Example sentences of "[modal v] have been in [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Watt , out for a sabbath stroll past the Golf-House on Glasgow Green when he should have been in church , had a flash of inspiration that was to change the lives of every man , woman , and bairn on planet earth . |
| 2 | I often saw him wandering about in the fields and lanes or fishing in quiet reaches of the river when he should have been in school . |
| 3 | He should have been in London . |
| 4 | The book should have been in Tollemarche 's only bookstore for several weeks ; however , when Hank casually sauntered in and asked for a copy , old Mr Pascall said it had not arrived . |
| 5 | Here , the failure to consult was material because if the community health council had been consulted when it should have been in May , 1992 , it might have helped to ensure that the commitment to transfer the unit to the new hospital remained until a satisfactory new home for the unit could be found . |
| 6 | But I could n't tell my mother or father because I should have been in bed by that time . |
| 7 | He should have been in bed , but it was breathlessly hot , and Richard , who was at home , had been irritated by his whining . |
| 8 | So how did I come to be in the car in the middle of the night when I should have been in bed sound asleep ? |
| 9 | Have n't you got him back yet ? did you say he was last heard of on the Silk Road and he should have been in Caledonia. ? oh dear ! and Boudicca 's got his legs ready . |
| 10 | This organization was not always as efficient in fact as it should have been in theory . |
| 11 | They picked up scores of children who should have been in class , and found that many stay away from school with their parents ' knowledge and consent . |
| 12 | I should have been in Ken Hurren 's office and now be back in my own , absorbed once again in assessing the department 's performance , noting perhaps the promptness with which I myself had channelled work to the appropriate division . |
| 13 | He should have been in Loudwater , Bucks , 30 miles away . |
| 14 | I did n't want to get into soap opera conversation about it with him , but on the occasions that we did talk about it , both of us felt that someone , with perhaps a little more eye on reality , would have realised that he should have been in hospital and not at home unable to reach oxygen . |
| 15 | A tail-steady , which should have been in place under a hard point before work started , was about 6″ out of position . |
| 16 | I must have been in shock . |
| 17 | When they finally moved out their successors found the floor covered with six layers of linoleum — the bottom ones must have been in position for many a long year ! |
| 18 | If to this is added the domestic tensions occasioned by Offa 's determination to secure the succession of his son , Ecgfrith , it becomes clear how highly charged the political atmosphere must have been in Offa 's last years . |
| 19 | The seller must have been in possession of the goods or documents of title . |
| 20 | Since , as will be seen , Molla Fenari had almost certainly gone to Egypt for further study by that date , it follows that if Husameddin is right , it must have been in Amasya that Molla Fenari studied under Cemaleddin Aksarayi . |
| 21 | The reservations that Galileo 's rivals held about accepting phenomena such as the moons of Jupiter that Galileo had learnt to see must have been in part due , not to prejudice , but to genuine difficulties encountered when learning to ‘ see ’ through what were , after all , very crude telescopes . |
| 22 | He must have been in Mrs Wright 's house with Lee much longer than he 'd thought . |
| 23 | Some fairy must have been in love with your father . |
| 24 | Improbable as it was , he must have been in love with her . |
| 25 | She must have been in love with Ven even then without knowing it . |
| 26 | He must have been in town after all . |
| 27 | Though one might think that all those who left must have been in agreement with the National Socialist ideology , there appear to have been artists of all persuasions who remained members . |
| 28 | Alternatively , you must have been in charge of a yacht for at least a week , perhaps on Villa-Flotilla . |
| 29 | The marriage must have been in trouble even then , he thought , and he had n't known . |
| 30 | ‘ The doctor must have been in league with Nigel , ’ Jacqui insisted truculently . |