Example sentences of "[vb mod] [vb infin] [be] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It should 've been with the batch of papers given . |
| 2 | I told him it must 've been about the Royal Garden Party . |
| 3 | Jackson must 've been under the effects of the anaesthetic after a nose job to come out with something so bad . |
| 4 | Smith should have been on the bench for London 's game against the Midlands last Saturday but had to drop out with the same complaint . |
| 5 | Smith should have been on the bench for London 's game against the Midlands last Saturday but had to drop out with the same complaint . |
| 6 | You should have been on the plane back from her hol — sorry , charity visit — in Florida last week . |
| 7 | ‘ They will have a point to prove to me that they should have been on the tour . |
| 8 | The inner door has a large mosquito net , although I did feel the mesh should have been on the outside of the door flap so you could keep bugs out . |
| 9 | The boat was just as it should have been on the night of the murder and had not been . |
| 10 | By the way , I am convinced that the black girl who joined us should have been on the cultural induction course next door . |
| 11 | He should have been on the team , even as a second . |
| 12 | I should have been on the following flight to bring you back . |
| 13 | McKean also got his tactics right on the track , even if later , when he should have been on the victory rostrum , he got ‘ boxed in ’ by some members of the press . |
| 14 | He should have been on the end of that . |
| 15 | The first pinnacle of his athletic achievement should have been at the Berlin Olympics in 1936 . |
| 16 | ‘ You should have been at the Washington gig at the 9.30 Club . |
| 17 | He should have been at the airport last evening to see Elsa Lawrence and her children off and the casket . |
| 18 | It was a tragic irony for the Byzantines , and for Christian Europe , that the first Ottoman incursion into Europe , in 1345 , should have been at the invitation of one of the rulers of Constantinople . |
| 19 | My point of order is that , if the Government are having a difference with someone as important as a European Commissioner over such a substantial sum of European and public money , and with the charges that the British Treasury is laundering that money , surely a Minister should have been at the Dispatch Box today to make a statement . |
| 20 | The Ministry of Reconstruction , the only potential co-ordinating body for post-war plans , was dismantled in June 1919 , just when it should have been at the peak of its activities . |
| 21 | They should have been at the scene in a quarter of an hour . |
| 22 | He should have been with the girl from the petrol station half an hour ago , but he was too eaten up with jealousy that his dear amigo , Luke , had taken that white-haired she-devil out for a drink . |
| 23 | ‘ But if she packed it it should have been with the rest of her things . |
| 24 | I detest the noisy unanimity of Picasso 's heirs , in particular that of Bernard and Paloma Picasso : the former thinks that ‘ the Reina Sofia is a wonderful place for ‘ Guernica' 's last journey , while the latter believes that Guernica' 's last journey should have been to the Prado ’ . |
| 25 | Surely he should have been over the romantic stage by then . |
| 26 | We should have been over the pass by now and starting to look for the Hacienda Lucinda . |
| 27 | Although the justices were entitled to receive hearsay evidence in support of the application under section 92(2) of the Children Act 1989 , if psychiatric opinions were available , they should have been before the court in full by way of a report and/or direct evidence . |
| 28 | In September 1198 his election was repeated at Mainz and on the 8th he was crowned by the archbishop of Tarentaise , Aimo , not as he should have been by the archbishop of Mainz — recognized as the crowning archbishop from the tenth century — who was absent on crusade . |
| 29 | ‘ Mary — you should have been in the government . ’ |
| 30 | He was actually addressing God when he should have been in the water . |