Example sentences of "[pron] [vb mod] [adv] [vb infin] been " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of them may well have been to boys ' boarding schools and put up with this sort of behaviour |
| 2 | Members of the Soviet government ( the Council of Ministers ) were essentially administrative heads of ministries , but at the same time they were party members , and a few of them may even have been members of the Politburo . |
| 3 | Had things gone wrong with me , I may ultimately have been sent to prison . |
| 4 | These " no-hopers " were probably given to me because I may well have been overheard to say I did not believe that there was such a person who had gone through a-initio training as a pilot who could not get on step by step until he became an operational pilot . |
| 5 | If this had been the case I may possibly have been offered some cosmetic surgery , but this wo n't happen because it 's a natural part of pregnancy . |
| 6 | ‘ Well , I did not , and I must actually have been in the gardens . |
| 7 | I believed that I should again have been running the anchor leg , but our Director of Coaching decided otherwise . |
| 8 | Except that we were never completely apart , my love , for you were always beside me , and you were always there , and I think that without you there there were times when I should certainly have been crushed by the weight of a Crown I did not really want . |
| 9 | I was running the wrong race ; I should never have been entered for it in the first place . |
| 10 | ‘ I 'm going to use a video of the incident to prove I should never have been sent off , ’ said Jackson . |
| 11 | He said I should never have been sent there . |
| 12 | ‘ It was pure sex , and I should never have been so damn crazy ! |
| 13 | In my view I should never have been admitted to the about being over 18 . |
| 14 | I could have run away , but I had no money and , even if I had been able to borrow it , I should still have been too frightened because I had nowhere to run to . |
| 15 | If I had been of the view , which I am not , that it was open to the rule making authority , whether by accident or design , in any way to remove powers which the Act has given to the court , I should still have been of opinion that the judge had the powers which he clearly wished to have . |
| 16 | If I ran home , I should only have been sent straight back , in even deeper disgrace . |
| 17 | Flora , of course , was nothing like my poor little mother , nor was her situation comparable , but one can not help being affected by memories , however irrelevant they may be , and , thinking of that other middle-aged woman deserted by her young lover , made me sorrier for Flora than I might otherwise have been . |
| 18 | I am grateful for that because it enables me to provide him with a fuller response on those points than I might otherwise have been able to do . |
| 19 | Come on , Ryan , gullible I might once have been . |
| 20 | I do n't regret it , of course — I might never have been a priest otherwise — but I often think that that 's why I just do n't seem able to come to grips with the modern world . ’ |
| 21 | Although evidence that Sheffield did any work appears lacking , his might well have been the activity reported by Dickson . |
| 22 | The omission is meaningless : I could well have been delighted , although I ca n't remember whether I had actually begun to think consciously about weight in terms of stones and pounds at this time . |
| 23 | I could easily have been overawed , I 've been thoroughly on edge all week . |
| 24 | Our respective manners proved so widely different , that it would have been quite presumptuous in me to do anything but separate from an undertaking upon which I could only have been a clog . ’ |
| 25 | Without the work they did , I could never have been Prime Minister , others could never have been cabinet ministers , nor would we have as many women members of parliament as we have today . |
| 26 | Three years ago , Slater said , ‘ I predicted that there would be no more major RISC announcements , and then came Alpha — I could still have been right . ’ |
| 27 | The water was close , I could almost have been lying in it . |
| 28 | The police say someone could easily have been killed . |
| 29 | I do n't want to detail the mistakes I made and quite clearly I have done things quite differently the second time around — otherwise , I 'd probably have been out of a job again at Sheffield Wednesday . |
| 30 | There certainly was n't time for thought just now , and had there been I 'd probably have been sick . ’ |