Example sentences of "that [pers pn] [vb mod] have been [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact , afterwards the doctor told me that the training had probably helped and that I might have been in a lot more serious trouble if I had not been so fit . |
| 2 | Also aware that I was happier with the evasion that I would have been with a wrong answer … |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | I realized that I could have been in deep trouble there : I came close to inflicting a serious injury on Frank Dick . |
| 5 | lost that I 'd have been in a pickle . |
| 6 | The thought did come to his mind a week or so later that she might have been in love with him , but it seemed a ludicrous idea as well as self-congratulatory , and he put it by . |
| 7 | But then she found that she must have been without noticing , for she discovered that there was writing everywhere which she could read without even trying . |
| 8 | Not available on h , housewives , unless they can prove that they would have been in employment , would have been , erm , that they will have been |
| 9 | ‘ They will have a point to prove to me that they should have been on the tour . |
| 10 | He spoke and evidently felt strongly of the degradation that it would have been to the parry to have elected a leader by secret ballot . |
| 11 | Everything was very hush-hush , and it was not until it was over that the name of the target was made common knowledge — not that it would have been of any interest to us if we had known beforehand , because none of us had ever heard of it . |
| 12 | She was so out of it that it would have been like making it with a corpse . |
| 13 | Nevertheless the episode had shown the Government that it had no authority to ban newspapers published in Tanzania which were properly registered and also that it might have been in difficulty had it not discovered a technical irregularity in the case of Ulimwengu . |
| 14 | I mention Husserl because I think that it may have been via Husserl that Wittgenstein acquired his own interest in intentionality . |
| 15 | ‘ We think that it could have been in the Holborn Circus area . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ Though we knew by the place where he had fallen that it must have been at the very summit just as the path runs down the cliff to Kinghorn Manor . ’ |
| 17 | I think ( I can not remember the number ) that it must have been at least 20 lashes he received and I felt every one of them . |
| 18 | Laurin concluded that the Tetraceratops , as a species , lay between the pelycosaurs and therapsids , and that it must have been on the way to becoming a mammal . |
| 19 | Fenella thought that it was a pity that Caspar was so scared of the giants , because he knew so much about Tara that he might have been of considerable help . |
| 20 | Julia knew that he might have been in the room while she was unconscious , but his absence during her times awake began to fret her . |
| 21 | It is just that in that particular situation he had to act as he did , and to have acted differently would have meant that he would have been in the wrong though not for the same reason . |
| 22 | I did n't want to get into soap opera conversation about it with him , but on the occasions that we did talk about it , both of us felt that someone , with perhaps a little more eye on reality , would have realised that he should have been in hospital and not at home unable to reach oxygen . |
| 23 | He started to give her expert directions and it was plain that he must have been to this particular establishment before . |
| 24 | It had never occurred to her that he 'd have been on his way to bed . |