Example sentences of "she [modal v] have [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | She must have been able to lick enough water to keep alive , ’ he said . |
| 32 | She must have been able to tell from my face how I felt about that . |
| 33 | ‘ She must have been distraught . ’ |
| 34 | Rudyard Kipling said of her : ‘ Being human , she must have been afraid of something , but one never found out what it was . ’ |
| 35 | I can sense her relief , she must have been afraid of an emotional scene . |
| 36 | ‘ She must have been terrified , an old woman like that … ’ |
| 37 | A very long time ago , she must have been pretty . |
| 38 | No doubt she should have been alarmed at this thought but she remained excited by it . |
| 39 | She should have been grateful . |
| 40 | She should have been ecstatic . |
| 41 | She should have been ravenous , but her appetite had faded . |
| 42 | The scales had fallen from her eyes and she saw all too clearly what perhaps she should have been aware of earlier . |
| 43 | ’ Right , ’ Mala said , with more crispness than she should have been able to produce . |
| 44 | And , despite the luxurious comfort of the aeroplane — in which she should have been able to relax her tired mind and body — she felt totally overwhelmed by the day 's events . |
| 45 | Nothing like this had ever happened to her before , and she should have been afraid . |
| 46 | She should have been electric blue . |
| 47 | She might have been present now . |
| 48 | Still , she might have been nicer to the kindly old man . |
| 49 | She might have been daft in some ways , but she knew what was in and what was out , did Mary M. She knew the right clubs to go to . |
| 50 | " Oh give her a lump of sugar , " he said ; she might have been one of his least favourite horses . |
| 51 | Miss but by god she had a good aim , she might have been bloody dotty |
| 52 | She might have been sixty or sixty-five . |
| 53 | Although she might have been wise to add that even the life of a Television Presenter 2nd Class is a doddle compared to packing frozen peas , doing a 12-hour nursing shift in an understaffed hospital ward or for that matter being married to David Mellor . |
| 54 | She might have been soft-hearted and vulnerable once , where he was concerned , but she was a lot older and wiser now . |
| 55 | She did n't sign , and whatever words she might have been able to lipread were lost because the lighting in the delivery room was terrible . |
| 56 | Mr Crichton said if Leslie had been armed with such a baton — which is standard issue for officers in the United States — she might have been able to protect herself . |
| 57 | Under different circumstances , she might have been able to appreciate the irony of it . |
| 58 | She could have wished it otherwise — then she might have been able to lose herself in the crowd . |
| 59 | Maybe , if she had been a little older or more sophisticated , she might have been able to cope with what had seemed at the time to be a never-ending series of disasters . |
| 60 | And she might have been able to deal with the situation — might , indeed , have been able to suppress and finally bury such an errant emotion — if it were n't for her present situation . |