Example sentences of "[modal v] have been at [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | The three boys should have been at school with their ragged clothes , crew cuts and sullen eyes . |
| 2 | well if I 'd known enough company she said , I 'd have been at home with me feet up |
| 3 | The complete absence of information makes it very difficult to uncover the processes of change which may have been at work among the peoples north and south of the Trent during the reign of Eadwine , but it is inconceivable that Eadwine was able to extend his hegemony southwards without first achieving domination of the Mercians . |
| 4 | Monica 's number one ranking would have been at stake at Wimbledon . |
| 5 | Across the broad , still water of the moat stood at least a dozen mounted soldiers , more than enough to overcome the serfs , since most of them would have been at work in the fields . |
| 6 | He would have been at home as a sixteenth-century Elizabethan , categorizing people according to their essential natures ; choleric , melancholic , mercurial , saturnine , qualities mirroring the planets that governed their birth . |
| 7 | It would have been at home in Bournemouth or Scarborough or any one of a dozen British seaside resorts , Christina thought . |
| 8 | If the plaintiffs had refused to pay the illegal fees for a permit to run their vehicles they would have been at risk of having their vehicles seized and their business disrupted . |
| 9 | If they acquired these infections from HIV negative partners , those partners will have been at risk of HIV infection . |