Example sentences of "[noun] [vb mod] [verb] [been] [v-ing] about " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although doubts may have been growing about the Woodvilles ' ultimate intentions , there are no signs that anyone else was contemplating direct action against them — or that the family had yet done anything to warrant it . |
| 2 | Although doubts may have been growing about the Woodvilles ' ultimate intentions , there are no signs that anyone else was contemplating direct action against them — or that the family had yet done anything to warrant it . |
| 3 | All this time I had had to try hard not to think of what my parents must have been feeling about my going away . |
| 4 | Well , by April 1982 , surely the Cabinet should have been thinking about it . |
| 5 | We do not buy live poultry from the local market and carry it home squawking and then wring its neck , nor do we insist that the fish we order in a restaurant should have been swimming about only moments before . |