Example sentences of "he [modal v] have [been] do " in BNC.
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| 1 | He should have been done for murder . |
| 2 | He should have been doing this a year or two ago , in the hope that extra jobs would have been created before now . |
| 3 | After only a minute of play or painting or whatever he should have been doing , he would leave his place , then snatch toys , kick children , overturn furniture and try to run out of the nursery . |
| 4 | And neighbour Violet Miller said : ‘ He must have been doing about 90 miles an hour . |
| 5 | Well he must have been doing that with the saucepan , he 's pulled all the carpet up . |
| 6 | In the days when she had first known him she had wondered idly whether she might see Rupert round here , ‘ going in ’ or ‘ coming out ’ , though she was not clear when this might be expected or even what he might have been doing . |
| 7 | He could have been done in by some thug who was after the money in his pockets . |
| 8 | ‘ I suppose he could have been done in somewhere else and then carted up there . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ I ca n't imagine what he could have been doing to get cut about like that , but it was n't falling out of a canoe , that I am sure of , ’ she finished , leaning against the low white-painted bookcase in his study . |
| 10 | He was dead to the world , so deeply asleep that she wondered what on earth he could have been doing half the night . |
| 11 | He would be in as much danger as me because if he shouted across to me , he 'd have been done for idling his time and gossiping . |
| 12 | Had he not opened his mouth , he would have been done for dumb insolence . |