Example sentences of "he [vb mod] have [be] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He may have been off colour in the World Cup , but he had set a fine example to others . |
| 2 | A second and earlier poem Moliant Cadwallon ( ‘ In Praise of Cadwallon ’ ) , possibly by Cadwallon 's bard , Afan Ferddig , celebrates Cadwallon 's victorious progress against Eadwine ‘ the deceitful ’ after his return from Ireland , where he may have been in exile , though an alternative possibility is that he had been gathering reinforcements there . |
| 3 | When we got home I was surprised to see Dad sitting in his usual seat because he should have been at work . |
| 4 | It was the middle of the after noon , he should have been at work . |
| 5 | He should have been at boarding school , but his mother , who loved him very much , had brought him home for a month or two , because she thought his health was delicate . |
| 6 | In the forty third minute , Foyle volleyed wide from fifteen yards when really he should have been on target after receiving from Magilton , and as referee Taylor was looking at his whistle to blow it for half time , United skipper , Steve Foster drove forward from the edge of the penalty area , shrugged off a couple of challenges , hit a good low shot , seemingly under the body of Gosney , but Gosney 's body just halted the flow of the ball . |
| 7 | He should have been in bed , but it was breathlessly hot , and Richard , who was at home , had been irritated by his whining . |
| 8 | I often saw him wandering about in the fields and lanes or fishing in quiet reaches of the river when he should have been in school . |
| 9 | Watt , out for a sabbath stroll past the Golf-House on Glasgow Green when he should have been in church , had a flash of inspiration that was to change the lives of every man , woman , and bairn on planet earth . |
| 10 | I did n't want to get into soap opera conversation about it with him , but on the occasions that we did talk about it , both of us felt that someone , with perhaps a little more eye on reality , would have realised that he should have been in hospital and not at home unable to reach oxygen . |
| 11 | Improbable as it was , he must have been in love with her . |
| 12 | It 's really difficult for me to measure these sorts of things , but if you stop and look at him , he must have been in pain . |
| 13 | Some strange noises came from one of the children and Asik thought he must have been in pain . |
| 14 | He must have been in town after all . |
| 15 | Carlo and McGowan stood on either side of the embalmer , he might 've been in custody . |
| 16 | ‘ He might have been at bingo . ’ |
| 17 | This guy when he the policeman spoke to him afterwards , his words to the policeman Now let's bear in mind he might have been in shock . |
| 18 | That 's right , but Locke was turning it on , on occasion and and just could n't strike at all , except for the one wicket , if he bowled quicker and quicker he might have been in trouble . |
| 19 | He could have been at home to meet her . |
| 20 | Then having to kill forty minutes when he could have been in bed and now this : the delay in visiting the dry cleaner 's meant a vital piece of evidence might have been destroyed . |
| 21 | As I understood er Mr 's position , he would have been on behalf of the Parish Council who are the only er people who are concerned about this as I understand , who raised an objection at this er at this stage they they would have been quite happy with the proposition that I 've put forward on behalf of the County Council . |
| 22 | He would have been at home as a sixteenth-century Elizabethan , categorizing people according to their essential natures ; choleric , melancholic , mercurial , saturnine , qualities mirroring the planets that governed their birth . |
| 23 | Without the thriving Fish he would have been in debt . |
| 24 | As a schoolboy it was thought he would have been in line for an International cap had the war not prevented all that . |
| 25 | In his statement of claim the plaintiff admitted that since termination of the contract he had by reason of continuing to work within the insurance industry acted in such a way that , if the contract were still subsisting , he would have been in breach of clause 9A . |