Example sentences of "but i [modal v] [verb] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The press release the editors sent me was acceptable , but I may have been the only person to get it . |
| 2 | ‘ But I would have been through here sooner or later anyway . |
| 3 | ‘ I now have a wonderful little boy who is absolutely perfection , ’ she says , ‘ I know I might have had another wonderful child but I would have been riddled with doubt for most of its life . ’ |
| 4 | I appreciate your help , but I would have been all right . ’ |
| 5 | But I would have been married and happily . ’ |
| 6 | But I might have been speaking to a corpse , she was so pale and still and silent . |
| 7 | Well I said I would go , but I might have been like un-elected |
| 8 | But I 'll say is it on the gardening page , is it on the letters page , pray for the sports page I always say and people look at me quite you know with a quite a look on their face when I sort of say that and I 'm absolutely serious , I 'll say you know if you get a four paragraph story on the gardeners ' page , you 're home . |
| 9 | But I could have been wrong and I had no means of checking my suspicions . |
| 10 | There was no mistaking his bulk , but I could have been fooled by Jo if I had n't known her . |
| 11 | ‘ But I should have been told of your arrival , ’ the Baron went on . |
| 12 | But I 'd have been wrong . ’ |
| 13 | I hate to disillusion you , but I 'd have been hard pressed to come out on top with those odds ! ’ |
| 14 | I tried to stare my dislike into him but I must have been unsuccessful for he merely said with a primitive accent : ‘ Good in auto , yes ? ’ and grinned . |
| 15 | We sipped them gratefully , but I must have been miles away , for Mr Johnson said , ‘ Daydreaming , eh ? ’ |
| 16 | And erm I think I was in the middle somewhere , I was n't er brilliant but I must have been somewhere in the middle I suppose . |