Example sentences of "[modal v] have [be] [v-ing] about " in BNC.
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| 1 | No but it must 've been talking about youngsters having cars |
| 2 | We do not buy live poultry from the local market and carry it home squawking and then wring its neck , nor do we insist that the fish we order in a restaurant should have been swimming about only moments before . |
| 3 | Well , by April 1982 , surely the Cabinet should have been thinking about it . |
| 4 | But with the Official Custodian sending back these investments , the trustees will have to think of what they should have been thinking about years ago : management of their trust funds . ’ |
| 5 | She should have been thinking about the boys ' tea , and about Frederick 's dinner . |
| 6 | When Lloyd George talked about the Empires and Kingdoms , kings and crowns of Europe falling like withered leaves , he should have been talking about the millions of ordinary people , the music and laughter and minutiae of countless lives , washed away like a child 's map drawn on a slate left out in the rain . |
| 7 | No and we 'd got three young girls , new , new girls and I saw those and I must have been thinking about Mandy and the car because they said something about oh when we leave we 're all going on a picnic to and I think it was Kettering or quite some time aw some |
| 8 | All this time I had had to try hard not to think of what my parents must have been feeling about my going away . |
| 9 | — Anyway , he must have been lying about Mr Bishop . |
| 10 | And in this last day , she must have been camping about , I do n't know how , but somehow she was traversing I she probably did n't she was using the living room as a store , I could only think that , she could n't possibly live in it . |
| 11 | He might have been talking about weekending on the moon . |
| 12 | From the way he said it , he might have been talking about Krull of Varna . |
| 13 | But they could 've been talking about something personal and we would 've heard everything they said . |
| 14 | He could have been writing about van Gogh . |
| 15 | She seemed so angry that she could have been talking about hate , or revenge , or death , rather than love . |
| 16 | He could have been talking about Ken Mentle . |
| 17 | He was speaking about Yugoslavia — but he could have been talking about the appalling scenes in Somalia or other parts of Africa . |
| 18 | Had he lived , we could have been talking about Field Marshal Bradford in World War Two . ’ |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Although doubts may have been growing about the Woodvilles ' ultimate intentions , there are no signs that anyone else was contemplating direct action against them — or that the family had yet done anything to warrant it . |
| 21 | Although doubts may have been growing about the Woodvilles ' ultimate intentions , there are no signs that anyone else was contemplating direct action against them — or that the family had yet done anything to warrant it . |
| 22 | There they would have been complaining about the weather , the European Commission 's new fishing controls and the imminence of bankruptcy . |