Example sentences of "he [modal v] [verb] [been] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Mind , 'e might 'ave been after all me little gels , they bein' 'ighly valuable . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ Jesus ’ as we have him may have been filtered through the patriarchal world which remembered him and wrote about him ( if the biblical authors were male ) . |
| 3 | With him may have been his father . |
| 4 | It 's him should 've been coming home tonight . |
| 5 | Well I I think its , the way that the plaintiff puts the case on that point my Lord is that even if the defendant Mr took the view er that it would not have been proper for such a notice to be served , in view of what the plaintiff was saying to him about his wish to get out of the contract , the fact that it was available to him should have been brought to his attention and then as Mr was saying that I sorry I do n't feel I can do this on your behalf because it 's not proper in the circumstances or whatever erm , should then have gone on to advise the plaintiff either to do it himself or to go and seek independent advice . |
| 6 | Whoever had called him must have been someone very powerful to make the head of the KGB jump like that . |
| 7 | Still less pleasing to him must have been the prospect that if his clerks ignored the order to jettison their excess cures of souls , they would suffer excommunication with all its attendant disabilities and interruption of his service . |
| 8 | In the Trocadero large quantities of objects were displayed in a crowded , haphazard fashion , and , while Picasso was undoubtedly overwhelmed by what he saw and experienced , the impression he carried away with him must have been of a very general , metaphysical kind . |
| 9 | Part of him would have been sorry to hear that she had been shot , or sentenced to a long term of imprisonment in the filth of an Austrian gaol . |
| 10 | As for Dennis , well , after that killing him would have been a kindness , would n't it ? |
| 11 | Which would have been doubly misleading for I had never felt more in search of company , nor indeed more indebted to Manhattan , the city without him being a great deal more like the city we had lived in together than anywhere else without him would have been . |
| 12 | He had no official status and no powers of arrest , but once he 'd identified Alina then the two officers along with him would have been able to detain her on immigration charges . |
| 13 | Now , in retrospect , she could see that marriage to him would have been a ghastly mistake , and that her reaction to discovering that he had been seeing other women while he had been engaged to her had had far more to do with wounded pride than with a wounded heart . |
| 14 | If only Morpurgo had been a less thoroughbred specimen the contrast with what had subsequently overtaken him would have been easier to accept . |
| 15 | He ought to have been off somewhere else on a shoot by now . |
| 16 | I suppose he ought to have been very practical , from that background , but nothing was further from the truth . |
| 17 | Then in his fifth year at the school , when he ought to have been aiming for his school certificate which was the next and essential passport for that golden educated future , he left abruptly to work as a haberdasher 's assistant in the local Co-operative store . |
| 18 | Alongside rich , corrupt and irresistible Sir Jack Falstaff is the young Prince Hal , wandering far from his true royal path , mixing with thieves and wastrels when he ought to have been studying to be a king . |
| 19 | He ought to have been reminded of their joint suffering before he committed his fault . |
| 20 | The magazine had been consuming too much of his time even though , ideally , he ought to have been devoting more to it . |
| 21 | For surely he ought to have been able to explain to Colonel Hope , to persuade Colonel Hope , to arrive at a gentlemanly agreement — and what precisely had Colonel Hope said ? |
| 22 | ‘ He ought to have been stopped from buying the paper in the first place , ’ he said . |
| 23 | He ought to have been over the moon at her suggestion that she leave him , but instead it seemed to have made him angry . |
| 24 | According to one report , he told a group of journalists that he believed he ought to have been given the interim presidency . |
| 25 | Is it so likely that that man , however much he may have been struck by your beauty and gaiety , Miss Jonathan , would have at once decided to assassinate your future husband ? ’ |
| 26 | ‘ Besides , he may have been driven over the edge by her carryings-on . |
| 27 | He may have been missed on 96 by Morris , low at mid-wicket ; Morris may have decided that sections of the crowd would riot if he held it . |
| 28 | And Rosenberg : ‘ Utterly misguided he may have been , but he was honest in his own belief in what he was doing . ’ |
| 29 | But since he is Sir Anthony 's choice he may have been harmed by the Meyer candidacy . |
| 30 | He may have been right , in his day . |