Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] been in [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | , take some photographs of car parks , should of been there weeks ago and she and you have to be ready for , she should have been in this week how he 's going to get them to do that , there 's a train , there 's a er few hours service or what , it 's gon na cost a bomb And he 'll probably end up paying for it cos he I do n't know whether he 's doing it or not , it 's what he should of been doing . |
| 2 | Cheques should have been in last week . |
| 3 | Aaron 's mother , Lesley , 26 , said : ‘ He was very calm and must have been in great pain . |
| 4 | You must have been in full-time employment for a fixed time before you can claim ? |
| 5 | Well , I must have been in first year juniors . |
| 6 | This being must have been in some way necessary to humanity , it is inconceivable that this is not so , for surely there would have been evidence of at least one enduring civilisation that had neither ‘ god ’ nor temple . |
| 7 | Must have been in this room when I got here . |
| 8 | By the middle of 1802 , as the family house and shop passed into other hands , Ben was left alone with only sisters for company ; Elizabeth , the eldest , had very recently married , and little brother must have been in imminent danger of succumbing to the petticoat government of Mary and Sarah . |
| 9 | Said it 'll have been in all day . |
| 10 | Otherwise he might have been in serious trouble . |
| 11 | If his controller had taken her seriously , he might have been in real trouble . |
| 12 | The moonless sky was overcast , and gliding into an opaque blackness we might have been in outer space . |
| 13 | The end result might only be a slight scratch , but the potential might have been in that situation for something a lot worse . |
| 14 | Ours went , I think , to 2 , 5 and 7 ; the other floors might have been in another building , or another town . |
| 15 | The tightly packed schiltrons might have been in some danger if the enemy 's Welsh archers had been used at once ; but Edward or his advisers thought they could settle things swiftly by an all-out cavalry charge . |
| 16 | I realized that I could have been in deep trouble there : I came close to inflicting a serious injury on Frank Dick . |
| 17 | The company came in for quite a bit of stick with their new version of the Escort and if the Mondeo had not been well received they could have been in real trouble . |
| 18 | She had said it was her niece because the girl was young and had black hair and because who else but Nora Fanshawe could have been in that car with her parents ? |
| 19 | I do n't think that chair could have been in that book Brian . |
| 20 | Carr , who went the distance with Wharton last time , protested about the stoppage , after 2min 7sec of the eighth round , but if referee Dave Parris had allowed the fight to continue the Australian could have been in serious trouble . |
| 21 | If it had been left any longer he could have been in serious trouble . |
| 22 | At the time of the lobby revolt , ‘ No one could have been in any doubt that if they went over to [ the rebel papers ' ] side , they would cook their goose with Number Ten . ’ |
| 23 | Yet he got off to a good start against New Zealand , and no one in England could have been in any doubt that even without Lloyd around their heroes were in for a tough time . |
| 24 | There was a small desk , a lined pad , a tea mug holding a pencil and two pens , a stack of train and airline schedules , and a few pieces of personal clutter that could have been in any room in the house . |
| 25 | Erm , although I think Helena Landless could have been in this tradition do n't you ? |
| 26 | I have been most concerned by reports that some students may have been in temporary difficulty at the start of the current term because their grant cheques have not arrived from certain authorities . |
| 27 | Their interest may have been in Sardinian copper or Etruscan tin ; the Minoans needed tin to make bronze , and the sources of their raw materials are unknown . |
| 28 | So it 's a bit frightening when you think a pensioner 's money may have been in that account at thirteen fifty on a , on ten thousand invested , and now they 're down to seven hundred . |
| 29 | The third wing , which united the other two , possessed heated rooms which may have been in common use . |
| 30 | An argument for the co-evolution of dispersers and their trees is that they , in contrast , avoid the seeds , though in the past such seeds may have been in some way indigestible , promoting the relationship of today . |