Example sentences of "[pron] [vb mod] have [be] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | You think I should have been living life to the full , then , and not mourning your brother ? ’ |
| 2 | He said slowly and dangerously , ‘ I daresay I might have been four bob down at the end of an evening . |
| 3 | I could have been old JC himself , I tell you , riding into Jerusalem on his donkey , ready to spread the Good News . |
| 4 | I would have been 3.5 ft tall . |
| 5 | Emma had mounted the first step of the stairs and she was unwinding her scarf when she turned and looked down on her mother , saying , ‘ I would have been many things if I had been brought up in peace . ’ |
| 6 | I do n't actually know if I would have been best friends with her had I not met her before , but we get along well now , + are well suited . |
| 7 | Nicola , who had shed tears of disappointment , said : ‘ Another two seconds and I would have been Olympic champion — the girl 's eyes were going red . |
| 8 | The cause of death is frequently ambiguous and pinning it down to occupational environments , which may have been experienced years or even decades ago , is clearly no easy matter . |
| 9 | ( For most of his adult life he suffered in wrists and legs a condition diagnosed as ‘ gout ’ but which may have been rheumatoid arthritis . ) |
| 10 | So that would have been point two five which should have been fifteen minutes . |
| 11 | She had never been on a train before and the speed , which must have been twenty miles an hour , made her as excited as a child . |
| 12 | There were many types of seed plants evolving throughout the late Palaeozoic and Mesozoic periods which must have been excellent sources of food . |
| 13 | This time the four definitive gricers ' bibles of the time come in one small , hardbacked ( and thus very easily pocketed ) volume with many pictures and full shed lists ( complete with the names of Loco Superintendents and Chief Mechanical Engineers ? ) which would have been important information for spotters of the time . |
| 14 | The idea is to give a taste of life outside for mental patients who may have been inside institutions for up to twenty years . |
| 15 | She may have been three years older than he was , pushing forty and not quite as pert as the sort of girl he favoured at this precise moment , but one day Jack would grow up , look for a real woman to take care of him , and there she 'd be , waiting and ready . |
| 16 | But Malcolm Brodie , who must have been 80 yards away and looking at the player 's back , could say the goal was quite rightly disallowed . |
| 17 | Charlie heard the words , ‘ Carry on , Sergeant-Major , ’ and a moment later a man who must have been six feet six inches in height , and whose beer-barrel chest was covered in medal ribbons , took a pace forward . |
| 18 | The exception was Helga , a Euro-slut from Cologne who should have been several grades higher but kept deliberately failing the aptitude tests so as to be with Massimo . |
| 19 | ‘ To the pigs with the slops , where you should have been this mornin' , ’ replied his wife . |
| 20 | She might have been any age between thirty and sixty and Wexford set the lower limit so low only because of her young children . |
| 21 | I know your degree meant a lot to you , but in all honesty you might have been better resting for longer … ’ |
| 22 | She could have been any girl in any photograph . |
| 23 | She could have been any age , for though her face was weathered by the sun , no wrinkles marred her face . |
| 24 | Melanie wondered how old she was but there was no way of telling ; she could have been any age between twenty-five and forty . |
| 25 | In a flash a sniper , who could have been any gun happy soul anywhere , had killed . |
| 26 | This event had already lost James Trotman , Sarah Kirby and Jasmine Choudbhury through injury — all players who could have been potential title winners . |
| 27 | Just as , er just as well you did n't go out because erm you could have been half way out there in the plane or whate when erm |
| 28 | She would have been rude back , but she was drinking my booze . |
| 29 | A major part of the paper 's thinking was that it could employ people who would have been good journalists if they had pursued journalism as a conventional career . |
| 30 | It would be hard to find an artist more suited to the political needs of museum exhibitions in the early 1990s than Wifredo Lam , who would have been ninety years old this year . |