Example sentences of "[pers pn] have be " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
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| 1 | I can see I have been a great burden to you . |
| 2 | And what would I have been without . |
| 3 | Oh God , he thought , how could I have been so stupid , so blind . |
| 4 | How could I have been so heartless ? ’ |
| 5 | could n't I have been left alone |
| 6 | Why could n't I have been born to be successful and brainy ? |
| 7 | Could I have been dreaming ? |
| 8 | How could I have been so irresponsible , putting my foolish ambitions before Richard and my children ? |
| 9 | Gladly would I have been in the condition of dog or horse , for I knew they had no soul to perish under the everlasting weights of Hell as mine was like to do . ’ |
| 10 | How could I have been such a fool as to take him seriously ? |
| 11 | ( Oh dear , I had not thought to check the lunar date ; how could I have been so silly ? ) |
| 12 | Gently he added , ‘ And what use would I have been , angel ? ’ |
| 13 | How could I have been so simple , naive ? |
| 14 | ‘ Why should I have been ? ’ |
| 15 | ‘ How could I have been so stupid ? ’ |
| 16 | Should I have been told before this ? |
| 17 | How could I have been such a fool ? ’ she wailed through her tears . |
| 18 | ‘ How could I have been taken in by his charm ? ’ |
| 19 | But oh , she thought , tearlessly watching Mrs Greville leave , how could I have been so deceived — and twice at that … ? |
| 20 | ‘ And should n't I have been the first person to have known about them ? |
| 21 | How could I have been so blind to have let you go … ? ’ |
| 22 | My own case dragged on for months , swamped with innuendos — if another student was having a clandestine consensual affair , why could n't I have been too ? |
| 23 | They 're over the river by this time , and so should I have been if you had not come so prompt to your hour . |
| 24 | Can I have be bold ? |
| 25 | How could she have been so blind ? |
| 26 | How many of these songs could she have been singing to her daddy ? |
| 27 | Nor could she have been aware of the matey tap with which the russet radical awoke the aforementioned scribe in the morning , a cup of tea grasped in his proletarian fist . |
| 28 | Would she have been a normal and contented woman had she not been Nicolae 's sister , or did her willingness to abuse every chance to profiteer from her position and to humiliate those she disliked reflect a deeply unpleasant cast in the Ceauşescu genes ? |
| 29 | Would she have been drinking before she arrived there , do you think ? ’ |
| 30 | Nor would she have been , if it had not been for him . |