Example sentences of "have been [prep] that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And they would have been at that muckle supper . |
| 2 | They must have been at that game for ages — and no anaesthetics , either . |
| 3 | She had said ‘ the rest of you ’ and I had never heard her so distance herself before , but what astonished me was the realisation that my father must have been at that party , must have returned with my mother to the villa in the small hours , must have been aware of me in my little white pyjamas and Panama hat . |
| 4 | It must have been at that time that his habit of keeping notes on his travels began . |
| 5 | And he came down he would have been working for he would have been at that time my great grandfather maybe or and he came down and he lived in lower Millfield after that and just as soon as he was out of his house , they just had the house demolished . |
| 6 | Could have been on that boardwalk thing that we spoke about just across the road . |
| 7 | Andy overtook a container lorry , the kind of thing that should never have been on that road , and hit a Volvo estate car coming in the opposite direction . |
| 8 | And we might , might well have been on that train that had the crash . |
| 9 | Hill said : ‘ I should n't have been in that position in the first place if I had not spun on the opening lap . |
| 10 | And question ten , you should have the word Preventable and words to the effect Should not have been in that position and not have assumed that the other driver was going to do what he eventually did do . |
| 11 | Hill said : ‘ I should n't have been in that position in the first place if I had not spun on the opening lap . |
| 12 | I do n't think that chair could have been in that book Brian . |
| 13 | She had said it was her niece because the girl was young and had black hair and because who else but Nora Fanshawe could have been in that car with her parents ? |
| 14 | So it 's a bit frightening when you think a pensioner 's money may have been in that account at thirteen fifty on a , on ten thousand invested , and now they 're down to seven hundred . |
| 15 | The end result might only be a slight scratch , but the potential might have been in that situation for something a lot worse . |
| 16 | ( If mortality rates for the age group 20–24 could have been calculated , the nadir would probably have been in that age class ) . |
| 17 | It may well have been in that picture that the new type was created . |
| 18 | I think the department of Health was swayed rather more than it should have been by that lobby , because the sort of service that was intended to set up in Camberwell has not yet been set up . |