Example sentences of "[modal v] [vb infin] be [v-ing] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The irony is that I did n't realise till Christmas , when I knew I loved you , that it was someone like you I should have been looking for all these years since . ’ |
| 2 | Edward Nundy , 55 , of Southend , Essex , was allegedly seen at his boat when he should have been working for Car Buyer magazine . |
| 3 | And what 's impressive is they 're doing research that we should have been doing for years ! |
| 4 | She must have been looking for me because a few seconds later she spotted me and came over . |
| 5 | He must have been looking for the keys . |
| 6 | Master Thomas said they must have been looking for people , not things , and thought you should be warned , so … ’ |
| 7 | He must have been looking for bathroom . |
| 8 | Must have been looking for a house . |
| 9 | Sir Patrick Mayhew must have been hoping for some winners and losers , as he considers how to kick-start his talks process . |
| 10 | If it was n't exactly political pessimism of the order of ‘ mourir pour Danzig ’ it must have been alarming for Americans to hear from High Commissioner Pignon 's diplomatic adviser of the feeling that French interests were not important enough to die for because the country was being given over to the Vietnamese and when the war was over French influence would have disappeared . |
| 11 | It must have been irritating for you . " |
| 12 | He must have been gouging for half an hour when an idea seemed to strike him . |
| 13 | They must have been riding for a long time , but there was no sign of a large town , only a solitary light shining ahead . |
| 14 | They must have been singing for , though Sharpe could hear nothing , he could see their mouths opening and closing in unison . |
| 15 | I thought she must have been waiting for someone … ’ |
| 16 | She must have been waiting for some time . |
| 17 | Grant got the impression that Larsen must have been waiting for his signal , like a sprinter crouched in his blocks waiting for the starter 's gun to launch him into motion . |
| 18 | I must have been walking for nearly an hour , he thought . |
| 19 | She must have been going for the six o'clock train , and she was probably in a dickens of a rush when … ’ |
| 20 | she was nearly retiring by the , no still the girls go to her at the school so she must have been going for , two or three years after we came up here , but I would be in the choir just , maybe two or three years . |
| 21 | ‘ He must have been driving for hours . ’ |
| 22 | His stillness made them hesitate ; he might have been watching for fish but the stream was hardly large enough for trout , only minnows or sticklebacks Libby pressed close to George , they stayed on the path watching . |
| 23 | You might have been driving for years by going over the top of the wheel as a lot of lorry drivers do . |
| 24 | He might have been waiting for someone . |
| 25 | Erm the issue is is that potentially you could be goi we could 've been going for four point three extra people and we probably wo n't do that . |
| 26 | It could have been leaking for months . |
| 27 | Brian Inglis , a writer on the paranormal , said the spoof could have been damaging for those who had had ghostly experiences . |
| 28 | Barbara Coleman had said Maurin was responsible for keeping her hidden , and therefore the men who attacked Edouard could have been acting for him . |
| 29 | ‘ What do you think they could have been looking for — the people who ransacked her cottage ? ’ |
| 30 | The only difference is that I suppose er at we have er which is development in North Stockton , we have er erm permission for four hundred erm executive dwellings which is the sort of er market which you could have been looking for at in the past . |