reached , it was clear that he must have been working on this for some time . |
| 16 | ‘ So you could n't go as far as saying who it might have been calling on the Rector at that late hour ? ’ |
| 17 | She 'd 've been lying on Spanish beaches with her eyes tight shut knowing that every Spanish boy who passed would fancy her . |
| 18 | He could have been walking on another planet The flat , moonlight illuminated landscape , interrupted by large and small pools of bright water seemed unreal . |
| 19 | Had the operator of the giant video screen been allowed to go on merrily replaying the more explosive moments , there could have been rioting on the terraces , where already the stewards had their work cut out . |
| 20 | ‘ From the position of the body I think he could have been sitting on the edge of the bed . |
| 21 | Villagers could have been sitting on a chemical poison with untold consequences to health . |
| 22 | you 'd have been relying on to come and and collect you Newcastle yesterday , and he ai n't got a car . |
| 23 | Additionally , the fact that this part of the movement was written out by Leopold suggests that Mozart may have been working on another part of the symphony while his father was copying the part that already existed . |
| 24 | A separate report indicated that Iran may have been working on the development of such a weapon on and off for a good decade . |
| 25 | Later at the inquest ( which he did n't attend ) , he admitted through his lawyer that he may have been driving on the wrong side of the road . |
| 26 | Right , this is my er the original beret but this is a beret that every single officer would have been wearing on his head and then er in relation to the actual uniform that the officer would be wearing er we wear jumpsuits . |
| 27 | An independent manager would have been fighting on behalf of his artist for just such a concession ; but for a manager who owned the record company , that meant arguing against himself . |
| 28 | ‘ I thought the big National Hunt boys would have been banging on our door , ’ he admitted . |
| 29 | If I ca n't get to the person they want I try and say to them , ‘ Look , can you please ring back ’ , because if they left a message , that message would have been lying on my desk until the next morning , until I get round to actually phoning that person internally , saying this person rang . |
| 30 | She felt as though , had she been a dog , all her hair would have been standing on end . |