Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] been [adv] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was twenty to eleven when you said goodbye to Hatton and Pertwee and even walking none too fast you should have been indoors at home by eleven . |
| 2 | Herluin saw him , and uttered a wordless cry , rather of vexation than surprise or alarm , for by this time the steward should have been home in Ramsey , all his booty safely delivered . |
| 3 | No Dawn you should have been there with Shaun , Shaun match her . |
| 4 | They should have been safely under lock and key . |
| 5 | He had n't counted on the opposition of Hugh de Tracy 's priestly brother , who should have been safely at home in his monastery , where he could n't cause any trouble . |
| 6 | The invitation must have been largely in terms of a general specification involving basic designs and performance , for the prices varied greatly , depending on the type of hauling gear and the amount of sophistication of the secondary equipment . |
| 7 | ‘ Kiwis are nocturnal birds — so that means you must have been there at night . |
| 8 | It , too , must have been there for years . |
| 9 | It must have been there for years , abandoned to the plunderers , an illicit plaything for the local children , a welcome shelter for the occasional vagrant like the seventy-year-old alcoholic who had stumbled on the body . |
| 10 | They must have been there for years . ’ |
| 11 | It must have been there since breakfast . |
| 12 | ‘ He 'll have been there since lunchtime like as not . |
| 13 | There were some irreverent proposals to perform the ultimate experiment and try injecting material extracted from Ungar 's brain into his critics — a human trial that I suspect Ungar himself might have been rather in favour of ! |
| 14 | Eleanor Bell ( d.1827 ) has a scarlet velvet upholstered elm case which , with its cherub grip-plates , might have been equally at home in the 1720s were it not for the idiosyncratic decoration of the lid . |
| 15 | He might have been more at home in some of the radical Protestant sects that began to appear in England and — later — in America during the seventeenth century . |
| 16 | Perhaps the Thunderbird 's one-sided peghead might have been more in keeping with Gibson 's bold step into the next century . |
| 17 | She could have been here with Gran . ’ |
| 18 | She wished he could have been here for Christmas . |
| 19 | This was Elm Road , a street in Walton , but it could have been anywhere in Liverpool or Bootle . |
| 20 | How long Joe had been in the marsh she did not know , but it was a very lonely spot , and he could have been there for hours and hours — perhaps even all through the night , thought Cheryl . |
| 21 | Dortmund 's less than a hundred miles , mostly by Autobahn , so you could have been there by midnight . |
| 22 | Nothing could have been less in keeping with the architect 's original intentions . |
| 23 | I was there If I 'd have been there to July , that year that I moved there , I would have been there twenty five years , on that road . |
| 24 | Telepathic communication , for us still the domain of science fiction or fringe experimentation , may be part of a dolphin 's daily life , and may have been so for centuries . |
| 25 | He is one of the two architects ever to have held this position twice , but this may have been more in recognition of his wealth and status as an MP , and for his interest in the organization of the profession , than for his abilities as an architect . |
| 26 | ‘ It would have been just like Chris to hide the Grimoire down there , ’ Donna said , pointing towards the abyss beyond the steps . |
| 27 | ‘ It would have been just like Jean to have gone along for the journey . ’ |
| 28 | If the line of the Gallery was maintained then the exit to La Scala would have been equally off line . |
| 29 | ‘ Parts of the old Norman church still remain , ’ Esme explains , ‘ so would have been here in Cadfael 's day The church features in Sanctuary Sparrow and again in Eye Witness , where the blind old Welshman , Rhodri Fychan , begs by the west door . |
| 30 | Although the first half had been surprisingly passionless , it was Liverpool who were easily the better side , and had Ronnie Rosenthal seized three opportunities , they would have been comfortably in front by half time . |