Example sentences of "[pers pn] [modal v] have been put " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anyway , I 'd have been put out if my infallible charm had proved fallible after all ! ’ |
| 2 | In fact , you can use your Steamatic to tackle those tough and often unpleasant jobs that you may have been putting off for ages . |
| 3 | ‘ She could have been putting it on . ’ |
| 4 | If she was a boy , she says , she would have been put in a young offenders ' institution . |
| 5 | We should have been putting money by for a rainy day because that rainy day came . |
| 6 | We are a proud nation and at least we should have been put on stand-by . ’ |
| 7 | they must have been putting two thousand in you know |
| 8 | We do not think that they should have been put to this trouble we defend the status quo in the Scottish Bus Group . |
| 9 | The idea may have been worked out with some care or , at the other extreme , it may have been put up spontaneously at a meeting convened to discuss the content of a future programme of activity . |
| 10 | The agreement was cancelled because it should have been put out to competitive bidding . |
| 11 | In fact one can often feel Tolkien , between these ‘ low ’ and ‘ high ’ stylistic poles , breaking with complete success out of all the categories into which he should have been put , rising again from the edge of romance to what almost anyone might call ‘ myth ’ . |
| 12 | If Ronald Kray really was as vile as he is herein depicted , he should have been put to death and swiftly forgotten . |
| 13 | He should have been put up against a wall and shot , if you ask me , for dereliction of duty . |
| 14 | I think he must have been put in from a boat . " |
| 15 | I think he must have been putting on all that business with his ankle , just to gain sympathy . ’ |
| 16 | " Of course , he could have been put in somewhere on the flood and been carried upstream and then down again . |
| 17 | " There are places up there where he could have been put in all right without attracting too much attention . " |
| 18 | He could have been put there by the interior decorators . |
| 19 | Indeed , if any one of them had killed a cat , even in these special circumstances , he would have been put to death for it . |
| 20 | If he had been born in England he would have been put in care by now . |
| 21 | Moreover , he would have been putting back pretty well all he had drawn out the previous year … |
| 22 | Ricky had to steel himself not to take her in his arms , but he would have been putting a match to a petrol-soaked bonfire , and he did n't want to hate himself any more than he did already . |
| 23 | If the WGMS had been used in Britain in 1987 it would have been put to an exacting test in the South-East ( regarded in this context as one of the nine officially defined standard regions of England ) . |