Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] [be] [adv] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Irate boss to late arrival at Lloyd 's : ‘ You should have been here at nine o'clock . ’ |
| 2 | IRATE boss to late arrival at Lloyd 's : ‘ You should have been here at nine o'clock . ’ |
| 3 | All the time yes , apart from say about six weeks , used to come in in the winter to repair the do maintenance on the dredger and then the old harbourmaster would say right , we should have been here for six weeks , he come after a month , he 'd say , paint the cover the rust up he said and bugger off out again . |
| 4 | Iago had brought him , and Iago should have been here within two more days to take him away , somewhat recovered now and strong enough to continue his flight into Wales . |
| 5 | This was like quarter to twelve , he should have been there at eleven o'clock . |
| 6 | Once I got in well hungover at four in the afternoon when I should have been there at 11 . |
| 7 | The first thing that strikes me is that my aunt — an almost complete stranger as far as I was concerned — should have been there at all , within the family circle where no friend or neighbour was allowed , and thus in a privileged position to make personal remarks of the type which would not have been tolerated from any other quarter . |
| 8 | ‘ It must have been between half-past seven and eight . ’ |
| 9 | He was exaggerating , of course , but all the same , she must have been away for longer than she had intended . |
| 10 | Occasionally it is explained that they had already died — and given the still short life-expectancy of the period this must have been so in many cases . |
| 11 | ( Even so , Valentin 's marriage did not survive and it is difficult to avoid the conclusion that its atmosphere must have been far from normal . |
| 12 | Wiping them might have been enough for most people — but not for somebody who was trying to do card tricks . ’ |
| 13 | That might have been so in this nation , but it was not the case throughout the empire . |
| 14 | The boy in the photograph , whose age could have been anywhere between fifteen and twenty , was staring at the camera with startled eyes . |
| 15 | She could have been anywhere between twenty-five and forty , but Jezrael did n't care that her boss was n't wearing plastiface or that her hazel eyes looked like they might brim with mirth . |
| 16 | Aye you 'd have been there in thirty nine . |
| 17 | The floor of these forests was , at best , only sparsely vegetated and great areas may have been entirely without any living leaves . |
| 18 | Pumpido had to make two saves while neither of the Italians need have been there at all . |
| 19 | If the SRs had achieved power , ‘ their actions would have been exactly like those of the Bolshevik Party . ’ |
| 20 | The Labour government 's priority from 1964 onwards was the servicing of the economy in response to demands made on them by capital ; in so far as working-class girls could have contributed to this , it would have been only in those unskilled jobs for which greater or better education was not required . |
| 21 | It would have been still worth one million pounds had it not been cancelled of course , and the item is actually cancelled , so consequently , naturally not . |
| 22 | You will enjoy being here at this course , you will enjoy the training . |
| 23 | It is the longest time the that the royal couple will have been together in public since the intense speculation about their marriage during the summer . |