Example sentences of "[vb mod] have been in [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " It should have been in her handbag , because the shopman said she did n't go on to the pillar-box to post anything . |
| 2 | The picture of the Child of Prague looked down in all its red and gold splendour on the framed photograph of the late Superintendent Michael O'Neal who smiled widely on three little blonde heads who should have been in their beds . |
| 3 | when this place come it should have been in my name were n't it , because he never done nothing for it |
| 4 | ‘ It 's got its attractions , but you should have been in it last night . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ The potential for what he became must have been in him all the time . ’ |
| 6 | She tried to imagine what an imposing building it must have been in its time . |
| 7 | Carpenter 's speed and control was even causing problems for Harris , himself no slouch , and Farnham 's hearts must have been in their mouths when the Cranleigh number 10 , having broken clear on the right , hit the deck after a late challenge by Cann who had raced out of his area . |
| 8 | They must have been in their twenties when the family moved from Trebyan . ’ |
| 9 | She must have been in her late thirties then , but to me she seemed timeless . |
| 10 | I was also warned to stay away from the tennis court if anyone was playing , but on one Saturday , a party was in progress and Miss Betty Farr , who must have been in her early twenties , spotted me trying not to be seen , called me over and plied me with cakes and lemonade . |
| 11 | Quite a little cracker in her day , she must have been in her late thirties now . |
| 12 | He met my mother when he was in his early thirties and she must have been in her teens . |
| 13 | I mean she must have been in her seventies . |
| 14 | ‘ Nice of you , ’ said Gerald Seymour-Strachey , flashing at him those miraculously even teeth , and looking every inch the debonair squire of dames he must have been in his youth . |
| 15 | Well it must be ten years ago when he worked for the B B C and that , he must have been in his late twenties then |
| 16 | ‘ She looked comparatively young , but she might have been in her late thirties , signorina . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ Oh , I thought they might have been in your family . ’ |
| 18 | There are two types of proposition in Freud 's theory which are not always as clearly distinguished as they might have been in his writing . |
| 19 | ‘ That boy could have been in my company or squadron . |
| 20 | erm I 'm not someone who 's for , for example , erm positive discrimination where that means choosing a woman when there 's a better man erm and I think that erm although some feminists do , certainly it 's not a necessary condition of being a feminist , and I certainly do n't , and I think that if John Major erm sincerely looked at all the women who could have been in his cabinet , and sincerely judged their abilities erm compared to the men who were available , erm and decided that the women were n't ready , then I think that 's , that 's a possible position . |
| 21 | But well I 'd have been in my teens then . |
| 22 | I 'd have been in it and in those bars in Gibraltar giving it the big lips by last night . ’ |
| 23 | However , complex these ideas may have been in their original conception , they were taken over by many educationalists in a simplified , stereotypic form , typified by the supposed dichotomy between ‘ elaborated ’ and ‘ restricted ’ codes . |
| 24 | they may they may have been in your list of documents , but copies of them may or may not of been handed over but |
| 25 | I am not sure what Harold Brodkey may have been in his last incarnation , but he has now reached that most enviable of all earthly states , that of the American cult writer . |
| 26 | In 1899 he lost his much-loved daughter , Josephine , and this sad event may have been in his mind when he wrote the emotive story , They . |
| 27 | He may have been in his forties and driving either a grey , silver or light metallic-coloured car . |
| 28 | Back at Gayflowers , the florists where one of the last sightings of James and the two boys was made , Eric Teare said he thought that one of the boys may have been in his shop . |
| 29 | So if that was Jim cos Jim would 've been in his he has n't laid |
| 30 | ‘ The crash happened at a time when a lot of people would have been in their homes . ’ |