Example sentences of "[vb mod] have been [adv] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He must 've been dead eighteen years . |
| 2 | And your sister 's ten years older than you so they must 've been there ten years plus , must n't they ? |
| 3 | you , you must 've been there ten years plus . |
| 4 | Yeah , he 's , he 's into ev oh it must 've been about six or eight weeks ago he started saying a couple of things and I thought oh he 's coming now , but it stopped I think I got excited when he started saying dark , but that 's as far as it got , int it ? |
| 5 | It should have been just one of those stories one dines out on afterwards , only the wretched woman thought I was being deliberately insulting and complained to the Management . |
| 6 | The thing is should have been nearly seventy five hundred . |
| 7 | I says , You should have been here five minutes ago , we did a marvellous job . |
| 8 | The best thing they could say about London was , ‘ you should have been here ten years ago ’ . |
| 9 | One day when the driver arrived at ten minutes past ten an angry customer berated him : ‘ You 're late , you should have been here ten minutes ago ! ’ |
| 10 | The money should have been there four-and-a-half years ago when we needed it most . |
| 11 | Mrs Zamzam 's land should have been only 25 minutes ' drive across the international frontier . |
| 12 | As argued earlier , for prevalence to have risen to over 1,000 in 1984–5 from a very low baseline in 1979 and a major acceleration in the incidence rate around 1982–3 , annual incidence for the five agencies must have been over 400 during 1984–5 , compared with nearer 300 in 1985–6 . |
| 13 | It must have been nearly 5 o'clock when , having finally got the cars across that ferry , we eventually drove into Martigues in dazzling late afternoon sunshine to see the fishing boats come in . |
| 14 | She must have been nearly seventy . |
| 15 | It must have been nearly three months before I heard from Mrs Ainsworth , and in fact I had begun to wonder at the bassets ' long symptomless run when she came on the phone . |
| 16 | She must have been nearly forty years of age , tall , thin and plainly dressed . |
| 17 | And he must have been nearly ten minutes ! |
| 18 | The young lady doctor had said ten minutes , but they must have been here twenty . |
| 19 | He must have been about seventeen and was so-pale and thin he looked as if a gust of wind might blow him away . |
| 20 | ‘ When they had that first trouble , Anna finding out about the prince and carrying on as if it were the end of the world , Constanza must have been about five or six ; she does n't even remember ; Mena does , every minute of it . |
| 21 | He must have been about five . |
| 22 | I 'd read an article by Jon Mendlesohn in Rolling Stone , which emanated from a trip he took to Los Angeles the year before , which must have been about 1970 , that said that there was this guy who did weird songs and dressed up in dresses . |
| 23 | Father was given the rod by friends at West Linton , near Edinburgh , and it must have been about fifty years old at least , when it came into my possession . |
| 24 | He must have been about fifty summers old , his copper-coloured face was lined , his swept back hair silver-grey , but the moustache and the neatly clipped beard still showed traces of a golden youth . |
| 25 | While visiting Wilton Abbey to see his prospective bride , Count Alan saw another lady who must have been about thirty years of age . |
| 26 | There must have been about twelve of us . |
| 27 | I must have been about twelve , I suppose . |
| 28 | I must have been about six or seven at this time . |
| 29 | It must have been about two yards deep and three yards across . |
| 30 | When I was about eleven , he must have been about fourteen or fifteen , and he decided to take up the concert flute — so he suggested that instead of us staying on tin whistles , we should all take up different instruments . |