Example sentences of "[vb mod] have been [v-ing] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We should have been taking French or English , or something . |
| 2 | By this stage Labour should have been riding high . |
| 3 | By now the coroner should have been singing some lewd song at the top of his voice , bellowing abuse at the landlord , or urging Athelstan to come back to his house in Cheapside . |
| 4 | Perhaps they should have been using better cutlery , thought Robert , or calling Hasan ‘ sir ’ and making sure he had the best chair . |
| 5 | But for the alteration in taxation in the Budget and also the minor alterations in projected expenditure which preceded it , we should have been facing 1968/69 with the identical prospect of a further creation of additional purchasing power . |
| 6 | Institute Council member Douglas Llambias said the fine ‘ was out of all proportion to a guilty verdict ’ , and added that if the fines were capped , ‘ we should have been publicising that for the last 12 months . |
| 7 | Their bungalow at Llandudno Junction , which they had spent two years struggling to furnish and which wedding guests should have been visiting next Saturday , was swamped by flood waters on Thursday night . |
| 8 | The Arsenal boss should have been feeling pleased after his side salvaged a late point . |
| 9 | She should have been feeling relaxed , but too many thoughts still crowded in on her , and there were no solutions to any of them . |
| 10 | ‘ Then I catch up with what I should have been doing all day . |
| 11 | She should have been doing three hundred . |
| 12 | He should have been doing this a year or two ago , in the hope that extra jobs would have been created before now . |
| 13 | The death of Matthew Makepeace , the man who should have been lecturing that afternoon , ‘ one of the most promising scholars of his generation ’ , the old Professor used to tell us , was ‘ an inestimable loss to the department and the university as a whole ’ . |
| 14 | When I lived right on the job it used to drive my wife round the bend — I 'd be at home on a weekend , perhaps in the garden , and I 'd think about something in the greenhouse across the road so I 'd go over there and disappear for an hour whereas perhaps I should have been giving more time to my family . |
| 15 | We are going through enormous changes in the education system at the moment and as Governors we have had to struggle terribly hard to learn how to govern schools as more power and more authority has been devolved to us , and we should have been spending this year erm working together on learning how to run a more successful school , and instead erm we 've had to waste a hell of a lot of time on really what was an absolute political nonsense and irrelevance , and I am glad we can turn aside from that . |
| 16 | It must have been discouraging that Adieu was not thought worthy to be given at Sadler 's Wells , and that the more handsome setting which Stevenson had designed for it was not used at that time . |
| 17 | At this period the players must have been getting sick of the sight of each other , for just another few months and England were playing their first one-day games in the West Indies . |
| 18 | ‘ It must have been getting light at about seven o'clock . |
| 19 | He concluded that she must have been reading modern novels . ) |
| 20 | So she must have been wearing some funny shoes to get corns on |
| 21 | Must have been raining last night . |
| 22 | Let's hope he or she cares about you enough to say , ‘ You know you should have called me earlier-you must have been holding this in for days ! ’ |
| 23 | She must have been straining all day . |
| 24 | He must have been causing some problems . |
| 25 | The suddenness of the increased use of artillery in the third quarter of the fourteenth century is evidenced by the fact that when Gaston Fébus , vicomte of Béarn in the Pyrenees , had a network of fortifications constructed between 1365 and 1380 ( a period during which many castles were built in France ) he must have been building some of the last fortifications to take no account of artillery , which was very soon to compel important developments in the art of defence . |
| 26 | Agnes said the words to herself , her mind telling her that this was the end of June and her sister must have been carrying this dreadful secret since … when ? |
| 27 | ‘ I must have been feeling manic depressive when I had this done . |
| 28 | Alex 's strange position in the production must have been making all of the usual understudy agonies even worse . |
| 29 | The humans must have been having similar thoughts , if humans had thoughts . |
| 30 | they must have been putting two thousand in you know |