Example sentences of "[vb mod] have been [prep] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We should have been on TV after all . |
| 2 | In the forty third minute , Foyle volleyed wide from fifteen yards when really he should have been on target after receiving from Magilton , and as referee Taylor was looking at his whistle to blow it for half time , United skipper , Steve Foster drove forward from the edge of the penalty area , shrugged off a couple of challenges , hit a good low shot , seemingly under the body of Gosney , but Gosney 's body just halted the flow of the ball . |
| 3 | The three boys should have been at school with their ragged clothes , crew cuts and sullen eyes . |
| 4 | But I could n't tell my mother or father because I should have been in bed by that time . |
| 5 | A tail-steady , which should have been in place under a hard point before work started , was about 6″ out of position . |
| 6 | We have seen what a struggle it must have been for men in the late 18th century to keep body and soul together — how much worse , then , for their womenfolk . |
| 7 | Do you not agree that if God ever did say Let there be light he must have been over Norfolk at the time ? ’ |
| 8 | She had forgotten how fast he could move — he must have been off Chalon in seconds — but as soon as he hauled her to her feet Isabel began to struggle , swinging her free arm up . |
| 9 | It must have been within inches of the goal because when Swift collected the deflection , he was running along his own goal-line for dear life . |
| 10 | ‘ It must have been like Hell in here , ’ said Jimmy . |
| 11 | When they finally moved out their successors found the floor covered with six layers of linoleum — the bottom ones must have been in position for many a long year ! |
| 12 | The seller must have been in possession of the goods or documents of title . |
| 13 | Some fairy must have been in love with your father . |
| 14 | Improbable as it was , he must have been in love with her . |
| 15 | She must have been in love with Ven even then without knowing it . |
| 16 | He must have been in town after all . |
| 17 | Though one might think that all those who left must have been in agreement with the National Socialist ideology , there appear to have been artists of all persuasions who remained members . |
| 18 | Alternatively , you must have been in charge of a yacht for at least a week , perhaps on Villa-Flotilla . |
| 19 | ‘ The doctor must have been in league with Nigel , ’ Jacqui insisted truculently . |
| 20 | Many of the floral designs for this china , whether taken from prints or fresh exotic blooms , were obtained from the nearby Physic Garden and Philip Miller must have been in touch with the factory . |
| 21 | To belong , a dealer must have been in business for three years and have a proven reputation for expertise . |
| 22 | We thought Jean might have been with Garry in the fire but there is no evidence to suggest that she is there now . ’ |
| 23 | Had the system been accepted the first commercial power satellite might have been in operation by 2010 . |
| 24 | If I 'd come when you first asked me , I might have been in Saracen for an entire month : I 'd probably have no job to come back to . ’ |
| 25 | I might have been in bed with measles when I went to school , but nothing else . ’ |
| 26 | The thought did come to his mind a week or so later that she might have been in love with him , but it seemed a ludicrous idea as well as self-congratulatory , and he put it by . |
| 27 | From this point on he might have been in Oz for all he knew . |
| 28 | The beneficiarii might have been in charge of its annual assessment according to the quantity of the harvest , its collection and safe storage at some central point and its distribution to wherever it was needed . |
| 29 | The officers , whether beneficiarii , stratores or regionarii , might have been in charge of , and therefore accommodated in , the mansio , if one existed , though it has been argued that a beneficiarius , usually only a legionary , was too junior in status to have charge of such an important building . |
| 30 | That investigation had been initiated under rule 7.9(1) ( b ) of the Rules on the direction of the Chief Executive to the chief enforcement officer in the light of evidence that had come to Lautro 's attention suggesting that Norwich Union might have been in breach of various of the rules in failing adequately to monitor the business and operations of the Winchester Group and to ensure compliance with the Code of Conduct . |