Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] [be] [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ma McKeown said thirteen must 've been her lucky number because she never had no more after that one . |
| 2 | What must count is their present resources : their home , their pension , their health , their family , their friends , their psychic energy . |
| 3 | It must have been their sheer size and the impression of power you got even when they were standing still . |
| 4 | It must have been his personal estimation . |
| 5 | There was only one sound , a murmurous sighing that might have been her own blood in her ears . |
| 6 | might have been their own company life before they |
| 7 | I told her no messages had been sent and suggested that if Uncle was a businessman — I thought it better not to mention that we already knew he was a multi-millionaire businessman — he might naturally tend to be secretive and that he might also be reluctant to broadcast the fact that he had lost his yacht through what might have been his own fault . |
| 8 | We 've positioned the hob , oven and grill so the only thing you 'll stretch is your culinary skills . |
| 9 | I was a flying boy , came in here and all of a sudden was involved in an operation that , that was er quite intense erm the , the noise of the aircraft erm the erm hustle and bustle that we went through , the , the briefings and the er experience of , of erm having a meal that could 've been your last meal . |
| 10 | He could have been her phantom bridegroom sleeping and , overwhelmed , she slept . |
| 11 | It could have been her last name , or a state she like to exist in but I think it was a number involved . |
| 12 | An inquest 's heard how two singers died in a car crash just days before what could have been their biggest break . |
| 13 | The two meanings are ( i ) ‘ the astronaut entered the atmosphere for ( at least ) the second time ’ and ( ii ) ‘ the astronaut returned to the atmosphere ( after what could have been his/her first trip into space ) ’ . |
| 14 | shut up , because Alan said he said oh it could have been worse girl , it could have been his bleeding handle that 'll come off and do you know I 've got two left out of six , every handle 's come off , cracked |
| 15 | Jimmy Nichol is the manager of Raith Rovers but that could have been his last match in charge as he is one of the favorites for the Northern Ireland match |
| 16 | Artemis sat absolutely still in her bath , trying to hear what Rosie and the other maids were saying , but all she could hear were their silly giggles . |
| 17 | The nearest I could get was my first night in a barracks in Shropshire , at the start of National Service . |
| 18 | OLYMPIC cycling star Chris Boardman may have been our big winner at the Games , but the biggest winner of all was his little boy , Edward . |
| 19 | That may have been my first mistake . |
| 20 | This does n't mean that the others had no ‘ powers ’ , that they seemed to do little for me may have been my own lack of receptivity . |
| 21 | Mr Lawson 's summoning of Tina may have been his subtle way of saying that her policy for combating inflation was no alternative to his . |
| 22 | Klima 's first loves have a way of not working out ; and what may have been his longest affair is the one about which least is said . |
| 23 | Whatever may have been his public faults … he had many private virtues . ’ |
| 24 | As for Mike Lawrence , it may have been his last test flight , but he was determined to go out in flamboyant style |
| 25 | Leeds noted that ‘ scoriae ’ , cinders , were to be found on most of the surfaces within sunken buildings at the settlement at Sutton Courtenay , suggesting to him that ‘ every man may have been his own smith ’ ( Leeds 1936 , p. 24 . |
| 26 | He may have been your foster brother , but how could you gossip about something so … personal ? ’ |
| 27 | ‘ Pity , it may have been your last day off for I do n't know how long . ’ |
| 28 | If Cornhill could influence the outcome of Test Cricket , it would have been its patriotic duty to have done so by now . |
| 29 | For most it would have been their first experience of the internationalism of the movement . |
| 30 | That the magazine never got round to asking who might be the ‘ Sports Writers ' Sports Writer ’ seems like an act of wilful self-effacement , given that the overwhelming winner would have been their own man , Hugh McIlvanney . |