Example sentences of "[modal v] have been [v-ing] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Davies arrived home at the time he should have been competing in the Olympics . |
| 2 | HMS Reading should have been coming in the other direction . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | On his return Geoffrey should have been waiting in the wings to assist him into his pirate coat — the hook attached to the sleeve rendered it cumbersome . |
| 5 | The third time she saw it Allen was with her but he must have been looking in the wrong place , for he did n't see it although she did n't understand how that could be . |
| 6 | But , fully clothed , he must have been reading in the sitting-room — or maybe he had just come in — when he too had heard the sound of a car crash . |
| 7 | The mercantile agent in disposing of the goods must have been acting in the ordinary course of business of a mercantile agent . |
| 8 | He must have been hiding in the back room behind the stage all the time . |
| 9 | Members must have been trading in the UK for at least two years and must disclose their turnover and profits — lack of profits are not a bar to membership however , he added , because ‘ we would hate to disallow the big international business machine companies ’ . |
| 10 | He must have been lurking in the church hall , though I could n't see him properly in that dark corner . |
| 11 | ‘ It must have been lying in the ferns and took fright when I came along . ’ |
| 12 | But other accounts of Summerchild 's death must have been appearing in the newspapers somewhere , because a little further on there is another cutting from The Times . |
| 13 | And there 's Master Tristram pretending he 's not listening to his father , who might 've been sitting in the Fowey stocks by now if it was n't for that same father 's efforts . " |
| 14 | It is true that the two eldest sons , William 19 or 20 , and Thomas 16 or 17 , might have been working in the mine as subsidiary members of a gang and are unrecorded in accounts . |
| 15 | It was so wet and cold that they might have been walking in the sea , but she did not seem to notice . |
| 16 | It is a picture of the 1888 regatta , but the yachts could have been sailing in the Bay in the 30s . |
| 17 | I felt a strong feeling of nausea as I realised that I had put my hand through the chest of a dead British soldier that could have been lying in the ditch for several days . |
| 18 | All these species are common migrants which appear in Shetland every year , and I could n't help wondering if any of those we were hearing and seeing may have been feeding in the bushes in my garden a short time before … |
| 19 | This suggests , once again , that comprehension experiments may have been looking in the wrong place for evidence of young children 's linguistic competence . |
| 20 | Lord Justice Parker differentiated between liability of the car driver to her passenger , who must have been within her reasonable contemplation as being likely to be affected by her omission to remove her broken down car from the carriageway and any drivers who may have been proceeding in the opposite direction on the other carriageway . |
| 21 | Had there ever been a possibility that she may have been following in the footsteps of Linda Rooke and , ahem , disrobing ? |