Example sentences of "[modal v] have been [prep] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was short and straight , which was more than could be said for her mouth , which was curvy and rather wider than it should have been for her ashen , wedge-shaped face . |
| 2 | Mrs. Bidwell , the cleaner , should have been with them twenty minutes ago . |
| 3 | The Liverpool manager should have been with his goal-starved squad when they flew to Cyprus for an important cup match tonight . |
| 4 | He should have been with you last Friday . " |
| 5 | ‘ It 's got its attractions , but you should have been in it last night . ’ |
| 6 | He must have been with them all the time from Corry , to Raasay , to Kingsburgh , to Dunvegan : ‘ a fellow quite like a savage ’ — and they were followed , ‘ as colts follow passengers upon a road ’ , by local lads , barefoot , ragged , lazy and not wholly unmenacing . |
| 7 | What a tragedy that must have been for them all . |
| 8 | If ever Joseph felt King of Spain it must have been on his triumphal progress in Andalusia . |
| 9 | Lord Justice Parker differentiated between liability of the car driver to her passenger , who must have been within her reasonable contemplation as being likely to be affected by her omission to remove her broken down car from the carriageway and any drivers who may have been proceeding in the opposite direction on the other carriageway . |
| 10 | If he was Sorrel 's father , then he must have been around his mid-forties at least , but he 'd worn well . |
| 11 | He fought Christ 's battles there for ten years — it must have been like our brave missionaries now going into the wildest and most uncivilised parts of Africa — because the pagan King Morken was his enemy and envied the fame of Kentigern . |
| 12 | ‘ The potential for what he became must have been in him all the time . ’ |
| 13 | They must have been in their twenties when the family moved from Trebyan . ’ |
| 14 | She must have been in her late thirties then , but to me she seemed timeless . |
| 15 | Quite a little cracker in her day , she must have been in her late thirties now . |
| 16 | I was also warned to stay away from the tennis court if anyone was playing , but on one Saturday , a party was in progress and Miss Betty Farr , who must have been in her early twenties , spotted me trying not to be seen , called me over and plied me with cakes and lemonade . |
| 17 | I mean she must have been in her seventies . |
| 18 | Well it must be ten years ago when he worked for the B B C and that , he must have been in his late twenties then |
| 19 | What a far cry this must have been from his younger days in the priesthood . |
| 20 | ‘ She looked comparatively young , but she might have been in her late thirties , signorina . ’ |
| 21 | If I 'd have been on me own I mean that 's all I was waiting for , mine to grow up so I could clear off . |
| 22 | If I 'd have been on me own I would n't have stopped bloody long . |
| 23 | " You do n't want me , " Edward repeated , " if you did , you 'd have been with me all this time . |
| 24 | However , complex these ideas may have been in their original conception , they were taken over by many educationalists in a simplified , stereotypic form , typified by the supposed dichotomy between ‘ elaborated ’ and ‘ restricted ’ codes . |
| 25 | He may have been in his forties and driving either a grey , silver or light metallic-coloured car . |
| 26 | I am not sure what Harold Brodkey may have been in his last incarnation , but he has now reached that most enviable of all earthly states , that of the American cult writer . |
| 27 | He was survived by his widow and seven sons and five daughters , some of whom may have been from his previous marriage . |
| 28 | It had opened the door to closer collaboration in the nuclear field , bringing substantial savings in research and development costs , and enabling Britain to retain and constantly modernize her independent nuclear deterrent in ways that otherwise would have been beyond her economic means . |
| 29 | If I had gone into labour a couple of days earlier , I would have been on my own , down the block , with no nurse , nobody . |
| 30 | He had expected that any change in his routine would have been of his own making , not hers . |