Example sentences of "[pron] [modal v] [verb] [be] [prep] [noun] " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | I must have been in shock . |
| 4 | It was about a week after my showdown with Quigley and I should have been at Harvest Festival . |
| 5 | But I could n't tell my mother or father because I should have been in bed by that time . |
| 6 | 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 ? |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | I might have been in bed with measles when I went to school , but nothing else . ’ |
| 9 | 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 . ’ |
| 10 | There was an immediate loss of power and all I could do was to crash-land the aircraft . |
| 11 | So all I could do was to prance about waving flashcards and realia like a second-rate conjuror at a children 's party , and try not to glance at my watch more than once a minute . |
| 12 | Last night as I 'm going to sleep all I could smell was like ashtray , you know ! |
| 13 | Or like the time when you say , right out loud , that 's it , I could have been at home sleeping . |
| 14 | As a result , I spent a lot of time in training — sometimes a whole afternoon — when I could have been at school . |
| 15 | I only wish I could have been with Mr Grant when he researched the feature . |
| 16 | ‘ My house has been broken into , my sister and I could have been in danger and all you 're concerned about is whether or not I would have shot the bastard who did it . ’ |
| 17 | The only work I could find was with Clive 's main sharp-end competitor , a school offering short courses to businessmen on company accounts . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | ‘ If they had not arrived by Wednesday lunchtime , I 'd have been off home , ’ he said . |
| 20 | well if I 'd known enough company she said , I 'd have been at home with me feet up |
| 21 | I if I 'd have been at Jacksons I , I 'd have gone back today . |
| 22 | And erm what I 'd like is for Dennis is to explain a little about how far we 've actually got with the C E D G approach to the introduction of I S O Nine Thousand . |
| 23 | I think if I 'd opened my mouth to say something irrelevant or personal to myself I would have been in jeopardy . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Oh , more more than that , because I was , I I can remember being in school |
| 26 | 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 ! ’ |
| 27 | The first house that I can remember was on Road . |
| 28 | Erm the questions you were asking just now were testing a possible implication that this policy is so weak in general , no no not weak , so general in its application that it really does n't get in the way , it 's testing that kind of hypothesis , and erm all I can say is from experience in North Yorkshire that , even without this policy since nineteen eighty , the county has been using its assertion of its need to protect the countryside generally as its policy position to stop things happening outside towns and villages and that with this policy in place we could see that a general position of the county maintained and then reinforced . |
| 29 | The complete absence of information makes it very difficult to uncover the processes of change which may have been at work among the peoples north and south of the Trent during the reign of Eadwine , but it is inconceivable that Eadwine was able to extend his hegemony southwards without first achieving domination of the Mercians . |
| 30 | Others , myself among them , are not convinced that Cromwell was the sole architect of the Privy Council , which may have been in part the consequence of his fall rather than of his predominance . |