Example sentences of "[vb mod] [vb infin] be [v-ing] [prep] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , by April 1982 , surely the Cabinet should have been thinking about it . |
| 2 | We have worked with the Government when we should have been working against it . |
| 3 | He must have been working on it in January 1948 at the latest , since the book was sent to the printers in the second week of February . |
| 4 | th you er I mean if it were very heavy you 'd almost sort of be prepared for it to go , but you know when you 're s s standing with a , something quite light , and you might have been standing with it a little while in your hand , and then suddenly the hand goes and ca n't you see that 's ve that 's very upsetting , it makes you not very confident . |
| 5 | The word ‘ championship ’ , however , no matter how much he may have been thinking about it privately , I did not hear from him until much later in the year , when the scales began to tip in his favour . |
| 6 | But no one else would have been looking for it . |