Example sentences of "i [modal v] have [be] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I must have been with the vet for an hour but the driver was still waiting to take me home . |
| 2 | I should have been on the following flight to bring you back . |
| 3 | ‘ I might have been on the train that hit him ! |
| 4 | In normal times , I might have been on the next flight out and by morning Miss Schlegel — a schoolgirl , yes , but what a schoolgirl , probably tanned , certainly firm and bouncy , and unquestionably an amateur theologian of weird and savage genius — would have found herself thickly slathered in Noxzema Regular Protective Shave Formula and roped to a groyne . |
| 5 | I could have been in the same room with the murderer back at Livingstone Manor . |
| 6 | Much better than I could have been in the role . |
| 7 | If it had said solid silver I 'd have been down the h down the s down the high street . |
| 8 | If I had n't been ‘ discovered ’ , as I suppose I must describe it , then I would have been on the same old path , up at Low Birk Hatt and miserable . |
| 9 | I was met by a very respectful group of Gordon Highlanders when I visted Aberdeen recently , when I said that I would have been on the line as well had I been in their position . |
| 10 | ‘ I was bumped on to the rail six or seven times and I think I would have been in the first four but for that , ’ he said . |