Example sentences of "[modal v] have be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | So if the law was clear that in those circumstances they should have been on notice and should have therefore watched where the money was going , there would n't have been a problem and are we not saying that legitimate stock lending , which I think is what Good is abou is suggesting , if carried on properly on market , would be all right , but if it immediately goes off market into the back doors and back rooms and people ca n't see what 's going on and the financial institutions take part in that , then they are doing something that un undoubtedly is probably going to cause loss to pension funds and should n't there be a clear law which makes them liable in those circumstances . |
| 32 | Should have been on my hair fifteen minutes |
| 33 | He should have been on the end of that . |
| 34 | 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 . |
| 35 | The first pinnacle of his athletic achievement should have been at the Berlin Olympics in 1936 . |
| 36 | When we got home I was surprised to see Dad sitting in his usual seat because he should have been at work . |
| 37 | Yet here was her grandson fending for himself , leaning amiably against a kitchen cupboard and eating a self-made sandwich , while his mother gave infinite attention to food for women who should have been at home attending to their own children . |
| 38 | We should have been at Ardneavie ages ago . ’ |
| 39 | ‘ You should have been at the Washington gig at the 9.30 Club . |
| 40 | The only fascination is listening to a song that should have been at most ten seconds long and hearing some fool trying to get ten minutes out of it . |
| 41 | He should have been at the airport last evening to see Elsa Lawrence and her children off and the casket . |
| 42 | She should have been at home . |
| 43 | He should have been at boarding school , but his mother , who loved him very much , had brought him home for a month or two , because she thought his health was delicate . |
| 44 | It was a tragic irony for the Byzantines , and for Christian Europe , that the first Ottoman incursion into Europe , in 1345 , should have been at the invitation of one of the rulers of Constantinople . |
| 45 | The three boys should have been at school with their ragged clothes , crew cuts and sullen eyes . |
| 46 | Hindley Earnshaw should have been at Catherine 's burial yesterday , but he had been drinking so much that he could n't go . |
| 47 | ‘ I should have been at my parents ’ house an hour ago ! |
| 48 | My point of order is that , if the Government are having a difference with someone as important as a European Commissioner over such a substantial sum of European and public money , and with the charges that the British Treasury is laundering that money , surely a Minister should have been at the Dispatch Box today to make a statement . |
| 49 | It was the middle of the after noon , he should have been at work . |
| 50 | The Ministry of Reconstruction , the only potential co-ordinating body for post-war plans , was dismantled in June 1919 , just when it should have been at the peak of its activities . |
| 51 | It was about a week after my showdown with Quigley and I should have been at Harvest Festival . |
| 52 | He should have been at least booked in the first half , for a nasty and ‘ professional ’ foul . |
| 53 | They should have been at the scene in a quarter of an hour . |
| 54 | Saturday afternoon , I ought to have been at home it was three o'clock and I should have been at er , in Leicester then . |
| 55 | and what we doing now is London , London yesterday and you , you should have been at home today but he had to go back to London again so I did n't keep him very much , given up is it ? |
| 56 | The cry should have been for real money , the only means by which genuine choice can be exercised and discrimination on the basis of age eliminated . |
| 57 | It was short and straight , which was more than could be said for her mouth , which was curvy and rather wider than it should have been for her ashen , wedge-shaped face . |
| 58 | So , I think that in the opinion of Miller the family was the most important thing for B. and should have been for Eddie and all parents , but the priority for Catherine was her own life and I think that as far as Miller is concerned she is right , because she has a whole future ahead of her while B. and Eddie have settled down . |
| 59 | The one person who should have been with her was absent , having ( as Aunt Nessy had told me some years before in bewilderment , and with a valiantly suppressed trembling of the lip ) written to say that she never wanted to see her again . |
| 60 | He should have been with the girl from the petrol station half an hour ago , but he was too eaten up with jealousy that his dear amigo , Luke , had taken that white-haired she-devil out for a drink . |