Example sentences of "[pers pn] have [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How could I have been such a fool as to take him seriously ? |
| 2 | How could I have been such a fool ? ’ she wailed through her tears . |
| 3 | Can I have be bold ? |
| 4 | Could she have been right when she had thought , almost a week ago , that Roman was about to tell her he had asked Dana to marry him ? |
| 5 | How could she have been such a fool ? |
| 6 | Hypocritical though it was , would n't she have been wiser to have led Luke on a little , been a bit more responsive when the opportunity arose ? |
| 7 | She thought she had been sympathetic to him , but , in the pain of love herself , could she have been kinder ? |
| 8 | And if Oliver had betrayed him , as he had betrayed all the others , what would she have been able to do for the Chartist candidate then ? |
| 9 | Nor could she have been aware of the matey tap with which the russet radical awoke the aforementioned scribe in the morning , a cup of tea grasped in his proletarian fist . |
| 10 | ‘ Would she have been happier , do you think ? |
| 11 | How could she have been foolish enough to let it happen ? she asked herself inwardly as the lift slowed and stopped , and its wide metal doors sighed open . |
| 12 | If you had been an out-of-work farm hand near Inverness , or near Dumfries , why might you have been one of many who moved to Glasgow in the last century ? |
| 13 | ‘ Would you have been capable of doing it yourself ? ’ |
| 14 | Why the hell could n't you have been nicer to her , Mother ? ’ |
| 15 | Would n't you have been wiser to call them back ? |
| 16 | The good points , the points you disagree with completely , but most importantly of , of all , would you have been able to have worked from that particular quality plan as presented to you ? |
| 17 | would you have been willing to provide it ? |
| 18 | I mean wou would , as a cadre receiving this would you have been happy to take this up and implement it ? |
| 19 | But if someone were hiding here , would you have been likely to have seen him ? ’ |
| 20 | Would they have been proud of us ? |
| 21 | Nor can they have been substantial enough to have provided defence against further attacks from the Huns or from the Alamans . |
| 22 | A township seemingly unaffected by Parliamentary influence , with Roman Catholics worshipping openly with , perhaps a despairing vicar trying , perhaps half-heartedly , to depress the old and infiltrate the Anglican requirements possibly to a largely unwilling ( or might they have been uncaring ? ) flock . |
| 23 | Or might they have been Tory voters fooled by Labour 's billboard poster of John Major wearing an SNP rosette ? |
| 24 | The queen mother 's religious views and those of the French advisers she gathered around her did little to allay the reformers ' fears ; nor would they have been happy to know that on Mary 's marriage in 1558 to the Dauphin , who the following year became King Francis II , she secretly signed an agreement that if she should die childless her kingdom of Scotland and her claim to the throne of England should become her husband 's . |
| 25 | Would they have been old fashioned records , the seventy eights ? |
| 26 | Could they have been any worse , do you think ? ’ |
| 27 | Only on pagan sites converted into other uses by Christians would it have been necessary to carry out a purification ceremony involving the use of the Chi-Rho symbol . |
| 28 | Would it have been better if , like other men , he had not told her ? |
| 29 | Would it have been better with another family on board ? |
| 30 | But would it have been better ? |