Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] [be] in [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He should have been in London . |
| 2 | The book should have been in Tollemarche 's only bookstore for several weeks ; however , when Hank casually sauntered in and asked for a copy , old Mr Pascall said it had not arrived . |
| 3 | Here , the failure to consult was material because if the community health council had been consulted when it should have been in May , 1992 , it might have helped to ensure that the commitment to transfer the unit to the new hospital remained until a satisfactory new home for the unit could be found . |
| 4 | Have n't you got him back yet ? did you say he was last heard of on the Silk Road and he should have been in Caledonia. ? oh dear ! and Boudicca 's got his legs ready . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | He should have been in Loudwater , Bucks , 30 miles away . |
| 7 | If to this is added the domestic tensions occasioned by Offa 's determination to secure the succession of his son , Ecgfrith , it becomes clear how highly charged the political atmosphere must have been in Offa 's last years . |
| 8 | Since , as will be seen , Molla Fenari had almost certainly gone to Egypt for further study by that date , it follows that if Husameddin is right , it must have been in Amasya that Molla Fenari studied under Cemaleddin Aksarayi . |
| 9 | He must have been in Mrs Wright 's house with Lee much longer than he 'd thought . |
| 10 | ‘ Otherwise we might have been in London , ’ Rab said . |
| 11 | From this point on he might have been in Oz for all he knew . |
| 12 | Part of it as far as I could see was in India that i India India 's actually got it 's quite a success story for development in a lot of ways . |
| 13 | It is not known where he learned his trade , but if it was not in Raunds it could have been in Cambridge , where a Thomas Grumbold ( d . |
| 14 | The EST freak , Boyd , said , as he took off his trousers and shook his penis at me , ‘ If I were n't white and middle class I 'd have been in Pyke 's show now . |
| 15 | It was two and a half years since she 'd seen her godchildren , Emma and Sophie , who 'd last been in England with their parents on a Christmas visit , staying with Sir David and Lady Wyndham . |
| 16 | Successful he may have been in October-December 1976 at using the full Cabinet as a forum for crisis management , but Callaghan was not tempted to extend the practice in more tranquil times . |
| 17 | Who else would have been in Mayall 's band at that time ? |
| 18 | To commemorate South Africa 's readmission to Test cricket , Coopers and Lybrand Ratings have published a list of what their world rankings would have been in March 1970 when South Africa played their last Test match . |
| 19 | That would have been in March 1952 . |
| 20 | The transport is also better , with the airport considerably closer than say it would have been in Manchester . |
| 21 | A couple of years ago this crowd would have been in Ralph Lauren from head to toe , but today there 's a mixture of Guess , Nautica , Tommy Hilfiger ( ‘ Tommy got the colours ’ ) , Fila and even Duck Head , an obscure Southern prep-wear firm . |
| 22 | The square piano , mentioned above , signed ‘ Gottfried Silbermann , fevr. 1749 ’ was probably made by Johann Gottfried , so Stein would have been in Strasbourg when this instrument with the German action but no escapement was finished . |
| 23 | If rage had been a fuel , Nora would have been in Waterford within the hour . |
| 24 | But it was not enough to give me a complex , not as it would have been in America . |
| 25 | Although he still speaks bitterly of the pressure put on him by the authorities , in fact they never succeeded in obliging him to send the children to school ; he was not even fined as he would have been in Britain . |
| 26 | The detective would n't be expecting two of them and , when Dana had been appearing as a model in London , Claudia would have been in Solihull . |
| 27 | Imagine what the result would have been in Salomon 's case if the company created was one of unlimited liability : all the members would have been personally liable for the debts owned by the company to the creditors . |
| 28 | Sitwell provides an extended description of the gardens as they would have been in Susanna Jennens 's lifetime , a summary of the more interesting volumes in the library , and a general inventory of the house from Dutch paintings to kitchen pewter . |
| 29 | But er I can remember being in Evay and a funeral there and to me it was very strange because they carried the coffin from the kirk right down to the kirkyard at the pier . |
| 30 | I can remember being in Australia and looking through magazines and seeing the names of the photographers who are now doing my shoots and thinking : ‘ Oh wow ! ’ |