Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] [be] [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He must 've been dead eighteen years . |
| 2 | And your sister 's ten years older than you so they must 've been there ten years plus , must n't they ? |
| 3 | you , you must 've been there ten years plus . |
| 4 | I says , You should have been here five minutes ago , we did a marvellous job . |
| 5 | Any ideas on that score swiftly evaporated , however , when his glance suddenly shot to hers , and she was on the receiving end of his piercing eyes as , ‘ According to this , you should have been here last Friday ! ’ he charged . |
| 6 | ‘ You should have been here last week , ’ Bob continues . |
| 7 | One day when the driver arrived at ten minutes past ten an angry customer berated him : ‘ You 're late , you should have been here ten minutes ago ! ’ |
| 8 | The best thing they could say about London was , ‘ you should have been here ten years ago ’ . |
| 9 | should have been here this morning |
| 10 | The money should have been there four-and-a-half years ago when we needed it most . |
| 11 | ‘ You should have been there last Saturday night . |
| 12 | I should have been more entertaining company . ’ |
| 13 | Mrs Zamzam 's land should have been only 25 minutes ' drive across the international frontier . |
| 14 | It must have been nearly three months before I heard from Mrs Ainsworth , and in fact I had begun to wonder at the bassets ' long symptomless run when she came on the phone . |
| 15 | She must have been nearly forty years of age , tall , thin and plainly dressed . |
| 16 | And he must have been nearly ten minutes ! |
| 17 | All I can say about that is that it must have been awfully feeble acid to make your visions come out so pedestrian as this . |
| 18 | This usually put Dad to rights but must have been pretty potent stuff as it ceased to be available after the war . |
| 19 | ‘ Must have been pretty weighty things , Shannon . |
| 20 | A publisher is eligible for membership when they publish fifteen titles , ten of which must have been commercially exploited land they must all have been written by PRS writer members ) . |
| 21 | I wondered how these men had managed to endure thirty or more trips in what must have been far worse conditions than this ; in bad weather , being shot at , having to concentrate on map reading and peering through bomb sites , and watching out all the time for enemy fighters . |
| 22 | He must have been about fifty summers old , his copper-coloured face was lined , his swept back hair silver-grey , but the moustache and the neatly clipped beard still showed traces of a golden youth . |
| 23 | Father was given the rod by friends at West Linton , near Edinburgh , and it must have been about fifty years old at least , when it came into my possession . |
| 24 | While visiting Wilton Abbey to see his prospective bride , Count Alan saw another lady who must have been about thirty years of age . |
| 25 | It must have been about two yards deep and three yards across . |
| 26 | ‘ My father tied with another man at an Old Newton furrow-drawing match : both had a quarter-inch deviation — it must have been about sixty years ago . |
| 27 | It must have been about four years ago we 'd come . |
| 28 | The date must have been about 12 May . ’ |
| 29 | The water came up to my cross-bar of my bike so it must have been about three feet deep . |
| 30 | No she still buys smooth erm I remember I must have been about three years old , it was when we were still up North and mummy was dashing out , it was breakfast time and she go easy on the peanut butter , there 's hardly any left . |