Example sentences of "[vb mod] have been [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah , that 's the whole thing , we 've gathered all the information now , we may 've been there an hour , hour an a half , maybe two hours depending upon the appointment so you go back to the office and work on a plan of attack . |
| 2 | You should 've been here yesterday fore . |
| 3 | Should 've been here yesterday forenoon ! , |
| 4 | But I say , it should 've been it should 've been all d I mean everybody 's known about this chiller for a long while and it 's as I say , I mean when was here it was costing a thousand pound a time . |
| 5 | must 've been already off though |
| 6 | Even the soldiers in the field must 've been thoroughly sick of all those whining pieces about Our Boys and Girls , and their mail , or the endlessly recycled nonsense about how hard it was to be a female soldier in Saudi Arabia . |
| 7 | He must 've been dead eighteen years . |
| 8 | And when I came back , Bobby I gave Grant they and erm he must 've been pretty desperate because he did a wee wee before we left and he did a wee wee before |
| 9 | And your sister 's ten years older than you so they must 've been there ten years plus , must n't they ? |
| 10 | you , you must 've been there ten years plus . |
| 11 | Yeah , he 's , he 's into ev oh it must 've been about six or eight weeks ago he started saying a couple of things and I thought oh he 's coming now , but it stopped I think I got excited when he started saying dark , but that 's as far as it got , int it ? |
| 12 | It was and yet , I 'm losing my thread with , what I was going to say was , it must 've been so important because an in that you could get anything you liked . |
| 13 | There must 've been with erm in forty seven was it the encirclement campaign where they allowed the nationalists to sort of drive through the , I do n't know the defences , they must 've been fairly certain of their support in certain areas by then . |
| 14 | so they must 've been fairly sure of their support to allow them to come into an area of villages . |
| 15 | Now if , if you accept the ten percent owning the eighty percent , there must 've been enough but the poor are not getting it . |
| 16 | So , she starts quizzing me and I start nattering on about the bloody Brontes — I think Mrs Fleming must 've been really intelligent when she was young , honest-to-god she was firing them at me faster than Bamber Gascoigne , she says to me : ‘ And tell me , Karen , how are you going to deal with the themes of Repressed Sexuality in the Brontes ' work ? ’ |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | She played down her abilities , fluffed tasks that should have been childishly simple . |
| 19 | But that neither scene nor season favoured fear , I should have been superstitiously afraid . |
| 20 | When she should have been indignantly pulling away somehow she was melting into his arms , her lips parting beneath the increasing ardour of his . |
| 21 | Regardless of nerves ( which should have been largely removed through practice examinations ) , resolve to follow a fixed routine during the examination . |
| 22 | As I pull up at the back of the hotel Mr Shah is waiting with a folder full ; his expression , although friendly , contains around his mouth a little reproach that I should have been away from the action for so long . |
| 23 | The figures were high for a county in which comital lordship had not been noticeably demanding ; the count 's fortifications should have been adequately defended . |
| 24 | It should have been just the incentive Ipswich needed to take control of the game but instead it was Newcastle who went in at half-time leading . |
| 25 | It should have been just one of those stories one dines out on afterwards , only the wretched woman thought I was being deliberately insulting and complained to the Management . |
| 26 | It should have been downhill all the way for retired Shetland Pony Selwyn , instead it turned out to be downbeat . |
| 27 | The trunk of the lights should have been marginally taller , the spread of their branches carrying the individual bulbs broader . |
| 28 | The following paragraph appeared on the last page of a recently published official report : perhaps it should have been nearer the front ! |
| 29 | What should have been equally obvious to the assemblymen was the fury they were thus provoking , including megaphonic demonstrations by the opposition Democratic Progressive party to coincide with the students ' protests . |
| 30 | ‘ But she was very brave and amazed the doctors by doing things when they thought she should have been dead long ago . ’ |