Example sentences of "[vb mod] [vb infin] [be] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 Purists might argue he should 've been out in the colds using his sketchbook , instead of a camera , but he disagrees .
2 I must 've been out at the wrong time .
3 I should have been back at the office .
4 Quakers resorted to long balls , giving Nick Cusack several half chances , but they should have been back in the game after 72 minutes when David Cork jinked round his marker , Martin James , in the six yard box , and was then hauled down .
5 ‘ You must have been up with the famous Ord Gaunt ? ’ says the man whose name Howard did n't quite catch , and the dense Middle English blackletter in which the words are uttered exactly matches their resonant profundity .
6 Since I 've understood what management was about — I suppose that must have been back in the early 1950s — I 've had the philosophy that if I go into a job I must do it better than the bloke who 's been doing it before me .
7 Reuben Boll must have been down to the Canaries or Tenerife .
8 That must have been down to the policeman .
9 Robert might have been up in the house .
10 ‘ She might have been down at the jetty a couple of hours ago .
11 Had she accepted , he might have been back at The priory now , with her as his bride .
12 And he could have been back in the locker room even quicker had he served out for the match when he led 5–2 in the second set .
13 I may have been out of the arena for a while , but I daresay there are still some who remember the old gladiator . ’
14 I suspect , though , there can be no doubt about which side she would have been on in the public debate about fox-hunting prompted by last week 's Private Member 's Bill .
15 If he had , my furniture would have been out on the street by now and Springsteen and I would have been queuing down the night shelter .
16 Well I know I know is the only one that realised I would 've been more shocked if had yeah I would have been out on the pavement here whistling with a banjo whistling Dixie there you are that one no not yet no .
17 If Senna had not either won the race or finished second , he would have been out of the championship .
18 If he had been in charge , we would have been out of the Community , because that was the basis of his election campaign .
19 And whereas it might be argued that Granada would have kept a strong news operation in Newcastle , control would have been out of the hands of the region .
20 It would have been down to the Academy to appoint the next ruler of the Seven Planets .
21 He has to keep these kids in the team because there 's nothing better to replace them — yet even five years ago Jamie Redknapp and Don Hutchison would have been back in the reserves , getting the time they need .
22 This is because all the variation margin payments due will have been up to the penultimate trading day .
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