Example sentences of "[vb mod] have been [verb] this " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ THEY do n't know it , but they have killed children , ’ said Phil Green as he surveyed the charred and sodden remains of medicine , food , clothing and toys which should have been bound this month for Bosnia and Romania . |
| 2 | He should have been doing this a year or two ago , in the hope that extra jobs would have been created before now . |
| 3 | ‘ Even if there was no restoration going on the castle fire service should have been informed this stuff was being stored in the chapel . ’ |
| 4 | Traditionally the first window should have been opened this morning . |
| 5 | We are going through enormous changes in the education system at the moment and as Governors we have had to struggle terribly hard to learn how to govern schools as more power and more authority has been devolved to us , and we should have been spending this year erm working together on learning how to run a more successful school , and instead erm we 've had to waste a hell of a lot of time on really what was an absolute political nonsense and irrelevance , and I am glad we can turn aside from that . |
| 6 | Let's hope he or she cares about you enough to say , ‘ You know you should have called me earlier-you must have been holding this in for days ! ’ |
| 7 | Agnes said the words to herself , her mind telling her that this was the end of June and her sister must have been carrying this dreadful secret since … when ? |
| 8 | It might have been brewed this year , but I doubted it . |
| 9 | Could have been done this morning . |
| 10 | I had a fleeting thought of what fun it would have been to do this trip with Rosemary . |
| 11 | We would have been spared this ! ’ |
| 12 | The Review Panel would have had to try to persuade the court that complying with FRED 1 failed to give a true and fair view , and it would have been presenting this argument at the same time that companies generally were being compelled to comply with FRS 3 ( a not fundamentally revised version of FRED 1 ) in order to give a true and fair view . |
| 13 | Ms Harris ought to have been preaching this to her clients and taking note of it herself . |
| 14 | In about three years ' time all GM 's new cars will have been developed this way . |
| 15 | ‘ This tour , if it is allowed by the courts , will be the Barnes 's salvation ’ , said National Gallery director J. Carter Brown , ‘ because when it comes back from Paris and Japan , there will be many millions of dollars that will have been generated this way . |
| 16 | He is hopeful , therefore , that notice will have been taken this side of the Atlantic , not only by Augusta National at the Masters , but also by the United States Golf Association , who are the governing body of the American Open , and the United States PGA , with a mind to the PGA Championship . |