Example sentences of "he [vb mod] [adv] [verb] [be] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He may also have been behind certain elements of the design . |
| 2 | I must confess , my dear Fanny ( his sister ) , that I found your judgement of him was inadequate ; perhaps , too , he may not have been in the mood for playing when you heard him , which is probably often the case ; but I was again enchanted by his playing , and I am convinced that if you , and Father too , had heard some of his best things in the way he played them to me , you would say the same . |
| 3 | ‘ Well — if he hated the massacre , he should not have been at the battle . ’ |
| 4 | For a start he should n't have been on the table . |
| 5 | By rights he should n't have been in the race at all . |
| 6 | ‘ Now I find out he should never have been on the road . |
| 7 | He should never have been in prison . |
| 8 | He had been moving slowly , and the street was dark … but he should still have been in view … should n't he ? |
| 9 | It was an insignificant point in its way , for Harry knew from Marjorie Mallender that Clare had met Minter whilst at Oxford — he must simply have been at another college — yet somehow his faith in his own reasoning was undermined . |
| 10 | Why , Edward wondered , did Brackenbury speak yesterday of being off-duty on Thursday when he must already have been on the point of resigning his post ? |
| 11 | Well the Solicitors turned round and said to him that there 's a twenty five per cent chance he 'll lose his licence , but then he 'll get there erm , but most he 'll probably get is about a month , and then he said , well surely your job could find you something to do in that time , has said , no licence , no job , so what he had to do was to . |
| 12 | He sounded so close he might almost have been in the next room instead of the other side of the Atlantic ocean . |
| 13 | Dad shook his head so violently , he might almost have been in pain . |
| 14 | If what he told Rose was true , he could n't have been at the belvedere after about a quarter to nine . |
| 15 | Had he been caught or had he panicked he could well have been in very serious trouble : the charming young tearaway could have become a court case . |
| 16 | But bedtime was at the usual time and , though Francie returned very late , he was slightly drunk so he could not have been to church . |
| 17 | Since the marks on Mary 's body were not necessarily inconsistent with Thornton 's claim that she had consented to sexual intercourse , and since the times on the morning in question when Thornton was seen walking home to Bromwich suggested he could not have been with her when she met her death , the jury found him not guilty . |
| 18 | So too did many others , on both sides of the Pennines , not all of them obeying the mischievous hints of Captain Goldsborough , of course — since even he could not have been in so many places all at once — but intent on stirring up trouble nevertheless . |
| 19 | The Captain was freer than he could ever remember being in his whole career . |
| 20 | Not that he could ever have been in her bed , at least not at Leamings . |
| 21 | Noel Blake was kicked out for exactly the same reason — he could nt handle being in a squad . |
| 22 | He 'd never have been like that in the old days . |
| 23 | If I have really understood Dr de Pomiane aright , 1 fancy that while an extravaganza such as Maitre Guérard 's Ali Baba would not have met with his unqualified acclaim , with many of the nouvelle cuisine innovations he would surely have been in sympathy . |
| 24 | On the other hand , it is conceivable that he would not have been in a position to appreciate the differences very clearly . |
| 25 | Reluctantly , Charlotte agreed , even though she was sure he would already have been in touch with them in such an event . |
| 26 | He would n't have been on this airwell at the time , though . |
| 27 | He 'd passed his last medical , otherwise he would n't have been on board . |
| 28 | But he 's still involved in the design industry — or he would n't have been at the Olympia exhibition , would he ? ’ |
| 29 | We I wonder how quick they would have got him in though if he would n't have been in a private scheme . |
| 30 | Do you think if he 'd been sent into hospital earlier he would n't have been in such a |