Example sentences of "[modal v] i have [been] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Why should I have been ? ’ |
| 2 | Should I have been told before this ? |
| 3 | They 're over the river by this time , and so should I have been if you had not come so prompt to your hour . |
| 4 | Oh God , he thought , how could I have been so stupid , so blind . |
| 5 | How could I have been so heartless ? ’ |
| 6 | Could I have been dreaming ? |
| 7 | How could I have been so irresponsible , putting my foolish ambitions before Richard and my children ? |
| 8 | How could I have been such a fool as to take him seriously ? |
| 9 | ( Oh dear , I had not thought to check the lunar date ; how could I have been so silly ? ) |
| 10 | How could I have been so simple , naive ? |
| 11 | ‘ How could I have been so stupid ? ’ |
| 12 | How could I have been such a fool ? ’ she wailed through her tears . |
| 13 | ‘ How could I have been taken in by his charm ? ’ |
| 14 | But oh , she thought , tearlessly watching Mrs Greville leave , how could I have been so deceived — and twice at that … ? |
| 15 | How could I have been so blind to have let you go … ? ’ |
| 16 | What a racket did I keep and to say truth I would I had been more chary than I was … for a faithless wretch I met with : well , he has a deal to answer for . |
| 17 | Would I had been so created ! |
| 18 | And what would I have been without . |
| 19 | Gladly would I have been in the condition of dog or horse , for I knew they had no soul to perish under the everlasting weights of Hell as mine was like to do . ’ |
| 20 | Gently he added , ‘ And what use would I have been , angel ? ’ |