Example sentences of "[vb mod] have been [prep] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | Will Douglas should have been with them , for he was Sheriff of Teviotdale . |
| 2 | Katharin McMILLAN wife of DUNCAN McKENZIE should have been with them but by that time was dead . |
| 3 | Mrs. Bidwell , the cleaner , should have been with them twenty minutes ago . |
| 4 | But it was the thought of how things should have been between them . |
| 5 | He must have been with them all the time from Corry , to Raasay , to Kingsburgh , to Dunvegan : ‘ a fellow quite like a savage ’ — and they were followed , ‘ as colts follow passengers upon a road ’ , by local lads , barefoot , ragged , lazy and not wholly unmenacing . |
| 6 | What a tragedy that must have been for them all . |
| 7 | At that time , grape varieties were n't exactly classified , but Chardonnay , for instance , could have been among them . |
| 8 | if property is equalized then the economy will so he uses some sort of incentive argument here and maybe some sort of undertones here that inequalities are necessary to make the worse off better off than they would have been without them , but he thinks the uneducated poor may well be too stupid |
| 9 | Thanks to the presence of Scottish Hydro-Electric 's storage dams in the hills , the flow passing Perth on 18 January was in fact materially less than it would have been without them . |
| 10 | ‘ The ideal thing would have been for them to keep to their offer of a two-year deal and I would have signed it before the final . |
| 11 | The greatest relief was that I had n't called in on my way down or I would have been with them . |
| 12 | Indeed : if even boys were really to be left on an island I do not think that Simon would have been amongst them ; he is very much a symbol rather than a character , and represents the force of good in Golding 's book . |
| 13 | This pension replaces your SERPS ; and the DHSS will assume that you are receiving at least as much as you would have been from them ( you might be , but you might receive much less — there are no guarantees ) . |
| 14 | Right now the best are Arsenal and it 's just a pity they 're not in one of the European competitions , because my money will have been on them to win it . |