Example sentences of "[that] [pers pn] [vb mod] have be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Would n't speak to me for six months , but then his natural goodness of heart , as well perhaps as his gradual realization that I might have been right , that perhaps I had saved him from a fate worse than death , made it impossible for him to keep it up . |
| 2 | She even had the audacity to suggest that I might have been ‘ carrying on ’ with Sir Vivien . |
| 3 | I knew now that I might have been foolish to have expected so much from Waite , but he had been the only person who 'd been willing to treat both kidnappers and hostages as human beings and to attempt some kind of understanding about how the situation could be resolved . |
| 4 | I was duly slapped down by my more knowledgeable tectonic seniors , and tried to forget the brief publication in question , but later work has now led me to suspect that I might have been right after all . |
| 5 | ‘ And it did n't occur to you that I might have been referring to you ? ’ |
| 6 | In fact , afterwards the doctor told me that the training had probably helped and that I might have been in a lot more serious trouble if I had not been so fit . |
| 7 | Because it suddenly occurs to me that I might have been left alone to get on with this assignment if my divisional head had n't beamed in on my activities and seen something she did n't like in my relationship with Rainbow . |
| 8 | ‘ Has it occurred to you that I nearly disturbed the murderer — that I might have been killed as well ? |
| 9 | ‘ You might think that I would have been happy to go on improving my golf handicap , ’ he said . |
| 10 | ‘ Cup rugby would also have appealed to me , but I 'm not so sure that I would have been so enthusiastic about playing in a league , ’ Cranmer says . |
| 11 | Had I been born in the Middle Ages , I knew that I would have been one of those retainers who stayed inside the castle and embroidered whilst the knights went off to slaughter the French . |
| 12 | Also aware that I was happier with the evasion that I would have been with a wrong answer … |
| 13 | If I 'd known that I would have been given a long lecture at the end of the day , well … ’ |
| 14 | At the end of the test I have to say that I would have been reasonably happy to work with any of the monitors on a long term basis . |
| 15 | ‘ Not that I would have been able to do much anyway , that thing 's a death trap ! |
| 16 | I was met by a very respectful group of Gordon Highlanders when I visted Aberdeen recently , when I said that I would have been on the line as well had I been in their position . |
| 17 | No , I would have done it exactly the same , I would have just hoped that I would have been as lucky as I have been . |
| 18 | It seems to me now that I must have been more than a little simple , because I received a telephone call from the home the very next day . |
| 19 | My expressing some Fear of being troublesome in coming so frequently , occasioned a great Variety of Invitations , both in Verse and Prose ; which I could seldom resist : And indeed her whole Behaviour to me was so extremely good-natur 'd and obliging , that I must have been the most ungrateful Person in the World , if I had not endeavour 'd to make some Return . |
| 20 | I had kept all the abuse that had been happening to me very much to myself — it seemed to me that I must have been very bad . |
| 21 | As I can remember very little about the rest of the day I presume that I must have been unconscious most of the time . |
| 22 | But I think I can take it that I must have been a little — er — unsteady with my actions . |
| 23 | ‘ For once , not Rosemary , though I 'm getting more and more desperate about not knowing what to do for the best , ’ he confessed , but went on to explain , ‘ I spent a lot of time yesterday in realising that I must have been a real wet blanket when Naylor announced your engagement on Saturday . ’ |
| 24 | I realized that I could have been in deep trouble there : I came close to inflicting a serious injury on Frank Dick . |
| 25 | I thought of all the warm beds that I could have been in and I kneaded my fingers that were going numb with cold . |
| 26 | ‘ After all you 've done in the past for Rosemary and me , and are still doing , ’ he went on , ‘ I got to thinking yesterday that I could have been a sight more energetic in letting you know how delighted I am that you 're going to marry my cousin . |
| 27 | Is there some development that I should have been made aware of ? ’ |
| 28 | It seems strange now , fifteen years on , that I should have been so conscious of this . |
| 29 | By four o'clock , I knew from the morning 's reckoning that I should have been able to see the Land Rover . |
| 30 | It seemed to me that he was colder now , disappointed that I should have been found to have anything so hostile as escape equipment in my pockets . |