Example sentences of "[modal v] have been [verb] [prep] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | He says the precinct should have been covered over years ago . |
| 2 | But with the Official Custodian sending back these investments , the trustees will have to think of what they should have been thinking about years ago : management of their trust funds . ’ |
| 3 | And what 's impressive is they 're doing research that we should have been doing for years ! |
| 4 | You might have been driving for years by going over the top of the wheel as a lot of lorry drivers do . |
| 5 | It is interesting to think that had they snatched — or preferably caught cleanly — that victory , the pattern of English Test cricket might have been changed for years ahead , for , as the other four matches were all drawn , a victorious first series might have given Botham 's captaincy the shove it needed to get airborne . |
| 6 | You have got to train that person which you could have been doing for years and |