Example sentences of "[vb mod] have been [verb] [adv] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | How very conceited to assume that , out of all the billions of billions of planets in the universe , our own little backwater of a world , in our own local backwater of a solar system , in our own local backwater of a galaxy , should have been singled out for life ? |
| 2 | Cantona should have been sent off for poking Fairclough , BBC did n't show that . |
| 3 | Wallace looked menacing and was through at one point when Burrows hacked him down ( the scouser should have been sent off for that and a clear ‘ professional foul ’ in the second half against Deane ) . |
| 4 | Koeman should have been sent off for a deliberate foul on Platt ( who actually got 5.9 for the skill in making it look much worse ) . |
| 5 | Worse still , the new skiers — beginners — who should have been making up for those who stop because old age or the arrival of infants stops ski holidays — were simply not attracted to a sport when everyone was complaining about bad conditions . |
| 6 | What happened , people should have been paying in for ten years were suddenly taking out for ten years and these huge enormous sums and obviously the surplus which our members had helped to build up er and provide through the years and we 've got seventy-five year olds on you know , extremely low pensions hardly making ends meet , and there were vast sums of money being given away to the employees , that the employers took a contribution holiday and so they were n't paying into the fund either you know , and all the profits of B T as you all know were soaring and partially because of the use of the pension funds and this has greatly obviously erm upset our members and we feel very strongly about it . |
| 7 | Because private accommodation is usually paid a month at a time , as compared to a term in advance in halls of residence , it 's often tempting to lull oneself into a false sense of secure finances , spending money that should have been put aside for the rent . |
| 8 | The argument must have been going on for some time , although Lucien had been hardly aware of it . |
| 9 | Might have been queuing up for the keep-fit actually , yes I was , I was queuing up to go to keep-fit and there was a woman in the queue saying that about so and so and so , ooh he 's moving she said ! |
| 10 | As the porter said , the corpses might have been lying there for days , even weeks . |
| 11 | Sara suddenly understood why James might have been brought along for the week-end to Moorlake . |
| 12 | Going into the bedroom again she put on the oatmeal dress which might have been bought yesterday for fit . |
| 13 | That hard-fought win might have been deemed enough for the season , but his French owner was keen to run her little battler ( bred in France ) in the top French jumping event — in which he had finished second three years earlier — and so three months after the Gold Cup , when he might have thought himself to have earned a summer holiday , Mandarin was despatched to Paris . |
| 14 | It may seem incredible that they could have been remembered accurately for many decades , but the construction of skaldic verse was complex , and features such as the binding of pairs of lines by allit-eration , and rhyme and consonance within lines , perhaps facilitated the correct transmission of individual words . |
| 15 | Little by little you will start to release any unnecessary tension that may have been stored unknowingly for many years . |
| 16 | Pigs may have spent some time with the swineherd in the distant woodland , but part of the wood would have been cropped for fuel , poles , wood for repairs to buildings , fences , implements and so on , while a few trees may have been cut down for constructional work on the bridge over the Yeo or to build a new house . |
| 17 | ‘ I wo n't deny that , Mrs Wilson , but there was a period , just before she disappeared … well , I say just before she disappeared but it may have been going on for years , I do n't know … there was a period when she was very unhappy , very unhappy indeed . ’ |
| 18 | Such trading emporia may have been established purely for the profit of the king and the servicing of his estates . |
| 19 | In fact , you can use your Steamatic to tackle those tough and often unpleasant jobs that you may have been putting off for ages . |
| 20 | Such weaponry may have been designed principally for warfare and combat , yet the existence of wild animal bones on settlements , especially deer , points to hunting being a means of supplementing the diet ; yet what was used to bring down such game ? |
| 21 | If it had been someone else 's funeral George would have been looking out for the nearest pub . |
| 22 | ‘ The normal courtesy would have been to phone ahead for an appointment . ’ |
| 23 | In fact , options or at least verbal commitments will have been obtained already for some special buys which are wanted , but nothing will have been the subject of a formal order to any of the media before this . |
| 24 | Next month she will have been locked up for 4 years without being charged or tried , while an examining magistrate struggles to assemble enough evidence to convict her of murdering first her husband and then her boyfriend . |
| 25 | Sometimes a murder enquiry will have been going on for some days before it emerges that there is a sexual element involved . |
| 26 | Is the Minister aware that , by 9 January , Bir Zeit university will have been closed continuously for a period of four years and that a generation of young Palestinians will have been denied the right to higher education , which is surely one of the basic fundamental human rights ? |
| 27 | This , like the argument about human progress , suggests that the universe can have been going only for a finite time . |