Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] [be] [adj] [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | now there , there must 've been one reason why you chose Friends Provident . |
| 2 | D' you remember I showed you a manuscript — it must 've been some years ago , now — purporting to be by some mariner who remembered an English cargo boat having gone down between us , here at Møn , and Malmo — during the First Schleswig War ? |
| 3 | Well we had to keep somebody on watch in case there was any damage , say the ship was up the river and a chain broke or they hit you , so you had to put your navigation lights up and to put navigation lights up we had hurricane lamps , we had a red and a white one , they should have been six foot apart , they never were they was about three foot . |
| 4 | It must have been six months ago , when he started stealing money from his uncle . ’ |
| 5 | The thing — it must have been five metres across — rippled its flanges invitingly and eased right to where we stood . |
| 6 | There may have been cases where the acquisition of the wrappers conferred no direct benefit on the Nestle Co. , but there must have been many cases where it did . |
| 7 | Surely there must have been many others equally clinching . |
| 8 | But Malcolm Brodie , who must have been 80 yards away and looking at the player 's back , could say the goal was quite rightly disallowed . |
| 9 | It must have been several dances later that she noticed Annie standing on the edge of the dance floor . |
| 10 | I 'd been teaching in Preston it must have been three years then , and when I read that book I suddenly realized I knew nothing about Lancashire at all — not the real Lancashire . |
| 11 | She attended the funeral so I guess there must have been some contact there . |
| 12 | there must have been some money there first . |
| 13 | Yeah , cos it was you with erm well it must have been some years ago . |
| 14 | It must have been weird lying there . |
| 15 | He said slowly and dangerously , ‘ I daresay I might have been four bob down at the end of an evening . |
| 16 | There might have been some difficulty there because of Giles ‘ s position , because of the conflict of interest . |
| 17 | What a shame just Mickey again out on the right hand side , Dean made a great diagonal run in behind the full back and the ball was just a little bit heavy otherwise there could 've been real danger again for Blackburn . |
| 18 | Their relationship was civilized and uncomplicated , and she wished it could have been that way too for Vi and Jane . |
| 19 | Typically , 20 or 30s was required for a full evaluation using all the equations , though processing could have been ten times as quick with an 80287 fitted . |
| 20 | Just as , er just as well you did n't go out because erm you could have been half way out there in the plane or whate when erm |
| 21 | If it 'd depended on my father we 'd have been dead years ago . |
| 22 | This body of evidence is not strong , for Adam was capable of error and there may have been other reasons why the Maldon army had a Northumbrian hostage ( even assuming that the poem is reliable ) and Æthelred a Northumbrian wife , quite unconnected with the absence of Second Hand dies from northern mints . |
| 23 | This may have been one reason why the national body was , in the first instance , entitled the Committee for Local Authority Higher education and presumably why its membership includes a representative from the Association of Principals of Colleges , a body broadly representative of those further education establishments other than polytechnics and colleges and institutes of higher education . |
| 24 | At that time the Particular Baptists were meeting in a private house and it may have been that fact rather than family disagreements on doctrinal issues which led to her being baptized at Netherfield Independent chapel on 6 August 1817 . |
| 25 | Liverpool may have been five goals up from the first leg , but this was never going to be an easy game in 70-degree heat and on a typically bumpy Mediterranean pitch . |
| 26 | There may have been free kick there . |
| 27 | Whatever justification there may have been 600 years ago for riot and revolt , there was never such justification today . |
| 28 | Metaphysics would have been one way out , but he ca n't take that , so the alternative is to be a persecuted prophet . |
| 29 | It 's never a good idea to get too involved with a colleague , but there would have been practical problems anyway . |
| 30 | ’ If we were still in our own country , Andreas , a man like you would have been married years ago and you would have many children to delight you in your old age . ’ |