Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] [vb mod] have be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Luckily , our man 's name began with a B or I would have been there all night . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ I felt it had to be my fault : I was a weak human being with no moral fibre or I would have been able to kick the habit . ’ |
| 3 | The greatest relief was that I had n't called in on my way down or I would have been with them . |
| 4 | I suspect they do n't think I 'd be identified by any of the witnesses or I 'd have been on an identity parade by now , but it just all looks so obvious : it must be me . |
| 5 | Or I 'd have been gone . ’ |
| 6 | Or I could have been a bit less awkward , and said , you just give me the positive one . |
| 7 | In Miss Weeton 's Journal of a Governess , she writes on 15th September 1810 : ‘ I would have introduced you to Mr. Green , who keeps an exhibition of drawings ( all his own ) in that village where you might have been amused for two or three hours-for he has a great number , two rooms being kept open for the purpose . |
| 8 | ‘ Or they should have sold you to some terrible household where you 'd have been treated like a dog . |
| 9 | ‘ To the pigs with the slops , where you should have been this mornin' , ’ replied his wife . |
| 10 | ‘ If you 'd been around where you should have been , then possibly Ace would n't have had to take such instant action to avoid Dara ! ’ |
| 11 | Carrie suddenly said , ‘ Your mum and I were worried about you , Seb , but all my dad could keep saying was , ‘ It 's a good job I managed to reach you when I did , or you 'd have been up at that farmhouse for another week . ’ ’ |
| 12 | It is obviously irrelevant to speculate on what if anything was in the mind of the clerk or other subordinate officer who actually received the money , or in the mind of the officer ( whoever he or she may have been ) who paid it into the bank to the defendants ' credit . |
| 13 | If you already have your own company sick pay scheme , it must pay the employee at least what he or she would have been entitled to on SSP . |
| 14 | It was a good thing she had n't known or she would have been self-conscious . |
| 15 | She had her difficulties , too , or she would have been with him by this ; but she was as much the prisoner of circumstances as he , and could not well take ship until she had established a firm and safe regime for her young son . |
| 16 | Chris had to hold on to the grab handle of the jeep or she would have been flung out . |
| 17 | Choose one of the four and try to work out what he or she must have been doing at each stage of the carnival . |
| 18 | ‘ Whoever it is has presumably been coming regularly since last November so he or she must have been seen by other people . |
| 19 | Or she could have been raped . |
| 20 | Returned to the invisibility of the home front , where we should have been all along , unaccounted for among the statistics of unemployment , stuck with the main responsibility for unpaid community care as the welfare state collapsed , women have seen the major characteristics of the depression of the 1980s depicted as male and youth unemployment , the destruction of men 's jobs , small businessmen going bankrupt and resentment turning to violence on the streets . |
| 21 | It is more likely to be about sore things from childhood , which we were not allowed properly to experience or mourn : or we may have been too young in emotional or physical development to cope . |
| 22 | In the end we just let the audience in or we 'd have been there all day . ’ |
| 23 | Thank God you got some expert help or we 'd have been hearing duck screams in our nightmares forever . ’ |
| 24 | From then on Leeds showed some good attacking play but thankfully Bright is a donkey who gets caught off-side alot or we 'd have been in trouble ( Newsome and wetherall look dodgy to say the least ) . |
| 25 | 7.4 Employees and their managers must complete this form and send it to the Employees Relations Officer at Department Headquarters , , not only in circumstances in which the employee has been physically hurt but also where they may have been abused or threatened in any way or subjected to racial or sexual harassment . |
| 26 | In fact , even the most basic repairs had been neglected for many years before that , so that structural problems developed where they might have been avoided . |
| 27 | Although insufficient to provide the full service , these bogie cars were worked hard on the main line and sometimes worked to Thornton Heath but never to Addiscombe or Penge , where they might have been too long for some of the passing loops on these lines . |
| 28 | They tried in vain to get the men transferred to a German Prisoner of War camp , where they would have been well treated . |
| 29 | Or they may have been hunters after larger prey , in which case when appendages are eventually discovered they may prove to have adaptations for grasping and manipulating larger food . |
| 30 | Her many ‘ seeings ’ of Christ and the Holy Family may have been delusions which she actually lived through , as Ruskin lived through his conflicts with the Devil , or they may have been deliberately induced auto-hypnosis deriving from the Revelations of St Bridget , to whom Margery had a special devotion . |