Example sentences of "[pron] [modal v] have [been] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was survived by his widow and seven sons and five daughters , some of whom may have been from his previous marriage . |
| 2 | Some of them must have been on there . |
| 3 | And there was the beds that was there there was beds were still in that bothy and there was there were three of them must have been in the bed you see , and then there was a a board that they slipped in half up the bed and there was a a mattress or whatever on that and another three on that . |
| 4 | I must have been with the vet for an hour but the driver was still waiting to take me home . |
| 5 | ‘ Conceive what I must have been at fourteen , ’ he reminisced to James Gillman , his first biographer . |
| 6 | the way Val talks I think I must have been at something else . |
| 7 | I must have been at , well I 'm sure it was at home . |
| 8 | It was n't long before I got caught shoplifting again so I was back on remand at Low Newton — I think I must have been on remand there about eight times . |
| 9 | I must I must have been I must have been on good form that day |
| 10 | We had another narrow escape , and for years afterwards Father would go red with embarrassment when the subject was mentioned : ‘ I must have been off my head , ’ he would mutter ashamedly . |
| 11 | I must have been in shock . |
| 12 | And I must have been in a really funny mood , and I said yes we have it 's on the till and he went well I suggest you get them in the windows then ! |
| 13 | Well , I must have been in first year juniors . |
| 14 | I should have been on my guard . |
| 15 | I should have been on the following flight to bring you back . |
| 16 | ‘ I should have been at my parents ’ house an hour ago ! |
| 17 | It was about a week after my showdown with Quigley and I should have been at Harvest Festival . |
| 18 | Saturday afternoon , I ought to have been at home it was three o'clock and I should have been at er , in Leicester then . |
| 19 | But I could n't tell my mother or father because I should have been in bed by that time . |
| 20 | So how did I come to be in the car in the middle of the night when I should have been in bed sound asleep ? |
| 21 | I should have been in Ken Hurren 's office and now be back in my own , absorbed once again in assessing the department 's performance , noting perhaps the promptness with which I myself had channelled work to the appropriate division . |
| 22 | ‘ I might have been on the train that hit him ! |
| 23 | In normal times , I might have been on the next flight out and by morning Miss Schlegel — a schoolgirl , yes , but what a schoolgirl , probably tanned , certainly firm and bouncy , and unquestionably an amateur theologian of weird and savage genius — would have found herself thickly slathered in Noxzema Regular Protective Shave Formula and roped to a groyne . |
| 24 | If I 'd come when you first asked me , I might have been in Saracen for an entire month : I 'd probably have no job to come back to . ’ |
| 25 | I might have been in bed with measles when I went to school , but nothing else . ’ |
| 26 | In fact , afterwards the doctor told me that the training had probably helped and that I might have been in a lot more serious trouble if I had not been so fit . |
| 27 | I can honestly say I ca n't remember a show I definitely did n't like doing , although I might have been in some that did n't turn out as I though they would . ’ |
| 28 | Or like the time when you say , right out loud , that 's it , I could have been at home sleeping . |
| 29 | As a result , I spent a lot of time in training — sometimes a whole afternoon — when I could have been at school . |
| 30 | I only wish I could have been with Mr Grant when he researched the feature . |