Example sentences of "i [modal v] have [be] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I may have been out of the arena for a while , but I daresay there are still some who remember the old gladiator . ’ |
| 2 | I must have been out of my mind … |
| 3 | I must have been out of my mind . |
| 4 | I should have been back at school in Nigeria . |
| 5 | I should have been back at the office . |
| 6 | The previous night I had got carried away , talking at length to the press and television when I should have been back in our quarters calming down , relaxing and getting some sleep . |
| 7 | I could have been back on Hermaness in Shetland . |
| 8 | She did not respond to this , but stared at him , until he spoke again , saying , ‘ I 'd have been along before now , but I heard about me father the very day when we last spoke , and so I had to go off straightaway to Newcastle . |
| 9 | My own memory is vivid : it was a bitterly cold morning , below - 14° , and the ground I trod , in which only days before I would have been up to my knees in mud , was as solid as rock . |
| 10 | Jackie had had that all done and then I would have been in for my cup of tea . |
| 11 | Well I know I know is the only one that realised I would 've been more shocked if had yeah I would have been out on the pavement here whistling with a banjo whistling Dixie there you are that one no not yet no . |