Example sentences of "have been [verb] by now " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mair said : ‘ If the answer to that question were known , no doubt the appointment would have been made by now . |
| 2 | I suspect he would have been rewarded by now had a private conversation of his on a car telephone not been picked up and leaked a couple of years ago . |
| 3 | The deal would have been done by now but for Venables 's reservations about playing two penalty-area sniffers together without an orthodox No. 9 to provide an aerial target . |
| 4 | The exercise must be done and should have been done by now . |
| 5 | If he had not been called away it would have been done by now . |
| 6 | They would certainly have been missed by now . |
| 7 | ‘ He 'd have been gone by now , sir , but the little devil 's been playing us up . |
| 8 | Should have been gone by now whe great thanks ever so much there you go . |
| 9 | He 'd have been retired by now on a modest pension leading a life of genteel poverty in Brighton or Torquay . |
| 10 | If there is a difference , ordinary managers should have been sacked by now . |
| 11 | A dispute with Telecom engineers is holding up the company 's first link in London , and Mercury 's first inter-city line — which should have been operating by now — will not open until next year . |
| 12 | It is sad that heparin and aspirin were not invented in the late 1970s ; if they had been , good trials might have been concluded by now ! |
| 13 | All his memoranda had been circulated and should have been digested by now . |
| 14 | Yes this colourful expedition requires rather more than the obligatory three points of contact , but it 's well worth seeking out , despite the alarm bells which may well have been triggered by now in the more squeamish reader . |
| 15 | Well — if she had taken kindlier to her a year ago , we might have been wed by now , and I would have escaped the list . ’ |
| 16 | Only a few weeks ago , she would have been stumped by now . |
| 17 | Early plums should all have been picked by now , although ‘ Marjorie 's Seedling ’ will be ripe from mid-September . |
| 18 | so erm er or indeed it may be if , if you ask him or if you ask in the general office it may of erm tt it may have it may have been marked by now and so er |
| 19 | If he had gone to anywhere but scum , he would have been off-loaded by now . |
| 20 | Mackenzie had no doubt that the masks and the clothes they wore would have been discarded by now . |
| 21 | ‘ If I know that club , they 'll have been stolen by now . ’ |
| 22 | They ought to have been eliminated by now , or is there a mutation that continues to crop up from time to time ? |
| 23 | Also , a hotel room would remind her of that first night they had spent together ; what happened then had been repeated by now many times . |
| 24 | I would have thought that most things have been tried by now and I would not imagine that there are many other avenues to be followed . |