Example sentences of "she [modal v] have been [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | She may have been scarred for life , ’ she said . |
| 2 | She may have been scarred for life , ’ she said . |
| 3 | She must have been looking for me because a few seconds later she spotted me and came over . |
| 4 | She must have been going for the six o'clock train , and she was probably in a dickens of a rush when … ’ |
| 5 | she was nearly retiring by the , no still the girls go to her at the school so she must have been going for , two or three years after we came up here , but I would be in the choir just , maybe two or three years . |
| 6 | I thought she must have been waiting for someone … ’ |
| 7 | She must have been waiting for some time . |
| 8 | It was such a shock to feel his animosity directed so unwaveringly towards her ; even though , after last night , she could have been prepared for something , she could only gape down at him . |
| 9 | She could have been kidnapped for all I know . |
| 10 | If her eyes had not been so bright and alert , she could have been mistaken for a corpse . |
| 11 | Her eyes were nearer black than brown and she wore woollen knee stockings ; from a distance she could have been mistaken for a child , of either sex . |
| 12 | It altered her appearance considerably , making her look older and quite severe , and in her new black working dress she could have been taken for a widow . |
| 13 | Home Office pathologist Dr Donald Wayte , of Bangor , told the court yesterday that it would probably have been impossible to get so much material into Mrs McMullen 's mouth if she had been conscious , as she would have been fighting for her life . |