Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] [be] [adv] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Time and time again he will charge for the snags which are in range , including some of which you may be unaware , or others you may think are out of range . |
| 2 | It was twenty to eleven when you said goodbye to Hatton and Pertwee and even walking none too fast you should have been indoors at home by eleven . |
| 3 | Herluin saw him , and uttered a wordless cry , rather of vexation than surprise or alarm , for by this time the steward should have been home in Ramsey , all his booty safely delivered . |
| 4 | No Dawn you should have been there with Shaun , Shaun match her . |
| 5 | They should have been safely under lock and key . |
| 6 | He had n't counted on the opposition of Hugh de Tracy 's priestly brother , who should have been safely at home in his monastery , where he could n't cause any trouble . |
| 7 | I should have been back at school in Nigeria . |
| 8 | Erm , yeah just let me make sure I can get a baby sitter , it just depends what mum and dad are up to , I know they should have been out on Friday night |
| 9 | He must have been around for years but I did n't know what his name was . |
| 10 | The invitation must have been largely in terms of a general specification involving basic designs and performance , for the prices varied greatly , depending on the type of hauling gear and the amount of sophistication of the secondary equipment . |
| 11 | They must have been up at Cambridge about the same time . |
| 12 | ‘ Kiwis are nocturnal birds — so that means you must have been there at night . |
| 13 | It , too , must have been there for years . |
| 14 | It must have been there for years , abandoned to the plunderers , an illicit plaything for the local children , a welcome shelter for the occasional vagrant like the seventy-year-old alcoholic who had stumbled on the body . |
| 15 | They must have been there for years . ’ |
| 16 | It must have been there since breakfast . |
| 17 | I think it must have been out of doors , because what I recall most is the way she seemed to dwindle on planes of blue . ’ |
| 18 | " She 'll enjoy being back at school with girls of her own age , " Louise quietly observed to Nenna . |
| 19 | ‘ He 'll have been there since lunchtime like as not . |
| 20 | There were some irreverent proposals to perform the ultimate experiment and try injecting material extracted from Ungar 's brain into his critics — a human trial that I suspect Ungar himself might have been rather in favour of ! |
| 21 | Eleanor Bell ( d.1827 ) has a scarlet velvet upholstered elm case which , with its cherub grip-plates , might have been equally at home in the 1720s were it not for the idiosyncratic decoration of the lid . |
| 22 | It did n't happen , which had nothing to do with the state of mind we might have been in after Jonathan , but everything to do with another independent channel showing a related subject . |
| 23 | He might have been more at home in some of the radical Protestant sects that began to appear in England and — later — in America during the seventeenth century . |
| 24 | Perhaps the Thunderbird 's one-sided peghead might have been more in keeping with Gibson 's bold step into the next century . |
| 25 | She could have been here with Gran . ’ |
| 26 | She wished he could have been here for Christmas . |
| 27 | This was Elm Road , a street in Walton , but it could have been anywhere in Liverpool or Bootle . |
| 28 | How long Joe had been in the marsh she did not know , but it was a very lonely spot , and he could have been there for hours and hours — perhaps even all through the night , thought Cheryl . |
| 29 | Dortmund 's less than a hundred miles , mostly by Autobahn , so you could have been there by midnight . |
| 30 | I could have been back on Hermaness in Shetland . |