Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] been [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It must 've been fifteen foot at least up in the air teetering on a top branch . |
| 2 | We moved to Somerset and I saw nothing of Matt for — I do n't know — it must 've been sixteen years I suppose . |
| 3 | now there , there must 've been one reason why you chose Friends Provident . |
| 4 | So that would have been point two five which should have been fifteen minutes . |
| 5 | According to aviation officials the A-300 should have been 1,500 feet higher at the point where it crashed into a jagged mountain face . |
| 6 | That should have been six times nought point two over |
| 7 | Well we had to keep somebody on watch in case there was any damage , say the ship was up the river and a chain broke or they hit you , so you had to put your navigation lights up and to put navigation lights up we had hurricane lamps , we had a red and a white one , they should have been six foot apart , they never were they was about three foot . |
| 8 | There were ten tables , so there should have been ten runners , but only three started . |
| 9 | At precisely what date he went is difficult to determine , for although Ibn Hajar states that he went to Egypt in 778/1376–7 , he follows this immediately with the statement whereas in fact Molla Fenari should have been twenty-seven years of age at that date according to the birthdate given by Ibn Hajar himself . |
| 10 | On a comparison of populations there should have been 4,500 houses built in Derry but only 3,000 had , in fact , been built . |
| 11 | He states however that the fuel was computed at that point and it was determined that there should have been 1,300 lbs remaining on arrival over Goose Bay , giving a reserve of twenty-five to twenty-seven minutes holding at 20,000 feet altitude . |
| 12 | And she went on a party of three , no , no , she went with a party of four friends I think , there were five of them altogether and er she stayed for well er , three nights , four days , or four days , three nights I ca n't remember no , it must have been four days , four nights , three days . |
| 13 | So I 'm zooming down , which I thought must have been fifty mile an hour , but it was probably only about five really , or ten , but er put the brake on for the platform to stop , no chance , it just kept going . |
| 14 | An anonymous telephone call to the police must have been one option ; but that seemed unlikely because in that case the police would already be here . |
| 15 | ‘ It must have been one hell of a party . |
| 16 | This must have been one hell of a shock , and you 're overwrought , that 's all . |
| 17 | ‘ By the time the doors opened there must have been 100 people . |
| 18 | Charlie heard the words , ‘ Carry on , Sergeant-Major , ’ and a moment later a man who must have been six feet six inches in height , and whose beer-barrel chest was covered in medal ribbons , took a pace forward . |
| 19 | Although my father was six foot two , Geoffrey Archer seemed a real giant ; he must have been six foot four and broad in proportion , but he was a kind giant , having an instinctive sympathy with small boys . |
| 20 | He must have been six foot four , with a frame to match . |
| 21 | It must have been six months ago , when he started stealing money from his uncle . ’ |
| 22 | The wave must have been fifteen feet high . |
| 23 | The thing — it must have been five metres across — rippled its flanges invitingly and eased right to where we stood . |
| 24 | There must have been 5,000 head corralled into convoy formation by a quartet of big black dogs . |
| 25 | But Malcolm Brodie , who must have been 80 yards away and looking at the player 's back , could say the goal was quite rightly disallowed . |
| 26 | It must have been two month old . |
| 27 | Finally he suggested that Mr Hancock must have been 180 degrees off-course . |
| 28 | There must have been twenty men on the back of the lorry in masks and carnival costumes . |
| 29 | She had never been on a train before and the speed , which must have been twenty miles an hour , made her as excited as a child . |
| 30 | It is the singular most difficult shot in golf — he must have been 50 yards from the pin with a soft lie and he had all the trap to clear . |