Example sentences of "he [vb mod] [vb infin] [be] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | A second and earlier poem Moliant Cadwallon ( ‘ In Praise of Cadwallon ’ ) , possibly by Cadwallon 's bard , Afan Ferddig , celebrates Cadwallon 's victorious progress against Eadwine ‘ the deceitful ’ after his return from Ireland , where he may have been in exile , though an alternative possibility is that he had been gathering reinforcements there . |
| 3 | He may have been in his forties and driving either a grey , silver or light metallic-coloured car . |
| 4 | I did n't want to get into soap opera conversation about it with him , but on the occasions that we did talk about it , both of us felt that someone , with perhaps a little more eye on reality , would have realised that he should have been in hospital and not at home unable to reach oxygen . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Watt , out for a sabbath stroll past the Golf-House on Glasgow Green when he should have been in church , had a flash of inspiration that was to change the lives of every man , woman , and bairn on planet earth . |
| 7 | He was actually addressing God when he should have been in the water . |
| 8 | He should have been in London . |
| 9 | He should have been in Loudwater , Bucks , 30 miles away . |
| 10 | He should have been in bed , but it was breathlessly hot , and Richard , who was at home , had been irritated by his whining . |
| 11 | I often saw him wandering about in the fields and lanes or fishing in quiet reaches of the river when he should have been in school . |
| 12 | Reason they 're mixed up he , he must 've been in there messing about with them . |
| 13 | He must have been in Mrs Wright 's house with Lee much longer than he 'd thought . |
| 14 | It 's really difficult for me to measure these sorts of things , but if you stop and look at him , he must have been in pain . |
| 15 | Improbable as it was , he must have been in love with her . |
| 16 | So he must have been in |
| 17 | He must have been in town after all . |
| 18 | ‘ Nice of you , ’ said Gerald Seymour-Strachey , flashing at him those miraculously even teeth , and looking every inch the debonair squire of dames he must have been in his youth . |
| 19 | Some strange noises came from one of the children and Asik thought he must have been in pain . |
| 20 | But I did feel sorry for the man who was trying to get out cos he must have been in there for ages . |
| 21 | Well it must be ten years ago when he worked for the B B C and that , he must have been in his late twenties then |
| 22 | Carlo and McGowan stood on either side of the embalmer , he might 've been in custody . |
| 23 | He might have been in the mill . ’ |
| 24 | This guy when he the policeman spoke to him afterwards , his words to the policeman Now let's bear in mind he might have been in shock . |
| 25 | Julia knew that he might have been in the room while she was unconscious , but his absence during her times awake began to fret her . |
| 26 | If his controller had taken her seriously , he might have been in real trouble . |
| 27 | Otherwise he might have been in serious trouble . |
| 28 | He might have been in a rush , with a car badly parked or a taxi ticking . |
| 29 | From this point on he might have been in Oz for all he knew . |
| 30 | That 's right , but Locke was turning it on , on occasion and and just could n't strike at all , except for the one wicket , if he bowled quicker and quicker he might have been in trouble . |