Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] [pers pn] [modal v] have be " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were a number of clues available to Robson : if West had still held the guarded queen of clubs he would almost certainly have kept and exited with his last spade ; if he had held both the king and queen of clubs he would have been equally likely to win the first club with the queen ; and , from what had happened so far , it looked as though West had started with more clubs than his partner . |
| 2 | If you had a ha'p'orth of brains you would have been married by now and living in Jesmond , the best end . |
| 3 | Before the BDDA annual conference of delegates we would have been willing to risk a small wager that by far the greater number of the deaf in this country found the word " dumb " obsolete , misleading , offensive and any other such adjective you care to mention . |
| 4 | Maybe we , it may well be that you were with other people , I wonder what sort of things if you were in a condition of speaking , what sort of things you would have been saying to them . |
| 5 | ‘ I dressed for sex and thought about nothing else on these trips to London and , once I was locked away with Andrew , I got up to all sorts of things I would have been too embarrassed to do with Tony . |
| 6 | Without demonstrable concern for their welfare and the active promotion of an identity of interests it would have been difficult for a party of landed and industrial power to retain authority ( for an historical survey of this see McKenzie and Silver 1968 pp 42–73 ) . |
| 7 | But a solicitor for Ayrshire and Arran Health Board told the inquiry that in the balance of probabilities it would have been too late . |
| 8 | ‘ Nice of you , ’ said Gerald Seymour-Strachey , flashing at him those miraculously even teeth , and looking every inch the debonair squire of dames he must have been in his youth . |
| 9 | The absence of Butler and Kelly forces Barrow into changes he would have been reluctant to make after Saturday 's performance . |
| 10 | He is about parcels he may have been given . |
| 11 | In some ways those days when she had lived in Paula 's shadow seemed a very long time ago , in others they might have been just yesterday . |
| 12 | It is generally accepted that each person , man and woman , is made up of both masculine and feminine qualities , and it appears that in some lifetimes the masculine will have been predominant while in others it will have been the feminine . |
| 13 | If the upper part had been true as to intervals it would have been in B major , and of course the tonal results would have been chaotic : organ Whether intervals are true or false does not matter to listeners , who can not easily distinguish the difference . |
| 14 | If there were bouncers on mountains I would have been refused entry to the crags on more occasions than I care to recall . |
| 15 | Eva never speaks of being afraid as the various political situations blew up even though at times it must have been rather like walking a tightrope after UDI . |
| 16 | ‘ By rights they should have been made on Stir-up Sunday , only I was too busy . |
| 17 | By rights she should have been exhausted , but not a bit of it . |
| 18 | It was ridiculous , of course ; by rights she should have been perfectly happy to throw on any old thing , the more unflattering the better , since the whole purpose of the exercise was to convince Dane she did n't want him . |