Example sentences of "we [modal v] have [been] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We should have been on TV after all . |
| 2 | We should have been at Ardneavie ages ago . ’ |
| 3 | We should have been over the pass by now and starting to look for the Hacienda Lucinda . |
| 4 | ‘ They helped him many a time to keep his head above water or else we should have been in a poor way . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Between us we must have been to every bar within a mile radius of Times Square . |
| 6 | They 're a bit scattered around — we must have been near the bottom of the pile , I 'm afraid . ’ |
| 7 | However naughty we might have been at school , this was not mentioned at home . |
| 8 | ‘ Otherwise we might have been in London , ’ Rab said . |
| 9 | We might have been in a shopping concourse and her cries some strange species of muzak : |
| 10 | The moonless sky was overcast , and gliding into an opaque blackness we might have been in outer space . |
| 11 | Families eating candyfloss under strings of coloured lights , crowds of bikers guzzling frogburgers , country music wailing from loudspeakers ; we could have been on Hampstead Heath on Bank Holiday night . |
| 12 | Here was somewhere in a meditative limbo between earthly chaos and spiritual ecstasy ; we could have been on the crystal lake of the Apocalypse , half-way to paradise … |
| 13 | At precisely the point where we could have been at our most radical we are at our least radical , this is the least radical document that we 've come across . |
| 14 | ‘ We have not been as good as we could have been in producing statistically valid trials . ’ |
| 15 | The first visit to Brussels , the amend , the first visit to Brussels we had to go and bail you out because the Commission , the Commission , we could have been in this er |
| 16 | We could have been from Bombay . |
| 17 | We could have been like George Sand and Chopin ; greater than them ! and Gustave insists on disappearing for three months with that ambitious catamite of his . |
| 18 | From then on Leeds showed some good attacking play but thankfully Bright is a donkey who gets caught off-side alot or we 'd have been in trouble ( Newsome and wetherall look dodgy to say the least ) . |
| 19 | Just think of the hell we would have been through … ’ |
| 20 | ‘ Think of where we would have been without nurses during the war . ’ |
| 21 | Witness the serried ranks of highly paid company chairmen who maintain , in the face of incontrovertible evidence to the contrary , that the Eighties enriched us , that we are immeasurably better off as a result of the Thatcher experiment than we would have been without it . |
| 22 | In a way I suppoise it was quite fortunate as we would have been without speed and wallace , who have now got a longer recovery period — as have all the other cripples that we 're carrying . |
| 23 | We must never forget , mind , either you or me , if it had n't been for Mrs Aggie and her yard , God knows where we would have been at this minute . |
| 24 | If we had continued to treat patients at the same rate — there has been an unprecedented , inexplicable , and hence unforeseeable rise of 12% in medical emergencies — we would have been at least £0.5m in the red by the end of the financial year . |
| 25 | Any higher and we would have been on the bloody roof , and squeezed into rather mean , dark garrets . |
| 26 | Do you imagine that we are the way we are about money because of mother or because we would have been like that anyway ? ’ |
| 27 | Newry manager Terry Nicholson said : ‘ We would have been in the game with a better chance if we had taken the two chances that came our way early on . |
| 28 | This is the question which everyone ought to ask himself , and the only question — are we as a nation in a better position to prosecute the war as a consequence of it than we would have been by any other arrangement ? |
| 29 | By the way , I am convinced that the black girl who joined us should have been on the cultural induction course next door . |
| 30 | Which would have been very attractive , unobtrusive and none of us would have been against it , and when they came to put in the application to convert it , making it a meter wider and turn that into an extra bedroom or whatever was , we said that there was no parking , and we said what would happen and East Devon went ahead and approved that , and exactly in everything we 've said which was recorded in this council |