Example sentences of "he [vb mod] have been [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The magazine had been consuming too much of his time even though , ideally , he ought to have been devoting more to it . |
| 2 | ‘ He ought to have been stopped from buying the paper in the first place , ’ he said . |
| 3 | Then in his fifth year at the school , when he ought to have been aiming for his school certificate which was the next and essential passport for that golden educated future , he left abruptly to work as a haberdasher 's assistant in the local Co-operative store . |
| 4 | According to one report , he told a group of journalists that he believed he ought to have been given the interim presidency . |
| 5 | Alongside rich , corrupt and irresistible Sir Jack Falstaff is the young Prince Hal , wandering far from his true royal path , mixing with thieves and wastrels when he ought to have been studying to be a king . |
| 6 | He ought to have been reminded of their joint suffering before he committed his fault . |
| 7 | He and his men had killed three Germans in this house when he burst into a back room and was probably killed by a fourth German hiding there , although he may have been hit from across the street . |
| 8 | Or he may have been stripped to delay any identification , I suppose . |
| 9 | He was associated with the Augustinian abbey of Scone and the Scottish chapel royal at Stirling ; the addition ‘ alias arnat ’ to his signature , which occurs three times in the manuscript , suggests that he may have been related to David Arnot , archdeacon of Lothian and later bishop of the chapel royal . |
| 10 | His parents have not been identified , though he may have been related to a family of Purneys in Buckinghamshire . |
| 11 | He may have been conducting a formal press conference in very informal dress at a most abnormal time . |
| 12 | It was June ; it was Bexhill-on-Sea ; he may have been reading the county scores . |
| 13 | But he may have been wearing a dark ski cap of the Deerhunter style . |
| 14 | But he may have been wearing a dark ski cap of the Deerhunter style . |
| 15 | He may have been wearing a green bomber jacket . |
| 16 | ‘ I believe he may have been trying to contact me . |
| 17 | As we were paying our visit at the end of the morning , he may have been dressed ready for the office . |
| 18 | He may have been drunk , but his participation was not serious . |
| 19 | He may have been influenced by his early days as a teenager in Cairo with his uncle or during his time in Hamburg . |
| 20 | He may have been influenced by the views of the parliamentary reformer Major Cartwright who at this time was on an organisational subcommittee . |
| 21 | Thereafter he may have been engaged in wholesale dealing in corn and wool , though it is more probable that he continued to lend money under the guise of advancing money against future payment of commodities . |
| 22 | If this reconstruction is sound , Oswiu 's encounter with Fín occurred at about the time that he may have been seeking Irish support against the forces of Penda . |
| 23 | He may have been missed on 96 by Morris , low at mid-wicket ; Morris may have decided that sections of the crowd would riot if he held it . |
| 24 | Is it so likely that that man , however much he may have been struck by your beauty and gaiety , Miss Jonathan , would have at once decided to assassinate your future husband ? ’ |
| 25 | He may have been inspired by the fact that the choristers of Magdalen College , Oxford , sing a Latin hymn at the top of the tower there to greet May Day . |
| 26 | When he ‘ resigned ’ as a BBC radio producer in 1986 , he may have been pushed , but it was the start of a freelance career guaranteed to outrage the good citizens of Britain with a style of comedy that ranges from the macabre to the indecent . |
| 27 | He may have been connected with the Pemyll family of Egerton . |
| 28 | He may have been christened Henry but he 'll certainly be known as ‘ Hairy ’ . |
| 29 | He may have been joking , but his fatalistic sentiment was in the sane vein as a cruel remark made as Davies 's men departed in triumph : ‘ We understood Eastbourne were the only team who have not applied for a postal vote in the General Election . ’ |
| 30 | Sidney Lee in his life of Shakespeare , 1908 edition , attributes his accurate use of legal terms to observation of his father 's legal battles and early association with members of the Inns of Court and there is also a suggestion that on his arrival in London he may have been employed as a clerk for a lawyer . |