Example sentences of "[pron] [vb mod] have been [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Similar attitudes of troops of occupation of all ages and in all places , from South America to India , help us understand the revulsion now felt by many Britons , some of whom may have been sympathetic to Rome and hopeful of recognition of their natural rights and dignity . |
| 2 | Some of those qualities appear to have been inherited by Frederick 's youngest son Herbert and , as already mentioned , some of them may have been present in Frederick 's uncle William . |
| 3 | I would prefer not to have my guy stand up and say I may have been involved in an assassination . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ Dear me , I must have been asleep for … |
| 5 | I think maybe I must have been Spanish in some former life — I feel as though I 've come home . ’ |
| 6 | I must have been unconscious for hours . |
| 7 | I must have been jealous of her life away from me , and wished to have her entirely to myself . |
| 8 | I must have been mad on the strength of one fish , going all out boilies but it was a double and I just had a feeling this was how the better fish might fall . |
| 9 | I must have been mad for a few hours , and I swept you up in it too . |
| 10 | Looking back on it , I 've decided I must have been clear round the bend ! |
| 11 | " I should have been honest with that child this morning . " |
| 12 | There is something very impressive of state and royalty in the march of these sixty or more elephants ; and if I had not regarded this display of magnificence with a sort of philosophical indifference , I should have been apt to be carried away by such flights of imagination as inspire most Indian poets . |
| 13 | Perhaps I should have been frank with her , admitted honestly that I did n't love her and that if she insisted on marrying me she would be condemning both of us to a joyless union . |
| 14 | The court held that this did not show an absence of negligence since someone must have been careless in not following the proper system . |
| 15 | I was duly slapped down by my more knowledgeable tectonic seniors , and tried to forget the brief publication in question , but later work has now led me to suspect that I might have been right after all . |
| 16 | Now , I 'm , I might have been remiss on this , but we had to do this in a hurry , erm , to get names in , and , but it 's been suggested by erm , the leader of the er , Conservative group on , on this Committee , that erm , a , a , member from each should , major group should go , and er , I 'm quite , I 'm quite inordinate , in favour of this , if we can get erm , bookings there now . |
| 17 | If human communication were a simple matter of reciprocally exchanged words , if words had no resonances beyond themselves , I might have been proud to be cast in such a role , and either self-confident enough in my ability to fulfil it , or else realistic enough to modify my directives and declare myself in favour of some more modest role . |
| 18 | ‘ True , ’ said Isambard , grinning at him , ‘ it 's a pity to think I might have been dead by this , and you ten miles away on your road home . |
| 19 | But on the whole the bundles of blanket and piled clothing in the beds did not seem alive at all and I might have been alone in the block . |
| 20 | If I had been counting , or had been more familiar with the aircraft or the sequence , I might have been ready for him . |
| 21 | I was n't saving up to get married , I was n't very interested in jewellery , and clothes , which I could have been interested in , came under the category of things to look at in shop windows but not to buy , because of the very limited amount of clothing coupons one was allowed to have . |
| 22 | She says it was an old building and someone could have been stuck on an upper floor . |
| 23 | ‘ I 'd have been delighted for you to have been squeezed in next to me . |
| 24 | Quite a good result , we could be miffed after their 3rd goal , but mid-way through the 2rd half I 'd have been exstatic with a draw . |
| 25 | I 'm not saying I 'd have been good for him or him for me , but it did provide a link in a chain that was to tie me to glory in the Open . |
| 26 | ‘ If it were n't for you I 'd have been fish-food by now . ’ |
| 27 | If I 'd been anything less than convincing , the audience would have picked up on it and I 'd have been furious with myself . |
| 28 | Lord knows how long I 'd have been stuck in here before they finally realised I was telling the truth . |
| 29 | I would have been grateful to someone like you when I was little , but I was not so lucky . |
| 30 | I would have been useless in the Inca army , covering their network of roads up and down the Andes from Ecuador to Chile . |