Example sentences of "[vb mod] have been [v-ing] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Her voice very nearly cracked at the thought that Fen might have been making love to his girlfriend only feet away from where she , Robbie , lay . |
| 5 | The West , the Atlantic world , may have been firing rockets to the moon and fighting a war in Indochina , but the benefit of hindsight indicates now that in other ways it was gripped by a blinkered and introspective mood , absorbed by its own internal problems . |
| 6 | He would have been supplying booze to restaurants and nightclubs . |