Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] [be] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even the soldiers in the field must 've been thoroughly sick of all those whining pieces about Our Boys and Girls , and their mail , or the endlessly recycled nonsense about how hard it was to be a female soldier in Saudi Arabia . |
| 2 | He must 've been dead eighteen years . |
| 3 | And when I came back , Bobby I gave Grant they and erm he must 've been pretty desperate because he did a wee wee before we left and he did a wee wee before |
| 4 | And your sister 's ten years older than you so they must 've been there ten years plus , must n't they ? |
| 5 | you , you must 've been there ten years plus . |
| 6 | Yeah , he 's , he 's into ev oh it must 've been about six or eight weeks ago he started saying a couple of things and I thought oh he 's coming now , but it stopped I think I got excited when he started saying dark , but that 's as far as it got , int it ? |
| 7 | It was and yet , I 'm losing my thread with , what I was going to say was , it must 've been so important because an in that you could get anything you liked . |
| 8 | so they must 've been fairly sure of their support to allow them to come into an area of villages . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Everybody says , ‘ Oh , you won £44,000 in the world championships , you must 've been really pleased with that , ’ but it 's not just the money , it 's being able to pick up the trophy at the end — that 's the nice thing . |
| 11 | So , she starts quizzing me and I start nattering on about the bloody Brontes — I think Mrs Fleming must 've been really intelligent when she was young , honest-to-god she was firing them at me faster than Bamber Gascoigne , she says to me : ‘ And tell me , Karen , how are you going to deal with the themes of Repressed Sexuality in the Brontes ' work ? ’ |
| 12 | Vagueness was resorted to by the judge in Jenkins v Reid in order to explain why a reformulation of a clause was unacceptable and in Gledhow Autoparts Ltd v Delaney [ 1965 ] 1 WLR 1366 Dankwerts LJ criticised the phrase " districts in which the traveller had operated " as being too vague especially as instructions given as to where he should work were purely oral . |
| 13 | The profession should stop being so defensive , he told participants at the Scottish Institute 's annual conference in St Andrews last month . |
| 14 | ‘ To win the next General Election , we must stop being so darned nice . ’ |
| 15 | But at the same time we must preserve the rights of the voluntary carers , and any guidelines must avoid being too prescriptive ’ , she says . |
| 16 | Also the way in which he decides whether MD should die is very flippant . |
| 17 | She played down her abilities , fluffed tasks that should have been childishly simple . |
| 18 | But that neither scene nor season favoured fear , I should have been superstitiously afraid . |
| 19 | It should have been just one of those stories one dines out on afterwards , only the wretched woman thought I was being deliberately insulting and complained to the Management . |
| 20 | It should have been downhill all the way for retired Shetland Pony Selwyn , instead it turned out to be downbeat . |
| 21 | The trunk of the lights should have been marginally taller , the spread of their branches carrying the individual bulbs broader . |
| 22 | What should have been equally obvious to the assemblymen was the fury they were thus provoking , including megaphonic demonstrations by the opposition Democratic Progressive party to coincide with the students ' protests . |
| 23 | This should have been plainly ridiculous to the Elizabethan audience . |
| 24 | The thing is should have been nearly seventy five hundred . |
| 25 | In any case , it seems inevitable that the development of the mechanical clock should have been primarily due to the Church for , although the transmission of power by rope and pulley had long been known to craftsmen , the mathematics of gear-trains ( particularly astronomical trains ) was known only to the highly educated , and their education was provided only by the Church . |
| 26 | I says , You should have been here five minutes ago , we did a marvellous job . |
| 27 | ‘ You should have been here last week , ’ Bob continues . |
| 28 | Any ideas on that score swiftly evaporated , however , when his glance suddenly shot to hers , and she was on the receiving end of his piercing eyes as , ‘ According to this , you should have been here last Friday ! ’ he charged . |
| 29 | The best thing they could say about London was , ‘ you should have been here ten years ago ’ . |
| 30 | One day when the driver arrived at ten minutes past ten an angry customer berated him : ‘ You 're late , you should have been here ten minutes ago ! ’ |