Example sentences of "[pers pn] [modal v] [verb] [be] [verb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I suppose I should have been paying attention to the old artist , when he was telling me that the thing had to be carried in near-vacuum with traces of helium and neon but definitely no oxygen , which would destroy it . |
| 2 | All I could manage was to haunt Rocamar like a beast with no heart . ’ |
| 3 | I 've been quite frightened by what is happening in many areas of conservation and environment problems , and I decided that the best , one of the best , courses that I could take was to incorporate conservation in my work . |
| 4 | Mick added : ‘ I was pretty proud , but if I 'd cooked it , I 'd have been eating pumpkin pie all year . ’ |
| 5 | What I used to do was to get hold of them behind their hand . |
| 6 | While I was in a single room , what I used to do was get hold of sani towels and put my dog ends in and let them smoulder and wave them out the hatch . |
| 7 | ‘ Well , after my travails upon this sad world are done , the last thing I would want is to view eternity from the inside of a bottle . ’ |
| 8 | you know , you just want to sit back and er as far as I would think is to keep calm and say well I , I am right , you know , erm but without being too forceful in that way because then that would put them off |
| 9 | 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 . ’ |
| 10 | If there were bouncers on mountains I would have been refused entry to the crags on more occasions than I care to recall . |
| 11 | Other than that the only advice I can give is to get hold of the Torygraph , from Wednesday 5th . |
| 12 | The 24-hour gap between her last sighting and her murder suggests she may have been held prisoner before being killed . |
| 13 | You must have been expecting trouble . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ Yet you must have been keeping watch on the house — why ? ’ |
| 15 | One thing that you should avoid is to give toy horns out at tea and then find the poor entertainer is facing a barrage of noise . |
| 16 | She should have been sharing breakfast with Kelly right now , laughing and chatting , catching up on all that had been happening over the past few months . |
| 17 | She 'd have been given help by the Lord Chancellor 's Department , and her costs would have been minimal . |
| 18 | She would have been considered trash , the lowest of the low , if one had dared to enter ’ |
| 19 | Not everyone is going to be interested — if you 're a bank , the most you can do is recycle paper . ’ |
| 20 | Another investigation you can try is to destroy part of a web and then watch the spider repair it . |
| 21 | We should have been putting money by for a rainy day because that rainy day came . |
| 22 | We should have been running south ! ’ |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | say ca n't recall , we would have been recommending contingency fund |
| 25 | The final measure of interest rate that we will consider is called dispersion . |
| 26 | They must have been unpacking Rice Crispies . |
| 27 | Second , they should have been using heroin regularly for a period of at least two years . |
| 28 | This presumably posed a risk to airline uniforms ; was likely to distract passengers ( the male ones at any rate ) at a time when they should have been paying attention to the cabin staff for rather different reasons ; and carried the ultimate danger of the implant exploding . |
| 29 | They might have been playing chess . |
| 30 | They only thing they could do was to go walk up to walk up a road to and contact the Evie bus but it did n't come down along for years and years . |