Example sentences of "she [modal v] have [be] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although Mr Cross was perturbed at his strange encounter , he dismissed his consternation and decided that she must have been a village girl who had watched the train and then returned home . |
| 2 | I figured she must have been a masochist . |
| 3 | ‘ She must have been a woman of great taste . ’ |
| 4 | Many considered she should have been a member of the royal commission on population ( 1946–9 ) but she did give evidence and published her widely read The Population of Britain in 1947 . |
| 5 | With that spirit and her inventive brain , she should have been a boy , and together they would have run the world . |
| 6 | With her mass of dark hair , her so-called classical features , and a slender body , she might have been a Klimt model clad in sober woollies instead of erotic raiment . |
| 7 | For all I knew she might have been a psycho or a girl with a little blackmail on her mind . |
| 8 | Hoping for elegance ( such a strive ) and wishing she was taller for , although her figure was fine , given the height , two inches or four , she might have been a model . |
| 9 | She might have been a linguist , but he doubted it ; after all , the pictures told the story , language was not important . |
| 10 | In any other circumstances , Fabia felt that she might have been a trace worried — it was n't every day that she was in a foreign land , with a foreign male who , having fed her , tried his hand at seducing her . |
| 11 | She could have been a dancer if she 'd taken lessons . |
| 12 | She could have been a kitchen maid for all we know and your children … |
| 13 | She was wearing no make-up ; she could have been a girl fresh from the country . |
| 14 | She could have been a stranger . |
| 15 | She swivelled round on her heel , and struck a pose with her left hip thrown sideways , and her cigarette hand extended in a rather classical way She could have been a model , people always said so . |
| 16 | So , although interpreting her character nowadays , she is quite immoral and dishonest , to the Christian audience in those days , she would have been a heroine . |
| 17 | I accept from Mr that she would have been a trainee manager for some part of that time and I assess her salary as being something like seven thousand pounds net . |
| 18 | Had the yacht not lost her mast during one of the Lymington autumn series races last year , she would have been a contender for top boat . |