Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] be [indef pn] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Must have been somebody else . |
| 2 | Her self-confidence never recovered , since if her belief was right there must have been something else wrong with her , some terrible ugliness from which he had fled even into the arms of an older woman . |
| 3 | There must have been something else . ’ |
| 4 | There must have been something specially feline about that particular note , because Gautier carried out experiments to see if he could fool the cat , but she always responded with her critical paw precisely when the note reached high A. |
| 5 | There must have been someone else around . |
| 6 | ‘ There must have been someone else involved at some point . |
| 7 | Whoever had called him must have been someone very powerful to make the head of the KGB jump like that . |
| 8 | Almost certainly , a Spitfire , although there might have been something else called a … |
| 9 | A borough might not have covered the same area as a township , and a parish might have been something completely different . |
| 10 | There could 've been something there , someone I 'd met in the past that might open another door . ’ |
| 11 | Who could vote was something else . |
| 12 | ‘ It could have been somebody else , ’ said Owen . |
| 13 | Several people had tokens in their hands that had come out of what they hoped was a pile of ‘ blancmange ’ — there were plenty of cows in the field beforehand , so it could have been something else . |
| 14 | Could have been someone else . |
| 15 | I mean , it could have been lots worse . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ There may have been something there . ’ |
| 17 | His statement is misleading : ‘ Tempo di menuetto ’ may have been anything but fast , but as we have seen , Allegretto tempos are a different matter . |
| 18 | Your father , Dermot told us a lot of course — I 'm sure your mother would have been none too pleased , if she knew , but his first loyalty was always to the cause . |
| 19 | If it had not been Con Gallagher it would have been someone else . ’ |
| 20 | There were plenty of Garda around , and there ought to have been plenty more , as I saw a group of wild children steal chocolates from a shop and then run off down the road . |
| 21 | ‘ And if that is the case , this will have been one more long , expensive waste of time . ’ |