Example sentences of "[pron] [modal v] have [be] in [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I must have been in shock . |
| 2 | But I could n't tell my mother or father because I should have been in bed by that time . |
| 3 | So how did I come to be in the car in the middle of the night when I should have been in bed sound asleep ? |
| 4 | I should have been in Ken Hurren 's office and now be back in my own , absorbed once again in assessing the department 's performance , noting perhaps the promptness with which I myself had channelled work to the appropriate division . |
| 5 | I might have been in bed with measles when I went to school , but nothing else . ’ |
| 6 | If I 'd come when you first asked me , I might have been in Saracen for an entire month : I 'd probably have no job to come back to . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ My house has been broken into , my sister and I could have been in danger and all you 're concerned about is whether or not I would have shot the bastard who did it . ’ |
| 8 | I think if I 'd opened my mouth to say something irrelevant or personal to myself I would have been in jeopardy . |
| 9 | Others , myself among them , are not convinced that Cromwell was the sole architect of the Privy Council , which may have been in part the consequence of his fall rather than of his predominance . |
| 10 | New courses appear every year to compete with those which are already on the market ( some of which may have been in use for many years ) and which are quite successful in their various ways . |
| 11 | A tail-steady , which should have been in place under a hard point before work started , was about 6″ out of position . |
| 12 | The sensual appraisal was mixed with a hint of amusement which could have been in response to her apparent coyness , or perhaps her short-skirted dress with its modest round neckline was the cause , its clash of riotous colours outrageous , orange running into scarlet into crimson with small touches of hot pink . |
| 13 | You see you may have been in sales but in advertise this is erm |
| 14 | They picked up scores of children who should have been in class , and found that many stay away from school with their parents ' knowledge and consent . |
| 15 | Alternatively , you must have been in charge of a yacht for at least a week , perhaps on Villa-Flotilla . |
| 16 | She must have been in love with Ven even then without knowing it . |
| 17 | The thought did come to his mind a week or so later that she might have been in love with him , but it seemed a ludicrous idea as well as self-congratulatory , and he put it by . |
| 18 | And Les said I ca n't believe this he said , I he said if you 'd have been in business ten years that I could understand but he said to do it your first |
| 19 | If the sergeant had caught you there , you 'd have been in trouble because you were n't flogging the beat . |
| 20 | That evening , though , their ragging had distressed her and but for Colonel Hope 's intervention , she would have been in tears . |
| 21 | Janet adds : ‘ Before the idea of the ‘ drop-in ’ centre , we would have been forced to admit the mother and she would have been in hospital for a few days . |
| 22 | ‘ In May next year she will have been in remission for five years , ’ explains her mum . |
| 23 | ‘ Otherwise we might have been in London , ’ Rab said . |
| 24 | From then on Leeds showed some good attacking play but thankfully Bright is a donkey who gets caught off-side alot or we 'd have been in trouble ( Newsome and wetherall look dodgy to say the least ) . |
| 25 | They picked up so much more corn that — if I were to leave them — they 'd have been in trouble in no time . |
| 26 | I would have thought they 'd have been in touch about extending the guarantee through you . |
| 27 | We all knew why : left with Mum they would have been in pawn before we had the chance to wear them . |
| 28 | ‘ I would have thought they would have been in contact by now , ’ said secretary David Bowen . |
| 29 | In the May heatwave my feet were considerably cooler and less sweaty than they would have been in leather boots . |
| 30 | Not available on h , housewives , unless they can prove that they would have been in employment , would have been , erm , that they will have been |