Example sentences of "i [modal v] [verb] be [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I may have been a more enthusiastic scholar if they had been ! ’ |
| 2 | Just because I may have been a little short-tempered of late — ’ |
| 3 | The press release the editors sent me was acceptable , but I may have been the only person to get it . |
| 4 | I ought to I ought to 've been the bloody brainiest in country me |
| 5 | From outside , the church looked very old , and deserted , and I began to wonder why I had come ; and I must have been a little late , because in the perfect stillness within , the members of the congregation already knelt — like statues , some caught in a swath of rainbow light where the rising sun shone through a stained-glass window , splashing the bowed heads and bent shoulders with crimson , royal blue , emerald and gold . |
| 6 | I sent the cheque back , saying that although it had been immensely good of them to bring me up , I must have been a great burden and was now a disappointment , so I would prefer them to keep this money as some repayment for all they had done . |
| 7 | I must have been a constant reminder of her , and he could n't bear it . ’ |
| 8 | " Sometimes I think I must have been a horse in a previous incarnation . " |
| 9 | But I think I can take it that I must have been a little — er — unsteady with my actions . |
| 10 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | I must have been the greatest bore ever , and it 's a wonder that those I inflicted my views upon did n't rebel . |
| 13 | ‘ I must have been the thorn between the roses , ’ he said , with some satisfaction . |
| 14 | If I found there was no coffee in the house I 'd shout and swear at her and I must have been an absolute pain to live with . |
| 15 | And that I should think is a source of this . |
| 16 | They say I should 've been a member of Leith branch . |
| 17 | I should have been a lesbian ! |
| 18 | I should have been a bit a bit clearer about that . |
| 19 | I should have been a detective , she thought , as her journey ended . |
| 20 | ‘ I should have been an accountant or an administrator instead of a doctor ! |
| 21 | I should have been an actress . |
| 22 | In the circumstances I should have been the good daughter , studious and uninterested in boyfriends . |
| 23 | ‘ Do n't think you 've heard the last of this matter , ’ he said through his teeth , ‘ you wo n't get away with it , taking from me my home and my birthright , I should have been the eldest son , I am more worthy of the position . |
| 24 | I should have been the hero of the game but I will always be known as the one who lost it . |
| 25 | The reaction to that speech - and my reaction to that , the attempt to explain and apologise — put a firm stop to any hope I might have had that I might have been a candidate for leadership of the party . ’ |
| 26 | Later I learned that the wedding had nearly been postponed , as the two families thought I might have been a terrorist uttering a veiled warning against the nuptials . |
| 27 | Again those expressions of disgust : I might have been a leopard trapped by big-game hunters , when mercy did not enter into their thoughts . |
| 28 | I might have been the butterfly I 'd watched enmeshed on the hanging geranium in Auntie 's backyard . |
| 29 | So what , what I 'll shall do it was fourteen pounds no what I 'll do is the whole amount and if she says any thing I say . |
| 30 | All I could offer was a hatchback whose tyres puncture as soon as it catches sight of anything other than motorway . |