Example sentences of "have be [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 31 | If she and Tom had been two men he would have been discretion itself , she thought . |
| 32 | Thus while those TANU members concerned to achieve effective communication for the purpose of education and development preferred the press to radio , whose full potential they failed to recognize , there may have been others who realized that radio had powers to reach people which TANU had not . |
| 33 | Her many ‘ seeings ’ of Christ and the Holy Family may have been delusions which she actually lived through , as Ruskin lived through his conflicts with the Devil , or they may have been deliberately induced auto-hypnosis deriving from the Revelations of St Bridget , to whom Margery had a special devotion . |
| 34 | His desire to devastate our residential sector and close seventeen homes will be thwarted somebody over there , it may have been Mr it may not have been , said that there had n't been any redundancies . |
| 35 | Although this is the first recorded instance of a private undertaker being used by the royal household it is possible that they had been previously involved in some small way in royal funerals , for it is doubtful that the College of Arms provided coffins and it would seem probable that they contracted this out to the trade , to people such as William Russell — indeed , could it have been Russell who provided the coffin for Queen Mary in late December 1694 ? |
| 36 | Therefore Carol 's daughter is not Julie , whilst Donna was taken to see Mary Poppins , so it must have been Linda who went with Carol to see Jungle Book . |
| 37 | There must also have been readers who were led to reflect on Othello 's self-righteous murder of Desdemona , and to reflect that Shakespeare 's play expresses a view of mixed marriages which is both encouraging and discouraging . |
| 38 | ( It occurs to us that it may have been Durfey who sang Aeneas in the school production . |
| 39 | ‘ When we heard about poor Alain Gebrec being dead , I had a sudden vision of Dora looking furiously angry … you know how she sometimes glares at Dieter … and I thought for a moment … supposing it had been Dieter who 'd been killed … it might have been Dora who had … oh , I know it 's dreadful of me to think these things , but she hates him so much . ’ |
| 40 | Yeah and something else might have been netball I ca n't remember , something new . |
| 41 | But some of them will have been men who lived permanently within their lord 's gates , his closest companions , who , after several years ' service , might hope to be rewarded with fiefs . |
| 42 | high I 'm only coming out with a ten flush , pair of aces , and a pair of eights would have been mine whichever way you played it . |
| 43 | Well no that just might have been Rachael you were just been talking to . |
| 44 | ‘ It could n't possibly have been Eddie who impersonated Delia and anyway there 'd have been no point when she lives in the same house as Angy . ’ |
| 45 | It occurred to her that it could have been Antoinette herself watching them , but she dismissed that almost at once . |
| 46 | Many will have committed sexual offences that other prisoners find abhorrent ; some will have been informers who helped the police in the hope of obtaining a shorter sentence and still others may have built up debts inside prison that they can not repay . |
| 47 | No French nation was waiting in 1500 to emerge in the concept of France ; and it could just as well have been Burgundy which assumed that role . |
| 48 | ‘ To be fair , ’ the prince pointed out generously , ‘ in this case it seems to have been Owen who took the offensive . ’ |
| 49 | * ‘ The last major wooden ( actually composite ) passenger sailing ship seems to have been Torrenns which ceased carrying passengers to Adelaide in 1903 . |
| 50 | Apples of gold referred to in the Bible — ‘ A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver ’ — are thought to have been apricots which abounded in the Holy Land and were introduced into Palestine from Armenia . |
| 51 | On that third morning , though , it had been Haynes who led out the home team , since Richards was in the press box breathing fire at Daily Express journalist James Lawton who had asked him for an explanation of the V-sign he had given to his own crowd . |
| 52 | The British critic Bryher regarded the film as ‘ the first authentic comment on the War ’ , praised particularly the depiction of enlistment , and poured scorn on those other British critics who had disliked the film 's suggestion that it had been America who had won the war . |
| 53 | However , it had been d'Arquebus who returned along that terrifying , tormenting tunnel … had it not ? |
| 54 | It had been Marcus who turned up at the Evans house on Saturday afternoon when Pascoe was there . |
| 55 | It had been DeVore who had befriended him . |
| 56 | If she had been Nick she would have cried , or at least put on a hurt face . |
| 57 | Women had been on the paper since the beginning — with Maureen McGrath as news editor- and it had been women who had been providing the typesetting , the listings , the ad selling . |
| 58 | Mia 's lawyer said : ‘ If there had been threats he 'd call the cops . ’ |
| 59 | According to Lotta it had been Rune who had stormed out , taking the painting with him , which meant what ? |
| 60 | After all it had been Bliss who had warned him that Nadirpur was embroiled with the Pessarane Behesht , Bliss who had informed him that the real cargo was arms . |