Example sentences of "have be [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But there would 've been nobody would have stolen bodies here though . |
| 2 | There could 've been something there , someone I 'd met in the past that might open another door . ’ |
| 3 | Could 've been something falling over onstage , or a light-bulb blowing … but something inside me knew it was serious . |
| 4 | Er you saw the er saw him five years ago in the navy , now it could 've been just a regular check which every seaman gets or it could be , it could 've been something of a serious nature . |
| 5 | it should 've been something like this . |
| 6 | Ma McKeown said thirteen must 've been her lucky number because she never had no more after that one . |
| 7 | You could 've been her daughter . ’ |
| 8 | It must 've been her . ’ |
| 9 | It could 've been him , you never know . |
| 10 | Ask , just ask him , it might 've been him . |
| 11 | In one fell swoop she moves from looking like Adeva 's mum to superstuff queen bitch on ‘ It Should 've Been Me ’ . |
| 12 | ‘ Nahh , could 've been anybody ? |
| 13 | Er of course as I say , they er this was the ma the maternity bill I think was , would , would 've been my mother 's day more than mine you see because I mean then yo the woman did n't get the maternity allowance and |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | that Robert 's already gone over , but I actually got the impression that erm I that you did n't feel relaxed in what you were doing , you knew what you were talking about but erm you did n't feel relaxed and if I 'd 've been your customer then I , I certainly would n't have felt relaxed either and and that 's the impression that I got which was the completely opposite of Robert . |
| 16 | ‘ It must 've been someone walking home from the pub . ’ |
| 17 | it might 've been someone from cafe phoning up |
| 18 | ‘ Should 've been you , ’ Hoomey said . |
| 19 | And after a while you know it was without the women we would 've been you know nothing . |
| 20 | at two o'clock on Saturdays and whizzes round the town doing wheelies round the town so I said to him last night Scott sit down I want you to read something , I said take a good look at the paper , I said it could 've been you , doing that , you think you 're so fucking clever and big running round the town , I said it only takes you to lose control go up the bloody curb and bang , that 's what happened , I said think about what the hell you 're doing |
| 21 | If I could 've worn a red jersey that would 've been it . |
| 22 | But I say , it should 've been it should 've been all d I mean everybody 's known about this chiller for a long while and it 's as I say , I mean when was here it was costing a thousand pound a time . |
| 23 | We must accept that for any given F , if x has F , x has it necessarily ; i.e. all the properties that x has are its defining properties . |
| 24 | Layton put it somewhat differently when he added that ‘ the two great qualities a young writer has are his arrogance and inexperience , ’ and on another occasion he picked out the twin characteristics of ‘ precocity and independence . ’ |
| 25 | Perhaps its remoteness has been its saving grace , coupled with the fact that by the nineteenth century the Pinney family who had built it deemed it too small and dim to live in and moved to their other house of Racedown , a mile up the road . |
| 26 | The single most important aspect of the policy has been its introduction of training and enterprise councils — TECs , in the acronym-speak that clogs up all talk of the labour market . |
| 27 | Since 1977 the main focus of British R&D into geothermal energy has been its so-called hot dry rocks project ( HDR ) , based at a disused granite mine in Cornwall . |
| 28 | A clear characteristic of the English public education service has been its dislocation and separation from the business community . |
| 29 | Apart from this attractive coloration , part of this species ' desirability has been its rarity , while another factor is its reputation as an extremely difficult fish to work with . |
| 30 | And her dispatches indeed reveal a bombshell : that despite protestations to the contrary in white American fiction , race has been its subject matter all the time . |