Example sentences of "[vb mod] 've [been] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Staff are angry at the thought the duck 's may 've been mistreated |
| 2 | ‘ She may 've been murdered , ’ said Constance . |
| 3 | It may 've been found already . ’ |
| 4 | Should 've been called ‘ I Missed The Charts ’ . |
| 5 | you know so erm so some er a lot more should 've been done about actually getting , even if it was just well I 'm in that area , I 'm in the area on such and such a day anyway so I can call in to see you . |
| 6 | ‘ You should 've been told already . |
| 7 | It 's him should 've been coming home tonight . |
| 8 | But in the old liberated areas like say around i i i in theory none of this should be necessary , very little of it should 've been happening . |
| 9 | So Madam I 'm asking you to say that these circumstances , this is the sort of case that should never have come before the court , it should 've been sorted out between the parties themselves , with the aid of their solicitors , and that it 's only the overreaction of the police in this particular circumstance that brings him before the court here . |
| 10 | Now going back into the Hebrew scriptures , you 'll find there that this sort of staying awake counsel , an idea was there long before the days of Jesus and the Apostles and people 's lives were involved in its state , even in those days , let's just let us have a look at one , Isaiah forty two eighteen to twenty now this terms it slightly different , but when you look at it and analyze it , you realize he 's talking about exactly the same thing , it 's regarding the nation of Israel who turned away from Jehovah , they were n't doing what they should be doing , or should 've been doing as he 's pleading with them look there , that look here , here you deaf ones , well we know the nation of Israel were n't all physically deaf , they were like we are , perhaps had a few deaf individuals amongst them , but |
| 11 | and what they did , and you were there , and you must 've been listening , what they did , percent for people , they moved it up to Policy and Resources , Policy and Resources percent for people came around , Councillor spoke . |
| 12 | she must 've been holding it in because she did n't wan na wipe her bum with her hand and then you know it just burst out before she could get to the toilet . |
| 13 | And suddenly he remembered standing here , it was dark-green all around him , but the sky above was blue , the sun must 've been setting , it was quiet , just the creak of a tree , the whir of an insect 's wing , he 'd been standing motionless , as if in a trance , and then he heard a voice , his mother 's voice . |
| 14 | ‘ I think it must 've been hit by a car , ’ he said . |
| 15 | They 'd dived , you see , but eventually they had to surface — the air must 've been getting bad — and up they came , drew nearly alongside a German destroyer the pack had left behind when they called off the hunt , waiting there , just in case Taureg surfaced . |
| 16 | Drivers must 've been celebrating too . |
| 17 | No but it must 've been talking about youngsters having cars |
| 18 | I said , ‘ What I told you before — you were dreaming , you must 've been dreaming , you know . |
| 19 | Yeah he must 've been following her about . |
| 20 | I just love the way that kid must 've been standing out there for what , fifteen minutes ? |
| 21 | He was looking at the ground , he seemed to be concentrating ; he might 've been trying to remember something . |
| 22 | In the past it might 've been written off as artwank . |
| 23 | She might 've been calculating something . |
| 24 | The slow-crawl music they produced might 've been linked with hardcore , but it was really ‘ the end of rock , the dying throes ’ . |
| 25 | He woke on top of her , she might 've been a beach , he might 've been abandoned there by waves . |
| 26 | And there 's Master Tristram pretending he 's not listening to his father , who might 've been sitting in the Fowey stocks by now if it was n't for that same father 's efforts . " |
| 27 | ‘ 'Ll 've been emptied . ’ |
| 28 | I mean I did ask you about the outstanding bills and loans whereas if we 'd 've been doing the thing properly we 'd 've gone through that |
| 29 | She 'd 've been lying on Spanish beaches with her eyes tight shut knowing that every Spanish boy who passed would fancy her . |
| 30 | well it she could 've been done last year but we 've not done this year , be gone . |