Example sentences of "[adv] [pers pn] [modal v] have been [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | so it might 've been Rob that went out with her , but I du n no . |
| 2 | Somebody who used to live next door to you , so it must have been Hartsett Close then . |
| 3 | Oh admittedly you would have been pig sick when a king would have , but even if the king had turned up you 'd have still got the , got a run and fifteen . |
| 4 | Sometimes it doesn especially if it 's just one thing outside there , like it might have been sort of a a three X or |
| 5 | It is extremely probable that nine days later they would have been part of the 1000 Bomber Raid on Cologne . |
| 6 | ‘ That 's what I thought at the time , anyway , ’ said William , ‘ but I think now it must have been Barry Moxton . |
| 7 | Er , I think really it must 've been thrift . |
| 8 | Well it might have been July , I ca n't remember . |
| 9 | Well it might have been Jes cos I do n't know tha well they 've got , I think they 've got two children . |
| 10 | Remembering the Welsh love of nicknames , I said , ‘ Then you 'd have been Neil the Squeal . ’ |
| 11 | If it had been ‘ five ’ then it would have been rhd . |
| 12 | ‘ Then it must have been holiday-makers out for a walk , ’ said Betty . |
| 13 | If Law had a political model , then it must have been Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman , a fellow Scot who had shown that an ordinary man could hold the highest office without discredit and that he could beat the clever and the politically sophisticated at their own game . |
| 14 | Instead we might have been strangers . |
| 15 | But my mother knew who it was , so she quickly hid Molly underneath the stairs and that was that , otherwise we might have been brothers-in-law . |
| 16 | that they did n't enjoy it and therefore it must have been rape cos they did n't wa they did n't like it . |