Example sentences of "[pron] [vb mod] have [be] [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I could have been either side that was playing you up . |
| 2 | Luton 's loss FOOTBALL : Luton 's annual reports and accounts for last season yesterday showed they made a trading loss of £254,000 , which would have been nearly £1.6 million if they had not sold players . |
| 3 | " I do n't reckon you 'd 'ave to , my dear soul , " observed another old woman , who must have been well past seventy . |
| 4 | I believe my friend is shaking her head yes , so we must have been also part of the route . |
| 5 | He knows what shots sound like because he hunts , but he still thinks they might have been only firecrackers . |
| 6 | I could hear vague noises for a bit , but even straining I could n't make out what they were , and they could have been just noises on the line . |
| 7 | ‘ Then they would have been here hours ago . |
| 8 | In real terms the average incomes of lone parents have fallen — if their incomes had gone up in line with the Retail Price Index then they would have been about £12 per week higher in 1989 . |
| 9 | Before 1914 they would have been mainly peasant-workers commuting twice a year to the cities , gentry and their numerous domestic servants moving from their estates to town , kustari with their wares for sale , government servants , and the military , etc . |
| 10 | It may have been largely thanks to Lewis that Williams became something of a cult figure , idolized by pious lady dons , aspirant mystics and others . |
| 11 | It may have been only perception — but the customers were put off and that 's what mattered . |
| 12 | No it must have been just coincidence . |
| 13 | He might have been forever boy looked at Debbie Harry 's punk rock knickers/ex-Julie Burchill 's old man , but he 's not . |