Example sentences of "[modal v] [vb infin] [be] [prep] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But then I put two pounds , which should have been off Linda 's . |
| 2 | We should have been at Ardneavie ages ago . ’ |
| 3 | Hindley Earnshaw should have been at Catherine 's burial yesterday , but he had been drinking so much that he could n't go . |
| 4 | So , I think that in the opinion of Miller the family was the most important thing for B. and should have been for Eddie and all parents , but the priority for Catherine was her own life and I think that as far as Miller is concerned she is right , because she has a whole future ahead of her while B. and Eddie have settled down . |
| 5 | He should have been in London . |
| 6 | The book should have been in Tollemarche 's only bookstore for several weeks ; however , when Hank casually sauntered in and asked for a copy , old Mr Pascall said it had not arrived . |
| 7 | Here , the failure to consult was material because if the community health council had been consulted when it should have been in May , 1992 , it might have helped to ensure that the commitment to transfer the unit to the new hospital remained until a satisfactory new home for the unit could be found . |
| 8 | Have n't you got him back yet ? did you say he was last heard of on the Silk Road and he should have been in Caledonia. ? oh dear ! and Boudicca 's got his legs ready . |
| 9 | I should have been in Ken Hurren 's office and now be back in my own , absorbed once again in assessing the department 's performance , noting perhaps the promptness with which I myself had channelled work to the appropriate division . |
| 10 | He should have been in Loudwater , Bucks , 30 miles away . |
| 11 | " Then you must have been to Paris before . " |
| 12 | Must have been for Gail then . |
| 13 | He drew her close again and they fell silent , Rachel reflecting on how hard it must have been for David not to have told her what had really happened between himself and her sister , then another thought struck her . |
| 14 | Do you not agree that if God ever did say Let there be light he must have been over Norfolk at the time ? ’ |
| 15 | She had forgotten how fast he could move — he must have been off Chalon in seconds — but as soon as he hauled her to her feet Isabel began to struggle , swinging her free arm up . |
| 16 | Must have been about Monday , or Tuesday . |
| 17 | If to this is added the domestic tensions occasioned by Offa 's determination to secure the succession of his son , Ecgfrith , it becomes clear how highly charged the political atmosphere must have been in Offa 's last years . |
| 18 | Since , as will be seen , Molla Fenari had almost certainly gone to Egypt for further study by that date , it follows that if Husameddin is right , it must have been in Amasya that Molla Fenari studied under Cemaleddin Aksarayi . |
| 19 | He must have been in Mrs Wright 's house with Lee much longer than he 'd thought . |
| 20 | The ceremony will be a bitter-sweet reminder of what might have been for Princess Margaret , forbidden from marrying her divorced sweetheart Peter Townsend . |
| 21 | ‘ I tried to think who might have been to Edouard 's flat . |
| 22 | But Travis was shaking his head , and insisting that he had not been as enthusiastic as he might have been on Saturday . |
| 23 | SEDUCTIVE though the Russian hardware might have been at Farnborough , the seasoned Fly/Past reader had the eye drawn by two aircraft nose-to-nose at the ‘ Black Sheds ’ end of the static . |
| 24 | ‘ Otherwise we might have been in London , ’ Rab said . |
| 25 | From this point on he might have been in Oz for all he knew . |
| 26 | If they were n't from shame they might have been from Norman Ebbsworth : he finished the visit having hit 38 fours and 18 ‘ brilliant sixers ’ . |
| 27 | The only linkage he could see was with Colonel Smith . |
| 28 | Part of it as far as I could see was in India that i India India 's actually got it 's quite a success story for development in a lot of ways . |
| 29 | And erm what I 'd like is for Dennis is to explain a little about how far we 've actually got with the C E D G approach to the introduction of I S O Nine Thousand . |
| 30 | If only he could have been with Dinah at this hour , playing while she sang ! |