Example sentences of "he [vb mod] have be [verb] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thereafter he may have been engaged in wholesale dealing in corn and wool , though it is more probable that he continued to lend money under the guise of advancing money against future payment of commodities . |
| 2 | Prop Grant Wilson will be seeking to emulate the deeds of his Boroughmuir colleague , Peter Wright , who was also third choice in the eyes of the selectors for the French game in Paris , but who then went on to prove he should have been selected in the first place . |
| 3 | Prop Grant Wilson will be seeking to emulate the deeds of his Boroughmuir colleague , Peter Wright , who was also third choice in the eyes of the selectors for the French game in Paris , but who then went on to prove he should have been selected in the first place . |
| 4 | Davies arrived home at the time he should have been competing in the Olympics . |
| 5 | He must have been born in the middle ‘ thirties , when hunger was already rampant . |
| 6 | The third time she saw it Allen was with her but he must have been looking in the wrong place , for he did n't see it although she did n't understand how that could be . |
| 7 | But , fully clothed , he must have been reading in the sitting-room — or maybe he had just come in — when he too had heard the sound of a car crash . |
| 8 | He must have been hiding in the back room behind the stage all the time . |
| 9 | And he must have been testin' in part fur flight refuellin' because Rodriguez says in his book he was refuelled somewhere over the Bellingshausen Sea , which is a long way west of the area where Sunderby lost his life . ’ |
| 10 | He must have been lurking in the church hall , though I could n't see him properly in that dark corner . |
| 11 | So he must have been caught in the meantime and sent back . |
| 12 | Rolle also hints that he might have been damaged in some way . |
| 13 | In repose Biff 's arm hung in mid-air ; he might have been recuperating in a wing of the Apothacarion with his limb in traction … |
| 14 | If Harbury had heard the story Pascoe had just related , he might have been confirmed in his belief that it was possible . |
| 15 | At Oxford Crown court Mr Lanaghan denied he could have been mistaken in identifying Spencer . |
| 16 | He could have been done in by some thug who was after the money in his pockets . |
| 17 | ‘ I suppose he could have been done in somewhere else and then carted up there . ’ |
| 18 | " Of course , he could have been put in somewhere on the flood and been carried upstream and then down again . |
| 19 | " There are places up there where he could have been put in all right without attracting too much attention . " |
| 20 | The possibility that the unfortunate young gentleman was waylaid seems inescapable ; he was , however , in possession of little , if any , money to attract the attention of would-be malefactors , and that he could have been attacked in broad daylight , in the middle of a city the size of Vienna , appears to us virtually incredible . ’ ' |
| 21 | It was held that Williams was not guilty , since had the facts been as he believed them to be , he would have been acting in defence of the other . |
| 22 | They say he should have waited around like a good boy , taken a few duff , even Duff fights , and he would have been rewarded in due course by boxing 's power brokers . |
| 23 | If he had been born in England he would have been put in care by now . |
| 24 | In the case of Monsieur Blondel , the first two categories may safely be eliminated : had he been a boy , he would have been identified in the livret as a ‘ page ’ , as were other boys who sang in the ballets . |
| 25 | for he will have been acquitted in any event . |