Example sentences of "[modal v] have been [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Staff are angry at the thought the duck 's may 've been mistreated |
| 2 | ‘ She may 've been murdered , ’ said Constance . |
| 3 | It may 've been found already . ’ |
| 4 | Should 've been called ‘ I Missed The Charts ’ . |
| 5 | you know so erm so some er a lot more should 've been done about actually getting , even if it was just well I 'm in that area , I 'm in the area on such and such a day anyway so I can call in to see you . |
| 6 | ‘ You should 've been told already . |
| 7 | It 's him should 've been coming home tonight . |
| 8 | But in the old liberated areas like say around i i i in theory none of this should be necessary , very little of it should 've been happening . |
| 9 | So Madam I 'm asking you to say that these circumstances , this is the sort of case that should never have come before the court , it should 've been sorted out between the parties themselves , with the aid of their solicitors , and that it 's only the overreaction of the police in this particular circumstance that brings him before the court here . |
| 10 | Now going back into the Hebrew scriptures , you 'll find there that this sort of staying awake counsel , an idea was there long before the days of Jesus and the Apostles and people 's lives were involved in its state , even in those days , let's just let us have a look at one , Isaiah forty two eighteen to twenty now this terms it slightly different , but when you look at it and analyze it , you realize he 's talking about exactly the same thing , it 's regarding the nation of Israel who turned away from Jehovah , they were n't doing what they should be doing , or should 've been doing as he 's pleading with them look there , that look here , here you deaf ones , well we know the nation of Israel were n't all physically deaf , they were like we are , perhaps had a few deaf individuals amongst them , but |
| 11 | and what they did , and you were there , and you must 've been listening , what they did , percent for people , they moved it up to Policy and Resources , Policy and Resources percent for people came around , Councillor spoke . |
| 12 | she must 've been holding it in because she did n't wan na wipe her bum with her hand and then you know it just burst out before she could get to the toilet . |
| 13 | And suddenly he remembered standing here , it was dark-green all around him , but the sky above was blue , the sun must 've been setting , it was quiet , just the creak of a tree , the whir of an insect 's wing , he 'd been standing motionless , as if in a trance , and then he heard a voice , his mother 's voice . |
| 14 | ‘ I think it must 've been hit by a car , ’ he said . |
| 15 | They 'd dived , you see , but eventually they had to surface — the air must 've been getting bad — and up they came , drew nearly alongside a German destroyer the pack had left behind when they called off the hunt , waiting there , just in case Taureg surfaced . |
| 16 | Drivers must 've been celebrating too . |
| 17 | No but it must 've been talking about youngsters having cars |
| 18 | I said , ‘ What I told you before — you were dreaming , you must 've been dreaming , you know . |
| 19 | Yeah he must 've been following her about . |
| 20 | I just love the way that kid must 've been standing out there for what , fifteen minutes ? |
| 21 | Charlotte Keatley 's My Mother Said ] Never Should has been greeted with great acclaim by the male critical establishment who appear unable to apply their usual standards to the work of a young woman . |
| 22 | Confession had not been a factor in the slowness of Pétain 's promotion in the way that it had checked the career of Foch , de Castelnau and other ardent Catholics ; indeed , Pétain could boast that he had not been to Mass for thirty years , so on this score alone he should have been earmarked , as things stood , for rapid advancement . |
| 23 | In fiction , he thought , Alice and I should have been tormented by our joint knowledge , distrustful , guilt-ridden , unable to live apart yet miserable together . |
| 24 | The woman had not looked like a prostitute , besides which had that been the case Fedorov 's driver should have been taking a walk along the quay , or just sitting gazing tactfully ahead . |
| 25 | We should have been taking French or English , or something . |
| 26 | The UK took the view that it should have been based on Article 100 of the Treaty of Rome ( general harmonisation of national laws ) , which requires unanimity ( in which case the adverse vote of the UK could have prevented the Directive being adopted ) . |
| 27 | The dumb bastard who dreamed that one up should have been strung up by his balls . ’ |
| 28 | In fact , if the treatment really worked I should have been Elastoplasted all over . |
| 29 | If the treatment really worked I should have been elastoplasted all over . |
| 30 | He was the town naughty boy all right , and it was incongruous that he should have been named Wesley . |