Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [modal v] [verb] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The community church started in a home and to wear them would have been distinctly odd . |
| 2 | Did you think I might have been here then ? ’ |
| 3 | I do n't think I would 've been married fifty eight years . |
| 4 | But if they had n't been there , if they had been different kinds of men erm , I do n't think I would have been able to pick someone to be my husband or my partner who could be a decent father to my kids . |
| 5 | ‘ Without that I do n't think I 'd have been able to leave home at 17 , be mature enough to manage my own career and be in a steady relationship for three-and-a-half years . |
| 6 | I do n't think I 'd have been more so had the door opened on , say , a Teddy Bear , redolent of the fabulous Oxford of Evelyn Waugh . |
| 7 | I do n't think I 'd have been warm enough in a shellsuit . |
| 8 | Erm and at that ti but other than that , mind you I su I suppose that if , if I 'd been at home I should have probably been expected to be in , but I do n't think I should have been locked out . |
| 9 | ‘ I do n't think I could stand being a nurse because I would get too involved , so I hope one day to join the fire brigade , ’ she said . |
| 10 | Do you think I could have been as I was with you if I was already heavily involved with someone else ? ’ |
| 11 | As the days passed I might have been telling him the truth , for I lost weight far more successfully than on any diet I have ever attempted . |
| 12 | Well I know I know is the only one that realised I would 've been more shocked if had yeah I would have been out on the pavement here whistling with a banjo whistling Dixie there you are that one no not yet no . |
| 13 | I mean I may have been being a bit naive as a general sort of , just a rep within NALGO , I 'm not I 'm not , although I 've had all the publicity , and yes I 'm , sometimes you do not the course . |
| 14 | Now with this one the one we 've just done you do n't really know how far to go I mean I might have been going to ask erm how long has he been travelling if he 's been riding for a thousand hours . |
| 15 | Fortune having smiled on them , and I mean if it had n't been for a lump of expanded foam out of one of the life boats that had blown up at , if it had n't come floating past me , I mean I would have been a goner as well , but I got hold of that . |
| 16 | bit here and I thought god that so I thought right I 'm gon na change places in that seat but your father 's sitting on , alright , I said go in that back seat , just behind us there were there or I said or I 'm just coming to sit where you are , I said I ca n't do four hours sitting like this , I mean I 'd have been boss eyed before I got , well I was I , I , all say look at that cloud |
| 17 | I mean I can remember being underneath the platform , being on fire and I mean I I just kept saying to myself that this was n't really happening . |
| 18 | ‘ You mean I could have been discussing it with some of your clients , like the Contessa Mantero ? ’ |
| 19 | Nothing against him ( MUCH ! ) but if a brawl had developed and he ( Accidently ) got his legs broken I would have been full of sorrow ( NOT ! ) |
| 20 | The programmers who designed them may have been any of these things , but that is irrelevant . |
| 21 | I would prefer not to have my guy stand up and say I may have been involved in an assassination . ’ |
| 22 | They say I should 've been a member of Leith branch . |
| 23 | and as I cooled I could have been |
| 24 | When I got to Holloway I found I would have been entitled to take most of the things she would n't let me take , like a hairbrush . |
| 25 | ‘ If you had n't come I would have been up all night . ’ |
| 26 | Alternative plans are being considered which may have been discussed unofficially with the Scottish Office and the Office of Fair Trading to find out if they are acceptable . |
| 27 | I ca n't imagine why you 're refusing to acknowledge it , but there 's no denying you must have been there . ’ |
| 28 | I do n't know she 'd have been better off here . |
| 29 | Since the Wilson Committee reported there may have been some improvement in the availability of bank finance for small businesses . |
| 30 | Had his sons ruled , they say there would have been a golden age . ’ |