Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] [modal v] [adv] have [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But you must have known that letter was going to arrive this morning , or you would n't have been round here , trying to snatch it away before I saw it . ’ |
| 2 | His manners , however , must have been unmarked , wavering , dubious , or she could not have been so misled . |
| 3 | We will seek reassurance that we are loved in all kinds of bizarre ways rather than acknowledge there were times when we were not loved , or we may never have been loved , or even that we may have been hated . |
| 4 | The internal hierarchies of the print system were of course broadly coherent with more general social hierarchies , or they could not have been so effective . |
| 5 | He recommended Richard Coppin [ q.v. ] as his successor and emigrated to Barbados in about 1655 , where he may later have been investigated for organizing conventicles . |
| 6 | When the officers were finally allowed to see Oliver , Dr Losberne said , ‘ This is a boy who was shot this morning while walking on a farmer 's property where he should n't have been . |
| 7 | The dress was tight in the right places , and shiny where it should n't have been . |
| 8 | Though what I did notice was a motor bicycle parked where it should n't have been — outside Wheeler 's . |
| 9 | But no , he was n't killed for that , or it would n't have been still on him . |
| 10 | The lack of reversal when splitting data by accident estimates may have been caused by a number of films with very little peripheral information in them , or it may simply have been an effect of the high correlation between risk and accident estimates . |
| 11 | Or it may simply have been that he was hiding : that his confused sexuality could at any time have brought him down . |
| 12 | The photograph was taken on a favourable day or it could not have been taken at all . |
| 13 | But he 's still involved in the design industry — or he would n't have been at the Olympia exhibition , would he ? ’ |
| 14 | Either Frederick became ill because of their privations , or he may already have been suffering from pneumonia , which was worsened by the hard journey . |
| 15 | But then I told myself that I would only have been his mistress , in a foreign country , and for a short time , until he grew tired of me . |
| 16 | I think now that I need not have been so prim and stand-offish , but I was afraid to wound him further by giving him what might possibly be taken for false ‘ encouragement ’ . |
| 17 | Oh Charlie shut her up at , at Chris 's mums funeral , when we went to Chris 's mum funeral , she 's erm , she said something or other about , request something or other about , pointing at the I should n't 've been there really because I did n't know her and Charlie said she felt did n't know her and erm she said oh well Rose never spoke about her , or words to that effect , Chris says the reason our mum never spoke about her cos she never showed her face in here anyway , he said when was the last time you see your mum , at that , she shut straight up like that , her face went , she 'd like saying that I should n't 've been there cos I did n't know her , I mean yet , she ai n't set foot in the house for fucking year like , you know she 's a horrible cow , and like when we went in the church , when we went in the crematorium er you had , she had a nice , big one up on the hill is it Arnold 's ? |
| 18 | The school authorities were unsympathetic : the dinner ladies would only accept you into the school to see the nurse if you were on the point of death , + my teacher kindly informed me that I should n't have been running in the playground . |
| 19 | I believed that I should again have been running the anchor leg , but our Director of Coaching decided otherwise . |
| 20 | Flora , of course , was nothing like my poor little mother , nor was her situation comparable , but one can not help being affected by memories , however irrelevant they may be , and , thinking of that other middle-aged woman deserted by her young lover , made me sorrier for Flora than I might otherwise have been . |
| 21 | I am grateful for that because it enables me to provide him with a fuller response on those points than I might otherwise have been able to do . |
| 22 | Margaret Drabble 's novels were a success from the start ( this one was published in 1964 ) , so I ca n't have been the only new mother to feel she was speaking for me . |
| 23 | Except you should n't have been on the pavement . |
| 24 | But although she may not have been popular at work she was not evil . |
| 25 | Charles feels that his parents would have completed their family with Diana while the Princess herself feels that she would not have been born . |
| 26 | She could n't just ignore him in his own house and she had the nasty feeling that she would not have been able to ignore him anywhere . |
| 27 | Although the piece was a well balanced probe into the Phoenix career ( and an immensely interesting career it is too ) , one was left with the feeling that she would n't have been there had it not been for the status of her interviewer . |
| 28 | If they had been chatting , no matter how lightly , she would have been so absorbed in carefully listening and in getting out a reply through a nervously constricted throat that she would n't have been able to enjoy this wonderful drive . |
| 29 | Helen had confessed at lunch that she would sooner have been three behind than three in front — and when news came , after the first 10 holes of the fourth round , that she had fallen one to the rear of the Australian , one had the feeling that she was merely paving the way for a last-minute attack . |
| 30 | Four months later her killer is still at large and detectives are looking at the possibility that she may not have been his first victim |