Example sentences of "you [modal v] have been [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 15a ‘ You ought to have been more careful . |
| 2 | ‘ You ought to have been more careful if you did n't want to marry him ! ’ |
| 3 | you , you must 've been there ten years plus . |
| 4 | Everybody says , ‘ Oh , you won £44,000 in the world championships , you must 've been really pleased with that , ’ but it 's not just the money , it 's being able to pick up the trophy at the end — that 's the nice thing . |
| 5 | ‘ You must have been so relieved when Ross turned up and it was all sorted out . ’ |
| 6 | " You must have been really excited , " said She-She quietly , as she started plucking tissues from the box . |
| 7 | You must have been very surprised that you were n't pro |
| 8 | You must have been very angry when Sheldrake got in first — no wonder you hate him . ’ |
| 9 | But you must have been sufficiently curious to check it out on a map . |
| 10 | ‘ I should like that very much , but you must have been there many times before . ’ |
| 11 | I says , You should have been here five minutes ago , we did a marvellous job . |
| 12 | ‘ You should have been here last week , ’ Bob continues . |
| 13 | Any ideas on that score swiftly evaporated , however , when his glance suddenly shot to hers , and she was on the receiving end of his piercing eyes as , ‘ According to this , you should have been here last Friday ! ’ he charged . |
| 14 | The best thing they could say about London was , ‘ you should have been here ten years ago ’ . |
| 15 | One day when the driver arrived at ten minutes past ten an angry customer berated him : ‘ You 're late , you should have been here ten minutes ago ! ’ |
| 16 | ‘ What I fail to understand is why you should have been so distressed by Sofia 's fantasy . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ You should have been more specific , ’ I said , then sighed as the pips sounded and Eric eventually put more money in . |
| 18 | You should have been more kind to your loyal readers . |
| 19 | ‘ You should have been more careful before you started playing with fire ! |
| 20 | That you should have been there all the while and me not know it all this time ! |
| 21 | ‘ You should have been there last Saturday night . |
| 22 | ‘ You might have been seriously ill , ’ she said . |
| 23 | We played dominoes with an old boy and his wife ; she was eighty , and if you 'd seen her puffing cigarettes and drinking strong ale , you 'd have been as dumbfounded as I was . |
| 24 | I see from your CV , Mrs Spring , that you graduated in 1972 — so you would have been just TWELVE ? |
| 25 | Now one hundred and nineteen for four , Tufnell bowls this one , forward goes and the ball trickles up towards and another maiden over so now they 've had sixteen overs , ten maidens for seventeen and er I think in the old days you would have been quite proud of those figures erm Victor . |
| 26 | And you would have been about seven at the time . |
| 27 | Had you bothered to look up the LD-50 in any standard work , or even bothered to consult Dr Woodward , you would have been more cautious about repeating tales of poisoning . |
| 28 | But in more robust days , you would have been more likely to come upon a coven up there , since the summit of La Rhune was one of several places in the Basque lands where witches were held to convene during the very ugly years of persecution early in the seventeenth century — then it was , according to the local inquisitors , that English and Scottish travellers arriving by sea in Bordeaux saw veritable armies of devils making their way towards south-western France . |
| 29 | Erm , just a point of information , I think er on the hundred and thirty-one million , including the Lincoln , and I think er they would have been you would have been under serious er distress on that , because the information I have had from the Department of Transport , is that if the Lincoln scheme had gone ahead , it would have effectively blocked everything else for the next five years , and that would n't have done you any good , from where you 're elected , either . |