Example sentences of "[modal v] [adv] have been [prep] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | And question ten , you should have the word Preventable and words to the effect Should not have been in that position and not have assumed that the other driver was going to do what he eventually did do . |
| 2 | Hill said : ‘ I should n't have been in that position in the first place if I had not spun on the opening lap . |
| 3 | Hill said : ‘ I should n't have been in that position in the first place if I had not spun on the opening lap . |
| 4 | Andy overtook a container lorry , the kind of thing that should never have been on that road , and hit a Volvo estate car coming in the opposite direction . |
| 5 | The only problem was the London Paddington to Liverpool train did n't run from the expected start station , it started from Reading instead of from Paddington , so if you were expecting somebody on that train , well they may not have , may not have been on that one if they er were actually starting from Paddington , otherwise no problems on the buses . |
| 6 | And we might , might well have been on that train that had the crash . |
| 7 | ‘ But it could n't have been like that . |
| 8 | He 'd never have been like that in the old days . |
| 9 | It may well have been in that picture that the new type was created . |
| 10 | ( If mortality rates for the age group 20–24 could have been calculated , the nadir would probably have been in that age class ) . |
| 11 | if it 's doing so well , oh and you would n't have been on that long under a Labour Government , of course , it would 've been jobs for the boys , they 'd 've slipped you in I 'm sure . |
| 12 | That 's why I have to keep an eye on it cos that blind and that , but it wo n't come yet , it would n't have been on that , that was priced it . |
| 13 | It ca n't have been like that really , though I believe records show that the summers in the late Twenties and early Thirties were warm and dry . |