Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] [be] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first pinnacle of his athletic achievement should have been at the Berlin Olympics in 1936 . |
| 2 | When we got home I was surprised to see Dad sitting in his usual seat because he should have been at work . |
| 3 | Yet here was her grandson fending for himself , leaning amiably against a kitchen cupboard and eating a self-made sandwich , while his mother gave infinite attention to food for women who should have been at home attending to their own children . |
| 4 | We should have been at Ardneavie ages ago . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ You should have been at the Washington gig at the 9.30 Club . |
| 6 | The only fascination is listening to a song that should have been at most ten seconds long and hearing some fool trying to get ten minutes out of it . |
| 7 | He should have been at the airport last evening to see Elsa Lawrence and her children off and the casket . |
| 8 | She should have been at home . |
| 9 | He should have been at boarding school , but his mother , who loved him very much , had brought him home for a month or two , because she thought his health was delicate . |
| 10 | It was a tragic irony for the Byzantines , and for Christian Europe , that the first Ottoman incursion into Europe , in 1345 , should have been at the invitation of one of the rulers of Constantinople . |
| 11 | The three boys should have been at school with their ragged clothes , crew cuts and sullen eyes . |
| 12 | Hindley Earnshaw should have been at Catherine 's burial yesterday , but he had been drinking so much that he could n't go . |
| 13 | ‘ I should have been at my parents ’ house an hour ago ! |
| 14 | My point of order is that , if the Government are having a difference with someone as important as a European Commissioner over such a substantial sum of European and public money , and with the charges that the British Treasury is laundering that money , surely a Minister should have been at the Dispatch Box today to make a statement . |
| 15 | It was the middle of the after noon , he should have been at work . |
| 16 | The Ministry of Reconstruction , the only potential co-ordinating body for post-war plans , was dismantled in June 1919 , just when it should have been at the peak of its activities . |
| 17 | It was about a week after my showdown with Quigley and I should have been at Harvest Festival . |
| 18 | He should have been at least booked in the first half , for a nasty and ‘ professional ’ foul . |
| 19 | They should have been at the scene in a quarter of an hour . |
| 20 | Saturday afternoon , I ought to have been at home it was three o'clock and I should have been at er , in Leicester then . |
| 21 | and what we doing now is London , London yesterday and you , you should have been at home today but he had to go back to London again so I did n't keep him very much , given up is it ? |
| 22 | However , Honderich himself throws up difficulties with regard to his third point , in that Conservatism must have been at least partly responsible for the ‘ decent ’ society he found when he arrived in Britain thirty years ago . |
| 23 | The image omitted almost constant service to the Sanusis ; it also omitted what must have been at least intermittent contact with the Turks . |
| 24 | It must have been at the very time of the proceedings against Myln that the archbishop of St Andrews received the earl of Argyll 's answers to his letter of admonition of 31 March 1558 , in which he warned the earl of the dangers of his support for Protestantism . |
| 25 | We had deduced there must have been at least four : . |
| 26 | There must have been at least 30 people at the summit that day , and at the sound of plastic and thin glass striking skull through wool , every head turned to see what would happen next . |
| 27 | ‘ Conceive what I must have been at fourteen , ’ he reminisced to James Gillman , his first biographer . |
| 28 | The letters must have been at least two feet in height and to do this job from a ladder , with only a young apprentice to hold it steady was quite a feat . |
| 29 | ‘ Though we knew by the place where he had fallen that it must have been at the very summit just as the path runs down the cliff to Kinghorn Manor . ’ |
| 30 | It must have been at that time that his habit of keeping notes on his travels began . |