Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] [been] [v-ing] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I THINK you must have been going to small moneylenders to be quoted interest rates of this sort . |
| 2 | This way , everyone — including the other mums — has a chance to forget her bad behaviour , and you 'll break the habit of aggression that your child might have been getting into early . |
| 3 | Although the scribes no doubt made ‘ errors ’ , it should be possible to investigate variable texts in extenso to determine the extent to which variation in spelling ( or indeed in other linguistic dimensions ) is in fact orderly , and whether this variation can help us to work out what might have been happening in spoken English at the time . |
| 4 | She 'd 've been lying on Spanish beaches with her eyes tight shut knowing that every Spanish boy who passed would fancy her . |
| 5 | A State Department official said : ‘ This could have been happening in other places , too . ’ |