Example sentences of "[modal v] have been [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the UN force in Namibia should have been up to handling the affair rather than turn the job over to the South Africans ; it would have been able to cope if it had been as strong as originally intended and deployed in good time with a decent plan in its knapsack . |
| 2 | I should have been back at school in Nigeria . |
| 3 | I should have been back at the office . |
| 4 | The previous night I had got carried away , talking at length to the press and television when I should have been back in our quarters calming down , relaxing and getting some sleep . |
| 5 | Quakers resorted to long balls , giving Nick Cusack several half chances , but they should have been back in the game after 72 minutes when David Cork jinked round his marker , Martin James , in the six yard box , and was then hauled down . |
| 6 | By now you should have been out on several practice walks and determined your state of fitness . |
| 7 | Erm , yeah just let me make sure I can get a baby sitter , it just depends what mum and dad are up to , I know they should have been out on Friday night |
| 8 | No Chris should have been in at six , that 's when the first team started counting . |
| 9 | They must have been on to her or somebody 's given her away , one or t' other , 'cos it must have been a set-up cop . |
| 10 | He must have been around for years but I did n't know what his name was . |
| 11 | ‘ You must have been up with the famous Ord Gaunt ? ’ says the man whose name Howard did n't quite catch , and the dense Middle English blackletter in which the words are uttered exactly matches their resonant profundity . |
| 12 | They must have been up at Cambridge about the same time . |
| 13 | Since I 've understood what management was about — I suppose that must have been back in the early 1950s — I 've had the philosophy that if I go into a job I must do it better than the bloke who 's been doing it before me . |
| 14 | You must have been in about in your mid twenties ? |
| 15 | Wassall must have been in with a chance of winning the £10,000 first prize because he was the fifth fastest qualifier , with a time of 11.92sec for the 100 metres . |
| 16 | ‘ That means Goering must have been in on it ? |
| 17 | Reuben Boll must have been down to the Canaries or Tenerife . |
| 18 | That must have been down to the policeman . |
| 19 | Once I heard a very stupid queen say , How old are you , Madame ? ( god that one must have been out of it ) . |
| 20 | Sam must have been out of his mind . |
| 21 | Father must have been out of his mind to employ him . ’ |
| 22 | I think it must have been out of doors , because what I recall most is the way she seemed to dwindle on planes of blue . ’ |
| 23 | I must have been out of my mind … |
| 24 | Truly , she must have been out of her mind ! |
| 25 | ‘ He must have been out of his mind , giving a family heirloom to that cold , scheming little bitch , ’ Didi remarked bitterly . |
| 26 | I must have been out of my mind . |
| 27 | He must have been out with his bike probably come in got off his bike went straight inside at least I brought my drink with me Well you wo n't offer me a drink . |
| 28 | Stephen Hawking makes frequent references to what God might have been up to when designing the cosmos . |
| 29 | Robert might have been up in the house . |
| 30 | ‘ She might have been down at the jetty a couple of hours ago . |