Example sentences of "[pers pn] [modal v] have been doing " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I read some of the things Jack said about me , and although it is n't exactly something I re-read every night , I suppose I must have been doing something right for him to make these kind comments . |
| 2 | ‘ Then I catch up with what I should have been doing all day . |
| 3 | You did not tell me what you had been doing , or where you had been , and you were not interested in whatever I might have been doing . |
| 4 | That 's what I 'd have been doing if I had been there so you 're not so different from me Peter , so you might have , you might be different in other ways John , but I 've got that weakness as well . |
| 5 | But he maintains that boxing is not his favourite sport , saying without hesitation : ‘ If my father had had the budget for it when I was young , I would have been doing motor racing . ’ |
| 6 | You must have been doing something . " |
| 7 | Choose one of the four and try to work out what he or she must have been doing at each stage of the carnival . |
| 8 | With a mental sigh that dimmed her meanings , she turned her attention to what she should have been doing all along . |
| 9 | She should have been doing three hundred . |
| 10 | She said she occasionally felt that a job she could have been doing was being done by someone else leaving her less than fully occupied , but as her case load increased this feeling appeared to lessen . |
| 11 | You 'd have been doing that . |
| 12 | You have got to train that person which you could have been doing for years and |
| 13 | Even though in effect you 're using more of your income proportionately than you would have been doing before . |
| 14 | As we become more successful in delivering health care in the community , we discover things that we should have been doing in the past but have not done . |
| 15 | And what 's impressive is they 're doing research that we should have been doing for years ! |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | I mean , we could have been doing anything in there . ’ |
| 18 | I mean I did ask you about the outstanding bills and loans whereas if we 'd 've been doing the thing properly we 'd 've gone through that |
| 19 | There is a general passivity , a loss of good conscience — ‘ they must have been doing something very wrong there ’ ; ‘ we must have been wrong ’ ; ‘ I suppose these new ideas must be right ’ ; ‘ I suppose we have got to get used to them ’ , etcetera , etcetera . |
| 20 | Getting on with what you should be doing that can only see a few people doing that who are actually getting on with what they should have been doing while you are waiting . |
| 21 | An and he 's taking up what might , we might want to or , or what could be portrayed as restorationist as being revolutionary where I , I 'm not sure that it fully was a revolution er a and I you see what Mao is saying is that there would have been a class basis for all of this , they were doing it as a class of peasant , they might not have been , they might have been doing it just for restorationist purposes . |
| 22 | I thought — if it had been my parents who had been talking , they would have been doing it at the tops of their voices , for surely on the content alone that conversation had been a row . |
| 23 | He should have been doing this a year or two ago , in the hope that extra jobs would have been created before now . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | And neighbour Violet Miller said : ‘ He must have been doing about 90 miles an hour . |
| 26 | Well he must have been doing that with the saucepan , he 's pulled all the carpet up . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | ‘ 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 . |
| 29 | He was dead to the world , so deeply asleep that she wondered what on earth he could have been doing half the night . |