Example sentences of "[noun] [vb mod] have been [prep] his " in BNC.
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| 1 | All those lands have water , either acknowledged as lakes , or in winter pools throughout the poor , snipe-grass farmland ; how lovely the light must have been to his eyes . |
| 2 | In this case , Aldfrith would have been in his early fifties when he became king , yet his marriage to Cuthburh , sister of Ine , king of the West Saxons ( ASC A , s.a 718 ) ( unlikely to have occurred earlier ) , and his subsequent fathering of Osred , born c . |
| 3 | The waiter says this man used to live here until 15 years ago , and the bright boats bobbing on the undulating water of the main harbour would have been at his front door . |
| 4 | He had expected that any change in his routine would have been of his own making , not hers . |
| 5 | I am not sure what Harold Brodkey may have been in his last incarnation , but he has now reached that most enviable of all earthly states , that of the American cult writer . |
| 6 | In 1899 he lost his much-loved daughter , Josephine , and this sad event may have been in his mind when he wrote the emotive story , They . |
| 7 | The Liverpool manager should have been with his goal-starved squad when they flew to Cyprus for an important cup match tonight . |
| 8 | So if that was Jim cos Jim would 've been in his he has n't laid |
| 9 | Back at Gayflowers , the florists where one of the last sightings of James and the two boys was made , Eric Teare said he thought that one of the boys may have been in his shop . |