Example sentences of "he [vb mod] have be [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He should have been like that , happy with a wife and children . |
| 2 | Considering how many times he must have been through this script , there are a lot of ‘ ums ’ and ‘ you knows ’ and pauses , but eventually we get there . |
| 3 | What with all those houses , plus the school , he must have been worth close to a million pounds , give or take the odd thousand . |
| 4 | He had been Town Sergeant from 1846 , and a formidable character he must have been to any offender . |
| 5 | He started to give her expert directions and it was plain that he must have been to this particular establishment before . |
| 6 | He must have been on one or other of them every night , in weather much like this , all through that last summer of his life . |
| 7 | Fenella thought that it was a pity that Caspar was so scared of the giants , because he knew so much about Tara that he might have been of considerable help . |
| 8 | Bernard , harder on his own son than he might have been on any other twenty-three-year-old in the company was not keen , telling him he had no business experience . |
| 9 | Otherwise he might have been in serious trouble . |
| 10 | If his controller had taken her seriously , he might have been in real trouble . |
| 11 | If it had been left any longer he could have been in serious trouble . |
| 12 | He could have been behind any of the closed doors . |
| 13 | If he had been told that the prime sources of his immense and , mathematically , infinitely expanding wealth were invariably polluted with the deceits and bad faith of exploitation , cruelty , oppression , barbarism , murder and vicious wrongdoing , he would have been at first amazed , then outraged and finally contemptuous , disbelieving the information . |
| 14 | And he came down he would have been working for he would have been at that time my great grandfather maybe or and he came down and he lived in lower Millfield after that and just as soon as he was out of his house , they just had the house demolished . |
| 15 | At that time he would have been like many thousand of other youngsters , the sweepings of the hungry ‘ forties . |
| 16 | I sent money and a small gift for Harry : ‘ if you can speak to him , that is — he will have been in enough hot water already on my account … ’ |