Example sentences of "it [vb mod] have been [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Police think whoever did it may have been searching for a non existant stache of money . |
| 2 | ‘ I wo n't deny that , Mrs Wilson , but there was a period , just before she disappeared … well , I say just before she disappeared but it may have been going on for years , I do n't know … there was a period when she was very unhappy , very unhappy indeed . ’ |
| 3 | Cureton 's entry opens with a detailed and well-referenced history of stylistics , but suggests that it may have been suffering from a loss of confidence in the recent past . |
| 4 | But , below the surface , it may have been defeating her , just the same . |
| 5 | It may have brought much comfort ( or much discomfort ! ) , it may have been continuing or a once only meeting but nevertheless was important in that another Christian was alongside to listen and share in such a way that you travelled on encouraged . |
| 6 | But in the old liberated areas like say around i i i in theory none of this should be necessary , very little of it should 've been happening . |
| 7 | He turned to the wall where it should have been hanging but there was only an empty bracket . |
| 8 | It should have been raining , thundering , hailing . |
| 9 | No but it must 've been talking about youngsters having cars |
| 10 | It must have been chasing a squirrel or something and fell into the hollow and could not get out again . ’ |
| 11 | It must have been seeing her reading Tennyson that had dredged up an old forgotten quotation . |
| 12 | If it was n't exactly political pessimism of the order of ‘ mourir pour Danzig ’ it must have been alarming for Americans to hear from High Commissioner Pignon 's diplomatic adviser of the feeling that French interests were not important enough to die for because the country was being given over to the Vietnamese and when the war was over French influence would have disappeared . |
| 13 | ‘ It must have been terrifying . |
| 14 | It must have been irritating for you . " |
| 15 | ‘ Whoever did it must have been aiming at her head but thankfully they missed . |
| 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 | Historians of the conservative tendency , in rejecting the claims of the leading historians of the popular reform movement , seem to be suggesting that it must have been over-reacting . |
| 18 | ‘ It must have been getting light at about seven o'clock . |
| 19 | ‘ Well , it must have been raining miserably when they went through here . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ Is it really worth going somewhere else ? ’ she asked a trifly wistfully , filling her lungs with cool fresh air and realising for the first time that the pavements were damp and it must have been raining . |
| 21 | ‘ It must have been bothering you for a few days . ’ |
| 22 | Well , it was n't so funny for Arnold Palmer : it must have been blowing over forty miles-per-hour , and we 're playing with Roberto de Vicenzo and Max Faulkner in the afternoon . |
| 23 | When it touched Parker it had evidently acquired a tremendous spin , and for a second it must have been spinning beneath me . |
| 24 | And they pulled this and it must have been leading right under the doorway through the house , and they pulled it right across the roadway , still sticking under the door . |
| 25 | ‘ It must have been lying in the ferns and took fright when I came along . ’ |
| 26 | I can not know how she feels about that experience , but I think it must have been reassuring rather than distressing . |
| 27 | If the ship was locked on to us , it must have been following us from Vadinamia . |
| 28 | It must have been playing on her mind . |
| 29 | Well it must have been hurting you to make you do that . |
| 30 | ‘ I think it must have been coming from the cold of the church into the warmth , or , perhaps — ’ and she made a wan attempt at humour — ‘ it might have been the thought of attending the ladies ’ sewing circle which overcame me ! ’ |