Example sentences of "[modal v] [vb infin] been [verb] [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | This entailed an eighty-mile drive in all , at a time when I should have been making sandwiches for the post-funeral bun-fight . |
| 2 | ‘ They must have been meeting places for The Hell Fire Club he discovered . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Oh , they must have been selling flowers for ages , Luke . |
| 4 | He could have been composing rubbish for all I was competent to judge , yet that possibility did not enter my head . |
| 5 | A prostitute who was murdered and dumped in a canal may have been kept prisoner for twenty-four hours before she was killed . |
| 6 | The effect of this would have been to transfer responsibility for venue decisions from the magistrates to the prosecution , while preserving the defendant 's right to opt for jury trial . |
| 7 | Some readers will have been growing roses for years , others may be starting for the first time from scratch , with no preconceived ideas , pattern or convention to adhere to , and a great many more will be at every stage in between . |