Example sentences of "[modal v] have been [verb] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was the town naughty boy all right , and it was incongruous that he should have been named Wesley . |
| 2 | They should have been chasing Steve Jones . |
| 3 | Instead of considering only the recommendations in the sub-committee 's report and deciding on that , the counties should have been assessing E.W. 's articles and trying to find arguments to put against them . |
| 4 | I can remember Leslie coming home , I think I must have been expecting Doreen at the time , that was in , that was early early on , nineteen , well that was nineteen sixty three , and he was , he had heard that had I had been in the Gatehouse Drama Club , and er he said , Would I be interested in com in coming to the Drama in if they started ? |
| 5 | I knew that Vecchi 's reason for shooting Mahoney was something that must have been worrying Mr. Bonanza . |
| 6 | Stuart said the girl must have been leading Oliver on and being provocative , I said she was probably shy and terrified by these advances from her teacher , until we both realised neither of us had set eyes on the girl or knew what had happened . |
| 7 | But I am sure there will be many former BC employees at Dawdon and Murton among them who will be wondering what might have been had Clarke shown his colours sooner rather than later . |
| 8 | Any one of a very large number of ways of throwing rocks together would be labelled a mountain , and might have been named Mont Blanc . |
| 9 | He might have been speaking Ursprache , for all that I understood . |
| 10 | There was so much hostility to his Catholicism and his attack on chartered rights that it might have been thought William and Mary would have had no difficulty establishing their authority in America , but this was not what happened . |
| 11 | It might have been carrying Sergei 's lifeless body : so thin a line divides the dead and the living . |
| 12 | Had they , after nineteen-eighteen , learnt the lessons that were to be learnt , then we might have been spared Hitler and the Second World War . |
| 13 | He may have been christened Henry but he 'll certainly be known as ‘ Hairy ’ . |
| 14 | Hayes may have been protecting Minton from hurt , but Bratby saw in his action the kind of censorship that accompanied then anything to do with homosexuality . |
| 15 | Just as he would have been using Nicola Schreider , she reflected with sudden cold certainty . |
| 16 | Or would have been had Gemma not insisted on remaining in the very centre of so much decay and corruption and " horridness ' , in Frizingley . |
| 17 | As Nigel Roebuck points out in his book with Mario , ‘ on 21 June 1964 , Jackie Stewart ( born seven months before Mario ) would have been racing Ken Tyrrell 's F3 Cooper somewhere and James Hunt playing tennis at Wellington College . |
| 18 | Wolverhampton Wanderers would have been visiting Hereford United in the semi-final of the Sherpa Van Trophy |
| 19 | Benbulbin ought to have been called Benbulbous , for one end of the barbaric table bulged upward in a great curve , with lesser knuckle-shapes on each side . |