Example sentences of "[vb mod] have be [v-ing] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She should have been sharing breakfast with Kelly right now , laughing and chatting , catching up on all that had been happening over the past few months . |
| 2 | Second , they should have been using heroin regularly for a period of at least two years . |
| 3 | This was the first time I had seen him surf in the flesh , but for an entire month I had contemplated him pulling fearlessly into a vicious Pipeline tube when I should have been writing lectures . |
| 4 | We should have been holding hands , post-morteming the party . |
| 5 | They should have been chasing Steve Jones . |
| 6 | For everything that we 've done there , all the way through , I should have been saying logs . |
| 7 | ‘ I 'm not being critical of our unions , but there should have been marketing people approaching the corporates even during the World Cup ’ , he says . |
| 8 | This entailed an eighty-mile drive in all , at a time when I should have been making sandwiches for the post-funeral bun-fight . |
| 9 | But I think that if it had been , the horses should have been showing distress by last night , which they were n't . |
| 10 | Instead of considering only the recommendations in the sub-committee 's report and deciding on that , the counties should have been assessing E.W. 's articles and trying to find arguments to put against them . |
| 11 | When the Lions should have been exerting control from a position of 31–3 ahead with 28 minutes left , it was Southland who did the scoring and the Lions ' only score in that final period was a drop goal from Tony Clement . |
| 12 | It is enough that there should have been growing pockets of households within the income range £50 to £200 a year , sufficient to have amounted to around 15 per cent of the population in 1750 and 20 to 25 per cent by 1780 . |
| 13 | We should have been putting money by for a rainy day because that rainy day came . |
| 14 | This presumably posed a risk to airline uniforms ; was likely to distract passengers ( the male ones at any rate ) at a time when they should have been paying attention to the cabin staff for rather different reasons ; and carried the ultimate danger of the implant exploding . |
| 15 | I suppose I should have been paying attention to the old artist , when he was telling me that the thing had to be carried in near-vacuum with traces of helium and neon but definitely no oxygen , which would destroy it . |
| 16 | We should have been running south ! ’ |
| 17 | ‘ You must have been collecting antiques quite a while . ’ |
| 18 | I had only just noticed her — so I must have been taking things seriously — but she was worth waiting to be polite to . |
| 19 | The fact that after the Great War the Liberal party went into decline and the Labour party emerged as a governmental party seemed to indicate that the most interesting developments must have been taking place on the left of British politics , even before the war . |
| 20 | ‘ They must have been meeting places for The Hell Fire Club he discovered . ’ |
| 21 | Thus he must have been singing falsetto in this role . |
| 22 | I can remember Leslie coming home , I think I must have been expecting Doreen at the time , that was in , that was early early on , nineteen , well that was nineteen sixty three , and he was , he had heard that had I had been in the Gatehouse Drama Club , and er he said , Would I be interested in com in coming to the Drama in if they started ? |
| 23 | You must have been expecting trouble . ’ |
| 24 | You must have been imagining things . |
| 25 | I knew that Vecchi 's reason for shooting Mahoney was something that must have been worrying Mr. Bonanza . |
| 26 | Their structure was by no means on a sound footing by the 1560 's however , and heeding what must have been glowing reports from England , and having seen for themselves good samples of the ore , they were probably quite eager to invest in the English adventure . |
| 27 | ‘ Oh , they must have been selling flowers for ages , Luke . |
| 28 | ‘ Your imagination must have been playing tricks . ’ |
| 29 | Stuart said the girl must have been leading Oliver on and being provocative , I said she was probably shy and terrified by these advances from her teacher , until we both realised neither of us had set eyes on the girl or knew what had happened . |
| 30 | Anyway , we kept blowing in , and we must have been doing mouth to mouth for about eighteen er about a mi a minute and a half . |