Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb mod] have be [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Conceive what I must have been at fourteen , ’ he reminisced to James Gillman , his first biographer . |
| 2 | I must I must have been I must have been on good form that day |
| 3 | Well , I must have been in first year juniors . |
| 4 | I can honestly say I ca n't remember a show I definitely did n't like doing , although I might have been in some that did n't turn out as I though they would . ’ |
| 5 | I realized that I could have been in deep trouble there : I came close to inflicting a serious injury on Frank Dick . |
| 6 | otherwise I would have been on two fifty . |
| 7 | Bishop said : ‘ It really was panic stations , but luckily they delayed the plane for half an hour otherwise I would have been in real trouble . ’ |
| 8 | You must have been in full-time employment for a fixed time before you can claim ? |
| 9 | She must have been in one of those baskets in the back of the car , Ruth supposed . |
| 10 | , take some photographs of car parks , should of been there weeks ago and she and you have to be ready for , she should have been in this week how he 's going to get them to do that , there 's a train , there 's a er few hours service or what , it 's gon na cost a bomb And he 'll probably end up paying for it cos he I do n't know whether he 's doing it or not , it 's what he should of been doing . |
| 11 | WHO DO YOU THINK YOU MIGHT HAVE BEEN IN PREVIOUS LIVES ? |
| 12 | For a while , she thought she could have been at any moderately boring Christmas party . |
| 13 | Back home she 'd have been in some nice comfortable clinic . |
| 14 | If I had my way you 'd have been off this boat days ago . |
| 15 | Very much , in fact the chances were coming your way before the goals went in , you could have been on level terms an awful lot earlier . |
| 16 | If Kirsty had fallen ill once they were down in London she would have been forced to stay there until she 'd recovered — and then she would have been in serious trouble , not only with Jake but with the law as well . |
| 17 | I 'm sure sh you know she would have been in dire trouble er only for my mother having seen her limping that day , but that 's the sort of thing she would do . |
| 18 | Had we done that er you would have er you would have been in queer street . |
| 19 | The moonless sky was overcast , and gliding into an opaque blackness we might have been in outer space . |
| 20 | The first visit to Brussels , the amend , the first visit to Brussels we had to go and bail you out because the Commission , the Commission , we could have been in this er |
| 21 | We must never forget , mind , either you or me , if it had n't been for Mrs Aggie and her yard , God knows where we would have been at this minute . |
| 22 | Do you imagine that we are the way we are about money because of mother or because we would have been like that anyway ? ’ |
| 23 | This is the question which everyone ought to ask himself , and the only question — are we as a nation in a better position to prosecute the war as a consequence of it than we would have been by any other arrangement ? |
| 24 | They may have been of impermanent materials , such as wood , or the countries may have suffered greater devastation than their neighbours . |
| 25 | They must have been at that game for ages — and no anaesthetics , either . |
| 26 | The Ministry did tell us not to waste effort growing flowers , but somehow one always felt they were not quite as right as they might have been on that one . |
| 27 | The adoption , for instance , of Darwinian views of evolution depended not simply on the intellectual breakthrough of a brilliant mind but on the conjuncture of social movements that made these propositions more acceptable then than they might have been at other periods . |
| 28 | They might have been like this for three centuries , and could be for three centuries more . |
| 29 | The company came in for quite a bit of stick with their new version of the Escort and if the Mondeo had not been well received they could have been in real trouble . |
| 30 | They were n't twins , but they could have been in some respects , she realised . |