Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] [be] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 A method which you may prefer is to pre-record your commentary section-by-section onto a sound tape ; this tape is not cued , and the sections follow each other with gaps of only a second or so between them .
2 The other reason is that there are at least some rules for judging advertisements , but most of these are based firmly in the objectives which the ads are trying to achieve : if we do not know what the objectives are , any judgement we may make is without a real foundation .
3 But final-stage rockets had misfired before , and at a time when people were whispering about a change of prime Minister and the shake-out that would bring , the very last thing Sladen must want was to be caught up in a brawl between Number 10 , the Foreign Office , Defence and the secret services .
4 ‘ It should 've been with the batch of papers given .
5 Think I should 've been with you .
6 I told him it must 've been about the Royal Garden Party .
7 There must 've been with erm in forty seven was it the encirclement campaign where they allowed the nationalists to sort of drive through the , I do n't know the defences , they must 've been fairly certain of their support in certain areas by then .
8 Jackson must 've been under the effects of the anaesthetic after a nose job to come out with something so bad .
9 I begin to get some idea of what the Roman games must 've been like . ’
10 Reason they 're mixed up he , he must 've been in there messing about with them .
11 But then I , I , it 's unfortunate that you had your first I mean someone who had no experience of headmastership , head , head teachers , I mean all the head teachers I should think are in financial problems this year cos it 's really there first full year
12 One of the first-time buyer discounts that Martin should consider is from Abbey National .
13 The one position he or she should avoid is of being a kind of co-conspirator with the politician against the legitimate interests of the audience and that , it has seemed to me lately , is an increasingly easy trap to fall into .
14 It can , therefore , be seen that the first test which the pursuer must meet is in relation to liability .
15 And the question of allergy doctors I must confess is outside my remit .
16 ( e ) The charge should have been under s.15 of the Act , obtaining property by deception .
17 It seems odd at first sight that Celsus senior should have been of this view , and odder that he managed to persuade Ducenius Varus ( consul in AD 95 ) and his colleagues that it was the correct one .
18 But then I put two pounds , which should have been off Linda 's .
19 I should have been on my guard .
20 Smith should have been on the bench for London 's game against the Midlands last Saturday but had to drop out with the same complaint .
21 Smith should have been on the bench for London 's game against the Midlands last Saturday but had to drop out with the same complaint .
22 He should have been on a real high , but you can never tell with Seve .
23 You should have been on the plane back from her hol — sorry , charity visit — in Florida last week .
24 We should have been on TV after all .
25 ‘ They will have a point to prove to me that they should have been on the tour .
26 You should have been on duty . ’
27 It should have been on her money but William was on a full grant at university .
28 The inner door has a large mosquito net , although I did feel the mesh should have been on the outside of the door flap so you could keep bugs out .
29 The boat was just as it should have been on the night of the murder and had not been .
30 By the way , I am convinced that the black girl who joined us should have been on the cultural induction course next door .
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