Example sentences of "[vb mod] have been [prep] her " in BNC.
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| 1 | It should have been on her money but William was on a full grant at university . |
| 2 | It was short and straight , which was more than could be said for her mouth , which was curvy and rather wider than it should have been for her ashen , wedge-shaped face . |
| 3 | The intense tropical heat was debilitating and Eva was n't as wise as she should have been about her health . |
| 4 | Though since she had taken only one glass of wine , she knew that when everything should have been against her feeling in any way relaxed she must thank Ven , and his charm as a host , for the fact that she was feeling so entirely at ease with him . |
| 5 | " It should have been in her handbag , because the shopman said she did n't go on to the pillar-box to post anything . |
| 6 | Lord Justice Parker differentiated between liability of the car driver to her passenger , who must have been within her reasonable contemplation as being likely to be affected by her omission to remove her broken down car from the carriageway and any drivers who may have been proceeding in the opposite direction on the other carriageway . |
| 7 | She must have been in her late thirties then , but to me she seemed timeless . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Quite a little cracker in her day , she must have been in her late thirties now . |
| 10 | He met my mother when he was in his early thirties and she must have been in her teens . |
| 11 | I mean she must have been in her seventies . |
| 12 | When she might have been at her most useful , since she was so much more skilled in nursing than Annunciata , she was not allowed near Mrs Browning . |
| 13 | ‘ She looked comparatively young , but she might have been in her late thirties , signorina . ’ |
| 14 | It had opened the door to closer collaboration in the nuclear field , bringing substantial savings in research and development costs , and enabling Britain to retain and constantly modernize her independent nuclear deterrent in ways that otherwise would have been beyond her economic means . |
| 15 | If Hank had done something particularly dreadful , either Donna Frizzell or some other nosey parker would have been on her doorstep by now to tell her about it . |
| 16 | The girl would have been in her late twenties , early thirties , Newman estimated . |
| 17 | At five o'clock in the morning Ada Neumann would have been in her kitchen , simmering the dozens of doughnut-shaped rolls in hot water for a few minutes before baking them in the oven , glazing them with egg-white and then showering them with sesame seeds . |
| 18 | Dorothy looked determined rather than festive ; she would have been in her forties at the time but already stood as though planted , like an elderly woman . |
| 19 | The fact , however , that Britain linked herself to the German economy through the ERM meant that , far from conducting the opposite policies to Germany 's — which it would have been in her real interest to do — she had to follow suit . |