Example sentences of "[pron] [vb mod] have been [verb] that " in BNC.

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1 The death of Matthew Makepeace , the man who should have been lecturing that afternoon , ‘ one of the most promising scholars of his generation ’ , the old Professor used to tell us , was ‘ an inestimable loss to the department and the university as a whole ’ .
2 Straightforward conversation wife to wife , well again she must have been told that by her husband to even mention it .
3 You 'd have been doing that .
4 But erm I mean th th the debate yesterday was , was as , as budget issues always are I mean when you 're talking about budget no matter , even in boom years you 're always still talking oh we have n't got enough money erm but it was positive in the sense that it was A we 're coming off the back of some good performance , and that 's important to remember , and all I 'm saying is there 's no reason why we should n't be able to maintain our performance , even if we ca n't improve it in the next two or three months erm from , to where we actually think we should have been given that the systems come in last year .
5 Institute Council member Douglas Llambias said the fine ‘ was out of all proportion to a guilty verdict ’ , and added that if the fines were capped , ‘ we should have been publicising that for the last 12 months .
6 Well he must have been doing that with the saucepan , he 's pulled all the carpet up .
7 It must have been discouraging that Adieu was not thought worthy to be given at Sadler 's Wells , and that the more handsome setting which Stevenson had designed for it was not used at that time .
8 It was so fresh that it must have been baked that morning at Ksabi .
9 In these circumstances it might have been expected that town planning would be guaranteed a fair wind for many years while the consensus survived .
10 Similarly , it might have been expected that " space station " would score even higher than 87% .
11 ' … which he thought he might have been wearing that afternoon and then changed his mind and said he had n't , ’ continued Harris , unperturbed by the interruption .
12 ‘ Another smile like the one you were giving him and he would have been fastening that ribbon himself .
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