Example sentences of "[vb mod] have been [verb] a " in BNC.

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1 The woman had not looked like a prostitute , besides which had that been the case Fedorov 's driver should have been taking a walk along the quay , or just sitting gazing tactfully ahead .
2 The other time I came near to being shot was in May , when nobody should have been firing a rifle .
3 ‘ It 's something that should have been done a long time ago .
4 Which should have been done a long time ago , and I 've been given yet another extension .
5 ‘ Which is what should have been done a week since . ’
6 Martin needed a bit of time to settle down and should have been given a couple of throws in his usual position in the middle before going to the front and staying there .
7 He should have been given a medal for trying to catch a car vandal .
8 I BELIEVE Dr Cox should have been given a long jail sentence .
9 Thompson was backed by former hard-man Liverpool colleague Tommy Smith , who said Thompson should have been given a medal for what he did at Anfield , not the sack .
10 I do n't think she should have been given a custodial sentence , but a community service to make her think about what she 's done .
11 BATTLE of the Atlantic veteran and Garston MP Eddie Loyden should have been given a greater role in the recent commemorations .
12 and she said well we 've got , for instance , one of my favourite patience is the girl of er , I think she 's nineteen , and er , she 's in their because her father had raped her since she was about eight , when she was sixteen she killed him , well I said well I think she should have been given a medal .
13 Derek felt from an early age that he should have been born a woman .
14 1.9 In every case the onus lies on the defendant to prove that the plaintiff should have been wearing a seat belt and that his injuries would have been avoided or less severe if he had been .
15 First , take the point made by Mr. Holloway from Germany , who says that South Africa ( they should have been granted a dispensation and welcomed to World Cup 1991 ) must surely go through the full qualifying process for 1995 .
16 It was argued for the husband that the wife should have been awarded a lump sum of £532,000 , calculated in accordance with the principles established in Preston v Prestion ( 1982 ) Fam 17 and Duxbury v Duxbury ( 1987 ) FLR 7 , to provide sufficient income to satisfy the reasonable requirements of the former wife of a millionaire .
17 Copsey should have been awarded a Lonsdale belt for his first-half haymaker on Francis .
18 Celtic should have been awarded a penalty in the 87th minute when Slater was tripped in the box but the referee waved away the appeals .
19 the United fans enjoyed this game … they should have been celebrating a bigger win too …
20 In reply , Greenidge and Richards hammered 88 in even time , but then only Murray made a substantial score , his 64 being joint top with Richards and 41 more than it should have been had a catch been accepted ; 308 all out .
21 ‘ I should have been marrying a prince . ’
22 The discovery should have been predicted a decade earlier by Einstein .
23 It must have been chasing a squirrel or something and fell into the hollow and could not get out again . ’
24 But one of the offices in the area must have been undergoing a thorough make-over , because along with the garbage and a tangled mess of strip aluminium and ceiling tiles he found a number of office throwouts that included a desk lamp with about five yards of trailing flex .
25 I mean I had no idea that by doing ‘ I left no ring with her ’ by Viola I was doing something that must have been heard a hundred times that day — I had no idea .
26 She must have been given a lift home from school with someone 's dad , because there were two other girls in the car in green uniforms .
27 Greek Intelligence must have been taking a more than passing interest in the activities of our friend Andropulos over a long period , years I would think .
28 ‘ Something is wrong , Fabia ? ’ he asked urgently , leaving his stance over by the French window where he must have been taking a look outside , to come over to her .
29 He must have been staggering a bit out there by the pool .
30 It must have been said a thousand times in angling literature that location is the key to success and in zander fishing this was never more so .
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