Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] been [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We should have been on TV after all . |
| 2 | You should have been on stage two minutes ago . |
| 3 | You should have been on duty . ’ |
| 4 | So if the law was clear that in those circumstances they should have been on notice and should have therefore watched where the money was going , there would n't have been a problem and are we not saying that legitimate stock lending which I think is what is about is suggesting , if carried on properly on the market , would be all right , but if it immediately goes off market into the back doors and back rooms and people ca n't see what 's going on and the Financial Institutions take part in that , then they are doing something that un undoubtedly is probably going to cause loss to pension funds and should n't there be a clear law which makes them liable in those circumstances . |
| 5 | So if the law was clear that in those circumstances they should have been on notice and should have therefore watched where the money was going , there would n't have been a problem and are we not saying that legitimate stock lending , which I think is what Good is abou is suggesting , if carried on properly on market , would be all right , but if it immediately goes off market into the back doors and back rooms and people ca n't see what 's going on and the financial institutions take part in that , then they are doing something that un undoubtedly is probably going to cause loss to pension funds and should n't there be a clear law which makes them liable in those circumstances . |
| 6 | In the forty third minute , Foyle volleyed wide from fifteen yards when really he should have been on target after receiving from Magilton , and as referee Taylor was looking at his whistle to blow it for half time , United skipper , Steve Foster drove forward from the edge of the penalty area , shrugged off a couple of challenges , hit a good low shot , seemingly under the body of Gosney , but Gosney 's body just halted the flow of the ball . |
| 7 | When we got home I was surprised to see Dad sitting in his usual seat because he should have been at work . |
| 8 | It was the middle of the after noon , he should have been at work . |
| 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 | The three boys should have been at school with their ragged clothes , crew cuts and sullen eyes . |
| 11 | It was about a week after my showdown with Quigley and I should have been at Harvest Festival . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | She should have been at home . |
| 14 | 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 ? |
| 15 | I watched a world that should have been behind glass and yet I was the one who was behind glass and reality was theirs . |
| 16 | Watt , out for a sabbath stroll past the Golf-House on Glasgow Green when he should have been in church , had a flash of inspiration that was to change the lives of every man , woman , and bairn on planet earth . |
| 17 | I often saw him wandering about in the fields and lanes or fishing in quiet reaches of the river when he should have been in school . |
| 18 | But I could n't tell my mother or father because I should have been in bed by that time . |
| 19 | He should have been in bed , but it was breathlessly hot , and Richard , who was at home , had been irritated by his whining . |
| 20 | So how did I come to be in the car in the middle of the night when I should have been in bed sound asleep ? |
| 21 | This organization was not always as efficient in fact as it should have been in theory . |
| 22 | They picked up scores of children who should have been in class , and found that many stay away from school with their parents ' knowledge and consent . |
| 23 | I did n't want to get into soap opera conversation about it with him , but on the occasions that we did talk about it , both of us felt that someone , with perhaps a little more eye on reality , would have realised that he should have been in hospital and not at home unable to reach oxygen . |
| 24 | A tail-steady , which should have been in place under a hard point before work started , was about 6″ out of position . |
| 25 | It is strange therefore that the signal box instruments revealed it as clear , the signal must have been at green , or had a heavy weight been lying across the signal wire ? |
| 26 | Nathan must have been on deck all night . |
| 27 | It was n't long before I got caught shoplifting again so I was back on remand at Low Newton — I think I must have been on remand there about eight times . |
| 28 | The winner must have been beyond price . |
| 29 | You know , it is a pressure job and Terry must have been under pressure today because if we 'd have beaten them , then you know their season would have crumbled . |
| 30 | I told you I sleep in that chair , did n't I ? — It must have been about midnight because I 'd just watched this film and that did n't finish until half eleven . |