Example sentences of "have be [adv] " in BNC.

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1 Nudge up a bit I mean it could 've been tonight .
2 You should 've been here yesterday fore .
3 Should 've been here yesterday forenoon ! ,
4 And when I came back , Bobby I gave Grant they and erm he must 've been pretty desperate because he did a wee wee before we left and he did a wee wee before
5 Even the soldiers in the field must 've been thoroughly sick of all those whining pieces about Our Boys and Girls , and their mail , or the endlessly recycled nonsense about how hard it was to be a female soldier in Saudi Arabia .
6 In , in this one it might 've been slightly easier because everything was spelled out you had to do you had to do carpenting , you had to do electrical .
7 Police think it could 've been just a dirty night out .
8 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 .
9 must 've been already off though
10 And then the next biggest then well Howar would 've been somewhere about sixty acre and Kilbest was roughly about the same I think .
11 Erm but the reality is that erm we would therefore need our budget to , in fact for the first half of this year , to have , well for the whole year , to have reflected the late delivery of the systems which would 've , if we 'd had that in the budget and we 'd been projecting the whole budget at say two point six , our budget figure would 've been somewhere in the region of another eighty to ninety thousand higher than it currently is for this first quarter .
12 Well this is erm as I say we , we , we could 've been somewhere in the region of two hundred and fifty thousand just on the I T issues alone .
13 He must 've been dead eighteen years .
14 And the whole thing was wrecked the whole the the erm the floors in each er flat was one big circle of stone er about er it would 've been about twelve
15 Of all the hedges I 've seen they 've been about eighteen two foot , about that far apart
16 Yeah , he 's , he 's into ev oh it must 've been about six or eight weeks ago he started saying a couple of things and I thought oh he 's coming now , but it stopped I think I got excited when he started saying dark , but that 's as far as it got , int it ?
17 That 's not bad at all cos you thought it might 've been about nine hundred with them other two did n't you ?
18 If you 'd 've just switched it on when I come in it 'd 've been totally different .
19 I had a very strong idea of what I wanted , even through I had plenty of photos : I knew exactly the kind of movements I was looking for , I 'm glad we did it in two — I do n't think the cricketer would 've been very keen to do it again ! ’
20 No I think , I thought we still had a chance , albeit you know the odds had gone down a bit or increased , but er no I thought we still had a chance , it was gon na be harder because if we lost any more by the wayside then you know you 're gon na be , it would 've been very awkward .
21 It was and yet , I 'm losing my thread with , what I was going to say was , it must 've been so important because an in that you could get anything you liked .
22 So , she starts quizzing me and I start nattering on about the bloody Brontes — I think Mrs Fleming must 've been really intelligent when she was young , honest-to-god she was firing them at me faster than Bamber Gascoigne , she says to me : ‘ And tell me , Karen , how are you going to deal with the themes of Repressed Sexuality in the Brontes ' work ? ’
23 Everybody says , ‘ Oh , you won £44,000 in the world championships , you must 've been really pleased with that , ’ but it 's not just the money , it 's being able to pick up the trophy at the end — that 's the nice thing .
24 I suppose I could 've been too cool ! ’
25 She would 've been all fat there once , and a baby growing inside of her .
26 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 .
27 Now if , if you accept the ten percent owning the eighty percent , there must 've been enough but the poor are not getting it .
28 How , how old would you 've been then ?
29 There must 've been with erm in forty seven was it the encirclement campaign where they allowed the nationalists to sort of drive through the , I do n't know the defences , they must 've been fairly certain of their support in certain areas by then .
30 so they must 've been fairly sure of their support to allow them to come into an area of villages .
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