Example sentences of "[vb mod] have been in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | , take some photographs of car parks , should of been there weeks ago and she and you have to be ready for , she should have been in this week how he 's going to get them to do that , there 's a train , there 's a er few hours service or what , it 's gon na cost a bomb And he 'll probably end up paying for it cos he I do n't know whether he 's doing it or not , it 's what he should of been doing . |
| 2 | Cheques should have been in last week . |
| 3 | Oh it was a dreadful thing when you come to think of it now , the poor women could n't help it she was must have been in desperate straits to do a thing like that . |
| 4 | She did n't finish her apprenticeship — I deduce that , rather than know it — sometime , it must have been in 1934 , came south , worked in Woolworths on the Edgware Road , spent the war years in Roehampton , a ward maid again , at the hospital where they mended fighter pilots ' ruined faces . |
| 5 | So it must have been in nineteen eighty nine , just after the |
| 6 | He saw a vast patch of blood and guessed that the ship must have been in one of the many petty skirmishes which took place at sea , for ships of various nations , Norway , Denmark , England , Scotland and France used these waters for fishing , trade and piracy . |
| 7 | She must have been in one of those baskets in the back of the car , Ruth supposed . |
| 8 | It must have been in that one moment of darkness , as she 'd been taking her hand away . |
| 9 | Aaron 's mother , Lesley , 26 , said : ‘ He was very calm and must have been in great pain . |
| 10 | You must have been in full-time employment for a fixed time before you can claim ? |
| 11 | Well , I must have been in first year juniors . |
| 12 | Others , however , joined in the exercise : ‘ It must have been in such and such a way ; I mean , there 's a story which says … |
| 13 | Coming back , as always , to the Jurassic , one has only to compare the 30 ammonite zones represented in one foot of sediment in Sicily with the 15 000 feet representing a single zone in Oregon , to realise how startlingly different rates of deposition must have been in different places . |
| 14 | This being must have been in some way necessary to humanity , it is inconceivable that this is not so , for surely there would have been evidence of at least one enduring civilisation that had neither ‘ god ’ nor temple . |
| 15 | Must have been in this room when I got here . |
| 16 | By the middle of 1802 , as the family house and shop passed into other hands , Ben was left alone with only sisters for company ; Elizabeth , the eldest , had very recently married , and little brother must have been in imminent danger of succumbing to the petticoat government of Mary and Sarah . |
| 17 | It must have been in these years that Henry II and Eleanor became increasingly estranged . |
| 18 | This transhumance to distant resources is often thought of only in connection with more primitive and foreign communities , but it was certainly common in Anglo-Saxon and medieval times and must have been in earlier periods as well ( Figs. 11 , 59 and 93 ) . |
| 19 | Said it 'll have been in all day . |
| 20 | Otherwise he might have been in serious trouble . |
| 21 | If his controller had taken her seriously , he might have been in real trouble . |
| 22 | The moonless sky was overcast , and gliding into an opaque blackness we might have been in outer space . |
| 23 | A subsidy assessment of £40 suggests that this completes the account of his lands ; any there might have been in other counties can not be deduced from the available evidence . |
| 24 | The end result might only be a slight scratch , but the potential might have been in that situation for something a lot worse . |
| 25 | Ours went , I think , to 2 , 5 and 7 ; the other floors might have been in another building , or another town . |
| 26 | WHO DO YOU THINK YOU MIGHT HAVE BEEN IN PREVIOUS LIVES ? |
| 27 | It seemed that not only the president , but the whole country , might have been in some delightful lotus-sleep for the past few years . |
| 28 | The tightly packed schiltrons might have been in some danger if the enemy 's Welsh archers had been used at once ; but Edward or his advisers thought they could settle things swiftly by an all-out cavalry charge . |
| 29 | I can honestly say I ca n't remember a show I definitely did n't like doing , although I might have been in some that did n't turn out as I though they would . ’ |
| 30 | I realized that I could have been in deep trouble there : I came close to inflicting a serious injury on Frank Dick . |