Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] be [v-ing] for [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She must have been looking for me because a few seconds later she spotted me and came over . |
| 2 | It must have been irritating for you . " |
| 3 | Barbara Coleman had said Maurin was responsible for keeping her hidden , and therefore the men who attacked Edouard could have been acting for him . |
| 4 | But no one else would have been looking for it . |
| 5 | ‘ I know Ron would have been shouting for him . |
| 6 | Apart from the health risk , it would have been disturbing for them to see the damage . |
| 7 | Apart from the health risk , it would have been disturbing for them to see the damage . |
| 8 | The irony for England was that had he decided differently he would have been playing for them rather than against them , for his parents had brought him from Barbados at the age of twelve to live in Reading , and he had played for England schoolboys . |