Example sentences of "[vb infin] [been] [v-ing] [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She must have been staying there at the weekend ! |
| 2 | At that moment Lesley-Jane saw your face — she told me you ‘ looked over your shoulder at her ’ but I did n't at the time realise that meant you must have been facing away from the stage . |
| 3 | This aspect is something that has increased in importance with the rise of inflation because there are very few cases where the deceased would not have been earning more by the date of trial than he was earning at the date of his death . |
| 4 | Millie would have been fiddling awkwardly with the thick brush of ginger hair coarser than her father 's , and even redder — that sprang away all round her face , while her cello case , which I had carried back for her , was no doubt propped up against one of the crumbling and gateless brick pillars in front of their house , like a portly little old man too out of breath to speak . |
| 5 | If she had accepted him , she could have been looking forward to a child of her own now . |
| 6 | The time and effort demanded of them may put a strain on their relationship with a partner , who may have been looking forward to the years when they could be alone again as a couple . |
| 7 | A few weeks ago she would have been looking forward to the show , but it had all fallen flat and she had to scold herself severely before she could whip up any enthusiasm at all . |
| 8 | I must have been sitting here on the edge of his bed , first singing and stroking , then just stroking , for half an hour or so . |
| 9 | And they pulled this and it must have been leading right under the doorway through the house , and they pulled it right across the roadway , still sticking under the door . |
| 10 | This , like the argument about human progress , suggests that the universe can have been going only for a finite time . |
| 11 | This confused Benny at first , until she realized that they must have been going deeper into the complex , while Froebe would have assumed she was making for the outside . |
| 12 | The Secretary of State pointed out in his last answer that on 21 February he expressed sympathy with some of the supporters of the regiments , and he said that he would have been standing outside under the same banners . |
| 13 | They seem to have happened periodically over the last 900 million years , and may have been doing so since the early days of Earth ( the longer ago something happened , the less likely it is that we will have tripped over the evidence ) . |