Example sentences of "i [vb mod] [adv] [verb] have [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whatever roots I may once have had were cut off years ago when as a young man or old boy I left my father 's house to make my way in horrible competitive London . |
| 2 | " Mr. Stavanger — Captain stavanger , I should really say had been in the Royal Navy . |
| 3 | ‘ I would definitely like to have been there all the way at the start of history , at the start of human beings , to see all that happened . |
| 4 | I ca n't claim to have been entirely candid about my promise after making it . |
| 5 | I can not claim to have been a close friend , but I had occasional encounters with him and , as with most people , it would be more accurate to describe them as occasional brushes . |