Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] [been] [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The woman had not looked like a prostitute , besides which had that been the case Fedorov 's driver should have been taking a walk along the quay , or just sitting gazing tactfully ahead . |
| 2 | The other time I came near to being shot was in May , when nobody should have been firing a rifle . |
| 3 | NETRHA officers felt vulnerable on the point that the priority groups should have been getting an increased share of the regional budget . |
| 4 | Musician to the end , he died through insisting on conducting a new revival of Castor et Pollux when he should have been nursing an illness . |
| 5 | Furious Cowboys coach Jimmy Johnson argued it should have been called an incomplete pass and made his point forcibly after the Redskins ' 20-17 victory . |
| 6 | ‘ It 's something that should have been done a long time ago . |
| 7 | Which should have been done a long time ago , and I 've been given yet another extension . |
| 8 | ‘ Which is what should have been done a week since . ’ |
| 9 | Martin needed a bit of time to settle down and should have been given a couple of throws in his usual position in the middle before going to the front and staying there . |
| 10 | He should have been given a medal for trying to catch a car vandal . |
| 11 | I BELIEVE Dr Cox should have been given a long jail sentence . |
| 12 | Thompson was backed by former hard-man Liverpool colleague Tommy Smith , who said Thompson should have been given a medal for what he did at Anfield , not the sack . |
| 13 | I do n't think she should have been given a custodial sentence , but a community service to make her think about what she 's done . |
| 14 | BATTLE of the Atlantic veteran and Garston MP Eddie Loyden should have been given a greater role in the recent commemorations . |
| 15 | and she said well we 've got , for instance , one of my favourite patience is the girl of er , I think she 's nineteen , and er , she 's in their because her father had raped her since she was about eight , when she was sixteen she killed him , well I said well I think she should have been given a medal . |
| 16 | Derek felt from an early age that he should have been born a woman . |
| 17 | 1.9 In every case the onus lies on the defendant to prove that the plaintiff should have been wearing a seat belt and that his injuries would have been avoided or less severe if he had been . |
| 18 | First , take the point made by Mr. Holloway from Germany , who says that South Africa ( they should have been granted a dispensation and welcomed to World Cup 1991 ) must surely go through the full qualifying process for 1995 . |
| 19 | It was argued for the husband that the wife should have been awarded a lump sum of £532,000 , calculated in accordance with the principles established in Preston v Prestion ( 1982 ) Fam 17 and Duxbury v Duxbury ( 1987 ) FLR 7 , to provide sufficient income to satisfy the reasonable requirements of the former wife of a millionaire . |
| 20 | Copsey should have been awarded a Lonsdale belt for his first-half haymaker on Francis . |
| 21 | Celtic should have been awarded a penalty in the 87th minute when Slater was tripped in the box but the referee waved away the appeals . |
| 22 | the United fans enjoyed this game … they should have been celebrating a bigger win too … |
| 23 | On the very bad day , I think we should have been offered an alternative source of water . ’ |
| 24 | In reply , Greenidge and Richards hammered 88 in even time , but then only Murray made a substantial score , his 64 being joint top with Richards and 41 more than it should have been had a catch been accepted ; 308 all out . |
| 25 | ‘ I should have been marrying a prince . ’ |
| 26 | The discovery should have been predicted a decade earlier by Einstein . |
| 27 | ‘ Prince Charles should have been running an organic farm , with special interests in the arts . |
| 28 | It must have been chasing a squirrel or something and fell into the hollow and could not get out again . ’ |
| 29 | But one of the offices in the area must have been undergoing a thorough make-over , because along with the garbage and a tangled mess of strip aluminium and ceiling tiles he found a number of office throwouts that included a desk lamp with about five yards of trailing flex . |
| 30 | I mean I had no idea that by doing ‘ I left no ring with her ’ by Viola I was doing something that must have been heard a hundred times that day — I had no idea . |