Example sentences of "[pron] [modal v] [verb] be [verb] this " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ THEY do n't know it , but they have killed children , ’ said Phil Green as he surveyed the charred and sodden remains of medicine , food , clothing and toys which should have been bound this month for Bosnia and Romania . |
| 2 | We are going through enormous changes in the education system at the moment and as Governors we have had to struggle terribly hard to learn how to govern schools as more power and more authority has been devolved to us , and we should have been spending this year erm working together on learning how to run a more successful school , and instead erm we 've had to waste a hell of a lot of time on really what was an absolute political nonsense and irrelevance , and I am glad we can turn aside from that . |
| 3 | I think what we 'll do is try this , which is called Doxazocin there you go , that 's an instantly forgettable name for you . |
| 4 | What I thought we might do is to explore this phenomenon a little further , just the two of us together , but making sure we take things very carefully all the time . ’ |
| 5 | We would have been spared this ! ’ |
| 6 | He should have been doing this a year or two ago , in the hope that extra jobs would have been created before now . |
| 7 | It might have been brewed this year , but I doubted it . |
| 8 | I had a fleeting thought of what fun it would have been to do this trip with Rosemary . |
| 9 | The Review Panel would have had to try to persuade the court that complying with FRED 1 failed to give a true and fair view , and it would have been presenting this argument at the same time that companies generally were being compelled to comply with FRS 3 ( a not fundamentally revised version of FRED 1 ) in order to give a true and fair view . |
| 10 | Let's hope he or she cares about you enough to say , ‘ You know you should have called me earlier-you must have been holding this in for days ! ’ |