Example sentences of "[modal v] [pers pn] [adv] have be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Was it meant to be a chuckling advertisement for his own sensibility ; a tease about the gritty , unpolishable surface of the desert ; or might it just have been a joke on us ? |
| 2 | How could she ever have been taken in by Nigel Westwood ? |
| 3 | Could she really have been reading that ? he wondered , looking around for the novel stuffed behind a cushion . |
| 4 | But how could she possibly have been in danger ? |
| 5 | Could he ever have been in love with her ? |
| 6 | Could it also have been that the extent of available free labour resources had been exaggerated ? |
| 7 | Could it possibly have been Matthew ? |
| 8 | The cherries were most certainly stolen , but would I really have been a better person if I had left them on the plate ? |
| 9 | I realized that in fact she was absolutely determined on going , she had n't the imagination to act out this sort of scene to punish me , nor , to be fair , would she ever have been so spiteful if she had . |
| 10 | So would she really have been any less affected if it had happened to her now , at the age of twenty-five ? |
| 11 | This uncle who was also presumably the uncle of er , not only the Rivers ' children , but would he also have been the uncle of Re Mrs Reed 's |
| 12 | Would he still have been in collusion with his master ? |
| 13 | Will I always have been the same sex ? |
| 14 | Can it really have been much more than an up-market doss-house ? |