Example sentences of "he [vb mod] have been at " in BNC.
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| 1 | When we got home I was surprised to see Dad sitting in his usual seat because he should have been at work . |
| 2 | He should have been at the airport last evening to see Elsa Lawrence and her children off and the casket . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | It was the middle of the after noon , he should have been at work . |
| 5 | He should have been at least booked in the first half , for a nasty and ‘ professional ’ foul . |
| 6 | Most of them do it , he must have been at it quite a bit . |
| 7 | ‘ He might have been at bingo . ’ |
| 8 | He could have been at home to meet her . |
| 9 | The idea , however , that the rebels aimed to kill the King is unlikely — not only did the rebels show a positive loyalty to him at Mile End and Smithfield , and adopt as a watchword ‘ King Richard and the True Commons ’ , but they made no attempt to take vengeance on him for the death of Wat Tyler , when he could have been at their mercy . |
| 10 | He would have been at the Crystal Palace too , willing me on to my first AAA Championship title , revelling in the rivalry , matching the best of the youngsters from Haringey . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | If he had been told that the prime sources of his immense and , mathematically , infinitely expanding wealth were invariably polluted with the deceits and bad faith of exploitation , cruelty , oppression , barbarism , murder and vicious wrongdoing , he would have been at first amazed , then outraged and finally contemptuous , disbelieving the information . |
| 13 | And he came down he would have been working for he would have been at that time my great grandfather maybe or and he came down and he lived in lower Millfield after that and just as soon as he was out of his house , they just had the house demolished . |