Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] been [adv prt] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I should have been back at school in Nigeria . |
| 2 | 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 |
| 3 | He must have been around for years but I did n't know what his name was . |
| 4 | They must have been up at Cambridge about the same time . |
| 5 | 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 . ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | I could have been back on Hermaness in Shetland . |
| 8 | ‘ Without a replacement , the plant could have been out of action for months , reducing Torness 's productive capacity by half and costing the company a fortune in lost revenue . |
| 9 | Touch more , and you 'd have been off on episode three … |
| 10 | If Gesell had killed DeVore , they 'd have been back to square one . |
| 11 | The gate may have been down at Sanford Smith 's fourth annual Works on Paper exhibition in New York 's Park Avenue Armory from 3 to 5 April , but most of the participants had little to complain about . |
| 12 | Since Gundobad may have been out of step with the majority of his people and his family , his own beliefs should perhaps be connected with those of his uncle , the arian Ricimer . |
| 13 | But for that he would have got his sword out of its scabbard , and the fight they could not afford would have been on in earnest . |
| 14 | Jack Scamp had drawn a two-year plate of porridge for the assault on the Kent licensee and , as Malpass had said , would have been out with remission if he 'd kept his nose clean , in three months ’ time . |
| 15 | A Spanish paper would have given the game away and an English one would have been out of date . |
| 16 | If anyone else ran a yard of sixty flat-race horses like he did , they would have been out of business years ago . |
| 17 | Phillips what a wonderful ball that almost turned out be there because er Crosby had it not been a better defender would have been in behind Whitlow . |