Example sentences of "[pers pn] [modal v] have been [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the same time it must be remembered that the occupations of a quarter of the inhabitants were not stated ; some of them must have been farmers , and it is quite conceivable that many of the omissions were the result of uncertainty as to whether or not to class the persons in question as agricultural or industrial . |
| 2 | According to Eadmer there were over sixty in about 1080 , and a high proportion of them must have been Englishmen of the old foundation . |
| 3 | We sipped them gratefully , but I must have been miles away , for Mr Johnson said , ‘ Daydreaming , eh ? ’ |
| 4 | I must have been spot on his wavelength for I never left the quiet room after one of his healings without a sense , almost of VROOOOM ! |
| 5 | That was the last , , I should have been market trader , been shouting out that voice and |
| 6 | I said she could have taken a degree in her spare time in th she 's only she 's not yet forty I said that 's absolute rubbish I said th the world is full of these damn women going around saying , if only I had n't had children I could have been Lord Chief Justice of England , I said , it is n't true ! |
| 7 | And I think I , I would just needed to say the word and I could have been Provost myself but I did n't really feel that I would be able to control the council , I think that was my impression at this . |
| 8 | 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 |
| 9 | I would have been boss eyed before I got out of Lynn , I could feel it you know , squint through |
| 10 | I would have been miles away instead of leaving a message for you where to find me . ’ |
| 11 | Possibly because some of them might 've been councillors and knew the ways that sort of er things went on and how to get things done officially and above board . |
| 12 | Each one of them could have been double-bogeys or worse ! |
| 13 | They thought she may have been sleep walking . |
| 14 | I do n't , you must have been miles away this morning . |
| 15 | Badgers have got a name for being vicious creatures , but Teka has taken to people so well Maggie thinks she must have been hand reared from birth . |
| 16 | She might have been Eve , as Milton has pictured her , sitting upon the green bank , looking into the pool . |
| 17 | If she could have been part of a warm , loving family , it was what she would have liked most of all . |
| 18 | Remembering the Welsh love of nicknames , I said , ‘ Then you 'd have been Neil the Squeal . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ I thought for a minute you could have been Billy sitting there , ’ she said as she put the tea down on the desk . |
| 20 | There have been many Sir Johns , and you could have been Sir John yourself . ’ |
| 21 | He imagined she would have been charm personified if she wanted something from him , but offhand and dismissive if she had not . |
| 22 | I picked up The New Principles of Gardening , a leather-bound tome by Batty Langley ( d. 1751 ) and wondered when she would have been b . |
| 23 | A psychologist gave an assessment of the mother/daughter relationship thus : ‘ The classic anorexia symptoms are sometimes inherited and , as Kylie 's mother was a ballerina , she would have been weight obsessed all her life . |
| 24 | Had she found my son 's body she would have been disconsolate , certainly too shocked and distressed to talk to you now . |
| 25 | Oh admittedly you would have been pig sick when a king would have , but even if the king had turned up you 'd have still got the , got a run and fifteen . |
| 26 | We must have been fules , you see , to have took all that trouble to level our things up ! ’ |
| 27 | Instead we might have been strangers . |
| 28 | We might have been livestock that he was assessing for slaughter . |
| 29 | But my mother knew who it was , so she quickly hid Molly underneath the stairs and that was that , otherwise we might have been brothers-in-law . |
| 30 | In a better place and time , we 'd have been friends . |