Example sentences of "n't have [been] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The jury comes to a conclusion that er the police er took whatever degree of reasonableness was breached , that the raid should n't have been made on the day it was . |
| 2 | It could n't have been hit by a missile because we know there are no missile-carrying planes around — even if there were , a heat-seeking missile , the only type that could nail it at that altitude , would have gone for the engines , not the nose cone . |
| 3 | Elise ca n't have been mistaken about the tears . ’ |
| 4 | The school authorities were unsympathetic : the dinner ladies would only accept you into the school to see the nurse if you were on the point of death , + my teacher kindly informed me that I should n't have been running in the playground . |
| 5 | And he should n't have been going in the woods , should he ? |
| 6 | Dotty was n't at all sure the poor woman should n't have been left in the telephone box until the ambulance arrived , rather than carried by George across the square in a fireman 's lift under an old blanket , but Rose had convinced her that a scandal must be avoided at all costs . |
| 7 | Its owner is upset by what 's happened , but feels Mark should n't have been playing with the dog in the first place . |
| 8 | ‘ Mait wo n't have been heading for the dock , ’ Ace reasoned . |
| 9 | My father — who could n't have been described as a saint by anyone — worked on the docks by day , lived in the pub at night and came home in the early morning because it was the only place he could fall asleep without being disturbed . |
| 10 | This was underpinned by a dedication to the cause that could n't have been bettered by a pack of African Hunting Dogs . |