Example sentences of "have be [adv] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Forty eight and and presumably many of the people who are perhaps seventy drawing pensions , they may not have even paid in thirty years themselves , I mean they may be many of them may not have been around for that period of time . |
| 2 | He was exaggerating , of course , but all the same , she must have been away for longer than she had intended . |
| 3 | According to work done in the 1970s and 1980s , there could have been up to 32 in the rocks of Burgess shale alone , including many never seen anywhere else . |
| 4 | That 's you know it was all purely hypothetical the figures they produced but er they were comparing it to what we had pr previously been producing we all sort of realized that for a set production figure we could have been up to forty pound worse off , per week . |
| 5 | But the little tousle-headed , dirty , tanned , bold toddler that was me might well have been up to some sort of mischief involving the beast . |
| 6 | Normally , she would have been up for several hours and written a couple of thousand words . |
| 7 | Carrie suddenly said , ‘ Your mum and I were worried about you , Seb , but all my dad could keep saying was , ‘ It 's a good job I managed to reach you when I did , or you 'd have been up at that farmhouse for another week . ’ ’ |
| 8 | If the SRs had achieved power , ‘ their actions would have been exactly like those of the Bolshevik Party . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ The fuzz would have been on to that straight away . |
| 10 | Irate boss to late arrival at Lloyd 's : ‘ You should have been here at nine o'clock . ’ |
| 11 | IRATE boss to late arrival at Lloyd 's : ‘ You should have been here at nine o'clock . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ If it were obvious , we would n't have been here for five years trying to find it , and Paula would still be … . |
| 13 | All the time yes , apart from say about six weeks , used to come in in the winter to repair the do maintenance on the dredger and then the old harbourmaster would say right , we should have been here for six weeks , he come after a month , he 'd say , paint the cover the rust up he said and bugger off out again . |
| 14 | Iago had brought him , and Iago should have been here within two more days to take him away , somewhat recovered now and strong enough to continue his flight into Wales . |
| 15 | ‘ It must have been between half-past seven and eight . ’ |
| 16 | Wiping them might have been enough for most people — but not for somebody who was trying to do card tricks . ’ |
| 17 | What about livestock would they have been in at that time of year ? |
| 18 | No Chris should have been in at six , that 's when the first team started counting . |
| 19 | ( Even so , Valentin 's marriage did not survive and it is difficult to avoid the conclusion that its atmosphere must have been far from normal . |
| 20 | It is the longest time the that the royal couple will have been together in public since the intense speculation about their marriage during the summer . |
| 21 | Occasionally it is explained that they had already died — and given the still short life-expectancy of the period this must have been so in many cases . |
| 22 | That might have been so in this nation , but it was not the case throughout the empire . |
| 23 | By now you should have been out on several practice walks and determined your state of fitness . |
| 24 | I must n't have been out of that office half an hour and I 'd , she 'd rung here and left a message to say I could go on it . |
| 25 | London Scottish may have been out of top league rugby for a few seasons , but they 're a real threat to the cherry and whites . |
| 26 | Dad normally would n't have been out in such madness , but there he was , this grey-haired man just over five feet tall , going into a phone-box when we had a working telephone in our hall . |
| 27 | I doubt if I would ever have been quite to aware of this had we not gone through this disaster . |
| 28 | There was continued sniping about the March performance , with Rover , whose market share was down to less than 10 p.c. , claiming sales would have been down by 20 p.c. were it not for Ford ‘ buying market share ’ . |
| 29 | It would have been still worth one million pounds had it not been cancelled of course , and the item is actually cancelled , so consequently , naturally not . |
| 30 | The Labour government 's priority from 1964 onwards was the servicing of the economy in response to demands made on them by capital ; in so far as working-class girls could have contributed to this , it would have been only in those unskilled jobs for which greater or better education was not required . |