Example sentences of "[pers pn] [modal v] [verb] [been] [adj] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Dear me , I must have been asleep for … |
| 2 | I must have been unconscious for hours . |
| 3 | I must have been mad for a few hours , and I swept you up in it too . |
| 4 | If I had been counting , or had been more familiar with the aircraft or the sequence , I might have been ready for him . |
| 5 | ‘ I 'd have been delighted for you to have been squeezed in next to me . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | One day I shall lie beside that grave and the stone will say ‘ Angharad ’ and I shall have been dead for a long time . |
| 8 | ‘ You must have been asleep for a very long time , ’ he said . |
| 9 | She must have been asleep for some hours when the sound of her opening bedroom door penetrated her dreams and brought her instantly awake . |
| 10 | For a minute she had believed she might have been responsible for the change in his life , but it was n't her but Maria Luisa . |
| 11 | In Miss Weeton 's Journal of a Governess , she writes on 15th September 1810 : ‘ I would have introduced you to Mr. Green , who keeps an exhibition of drawings ( all his own ) in that village where you might have been amused for two or three hours-for he has a great number , two rooms being kept open for the purpose . |
| 12 | Had she been expecting any apology , though , Fabia realised then that she would have been disappointed for , ‘ Hrm , ’ was all he grunted , and , handing the letter back , he scrutinised her with a hard look , and Fabia had the feeling that he thought that she was the one in the wrong ! |
| 13 | If he had spoken of forgiving , or pitying , or even loving , she would have been ready for him , but to be needed was something she had not looked for . |
| 14 | His face was so unguarded that if she had not loved him as much she would have been afraid for him . |
| 15 | She would have been eligible for and would have got local authority accommodation . |
| 16 | the cabin is smart and modern , and the panel well-stocked … but we would have been grateful for an autopilot . |
| 17 | There were fewer than seven under-strength German divisions in Yugoslavia , none of them would have been suitable for service in France or North Italy , as has been maintained . |
| 18 | They may have been purpose-built for pedestrians , or be ordinary streets where the traffic flow is restricted ( usually to emergency services and possibly delivery vans ) . |
| 19 | All the Duchamp brothers were at this time passionately interested in mathematics ; Jacques Villon was engaged in reading Leonardo 's Trattato della Pittura , while Marcel Duchamp was a close friend of an amateur mathematician named Maurice Princet , so that it is not surprising that they should have been responsible for introducing a more scientific note into Cubist discussions . |
| 20 | ‘ They could have been responsible for the deaths of Cosmas and Damien , ’ I added . |
| 21 | My leaving Lula caused quite a scandal in Berlin ; but that period with her could have been deadly for me . |
| 22 | It may have been necessary for Jesus to have eaten a few fishes in order to survive in first-century Palestine , but it is not now necessary to feast on the bodies of dead animals in order to be healthy . |
| 23 | That it may have been difficult for members to attend area sessions , should not rule out the possibility of encouraging collaboration among groups of local boards . |
| 24 | It is becoming clear how important was Eorcenwald 's role in the evolution of the diplomatic form of early Anglo-Saxon charters in the 680s and thereafter ; indeed he may have been responsible for drafting Caedwalla 's charter to Farnham . |
| 25 | I think he may have been responsible for her unhappiness . |
| 26 | He was twenty — well this June — and he still had n't walked out with a girlfriend , and yet his mother was moving in very exalted circles , where it should have been possible for him to meet the pick of the debutantes . |
| 27 | They ca n't but they , it should , it should have been possible for the councils to have I do n't know it , it it seems I , I put it down , I remember walking up and down on the beach with John about eight weeks ago was it ? |
| 28 | What remains unexplained is why it should have been necessary for the Deutschland to go aground , so preventing the nuns from continuing their service to God . |
| 29 | Sam could sing and play the concertina and violin , and he must have been good for the BBC to come all the way to Baldersdale to find him . |
| 30 | He must have been asleep for hours . |