Example sentences of "i [modal v] [verb] [been] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Saturday afternoon , I ought to have been at home it was three o'clock and I should have been at er , in Leicester then . |
| 2 | I must have been with the vet for an hour but the driver was still waiting to take me home . |
| 3 | ‘ Conceive what I must have been at fourteen , ’ he reminisced to James Gillman , his first biographer . |
| 4 | the way Val talks I think I must have been at something else . |
| 5 | I must have been at , well I 'm sure it was at home . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | I must I must have been I must have been on good form that day |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | I must have been in shock . |
| 10 | 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 ! |
| 11 | Well , I must have been in first year juniors . |
| 12 | Think I should 've been with you . |
| 13 | I had two when I first came here , but erm , one came as a stray but this one I 've got is a lovely little er ginger and white one he 's , he 's about somewhere but he 's just gone out I should imagine been on the si sitting on the sideboard |
| 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 . |