Example sentences of "but [pron] [modal v] have [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I now have a wonderful little boy who is absolutely perfection , ’ she says , ‘ I know I might have had another wonderful child but I would have been riddled with doubt for most of its life . ’ |
| 2 | But I might have been speaking to a corpse , she was so pale and still and silent . |
| 3 | There was no mistaking his bulk , but I could have been fooled by Jo if I had n't known her . |
| 4 | ‘ But I should have been told of your arrival , ’ the Baron went on . |
| 5 | But someone must have been slipping amongst them like a stoat , noting , memorizing , carrying word stealthily to the Duke of Atholl . |
| 6 | These sudden rages , which he attributed to his head wound but which may have been connected with the suppression of inherited melancholy , always passed quickly and disappeared in late life . |
| 7 | No special LIFESPAN privileges are required to use this option , but you must have been requested to endorse the SSR for specific package(s) via the Mail System . |
| 8 | I know but you could 've been fetched from Grand Canaries . |
| 9 | ‘ She did n't look like one of the village matriarchs — she was quite small — ; but she might have been quarried out of the local slate . |
| 10 | She 'd lost of course all modesty , if she ever had any , but she must have been reared like a pig … her language was indescribably common and coarse , and whether eating , drinking , speaking , washing or even pissing , her vulgarity and idiocy were intolerable . |
| 11 | She was discussing problems in Lee 's living-room but she could have been standing in front of a giant black door in the middle of a forest . |
| 12 | But she could have been slipped something somewhere , through a pinprick . |
| 13 | ‘ I 'm not being critical of our unions , but there should have been marketing people approaching the corporates even during the World Cup ’ , he says . |
| 14 | The scapula and pelvis were broken , but they may have been broken already in the pellet . |
| 15 | Suppose that what is wanted is large-scale mapping of the city of Leeds , it is likely that snapshots of Ordnance Survey mapping will have been preserved far more frequently , for the practical purposes of town planners etc. , but they will have been preserved not in libraries but in planning offices , and will they have been preserved after the date when they were needed there ? |
| 16 | But they could 've been talking about something personal and we would 've heard everything they said . |
| 17 | He teaches you how to write wonderful , metaphysical narratives , but they could have been written any time this century . |
| 18 | Such heavy particles can not be created at even the highest energies particle accelerators can reach , but they could have been produced copiously in the aftermath of the big bang , with which , cosmologists generally believe , the Universe began . |
| 19 | Ricky had to steel himself not to take her in his arms , but he would have been putting a match to a petrol-soaked bonfire , and he did n't want to hate himself any more than he did already . |
| 20 | But he may have been wearing a dark ski cap of the Deerhunter style . |
| 21 | But he may have been wearing a dark ski cap of the Deerhunter style . |
| 22 | But he may have been observing the traditional superstition that it is unlucky for the bridegroom to see the bride on the eve of her wedding . |
| 23 | But he might have been speaking a foreign language . |
| 24 | He was speaking about Yugoslavia — but he could have been talking about the appalling scenes in Somalia or other parts of Africa . |
| 25 | Not that we worried about that per se , but he could have been carrying our wages . |
| 26 | But he must have been thinking something and I would have given anything to know what it was . |
| 27 | Severiano Ballesteros also had a 70 for a total of 213 but he must have been kicking himself for it included a seven at the 13th . |
| 28 | The third time she saw it Allen was with her but he must have been looking in the wrong place , for he did n't see it although she did n't understand how that could be . |
| 29 | I 've been looking for him all afternoon , but he must have been tied up with work . |
| 30 | It is not providence , but it may have been meant just the same . |