Example sentences of "[modal v] [pers pn] have be " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Why should I have been ? ’ |
| 2 | Should I have been told before this ? |
| 3 | They 're over the river by this time , and so should I have been if you had not come so prompt to your hour . |
| 4 | ‘ Should you have been ? ’ |
| 5 | I thought all treatment was free on the N H S , do I have to pay and they answer no , nor should you have been sent the bill although the hospital was within its rights to make a charge for the emergency treatment fee . |
| 6 | Why should we have been followed on our arrival in Peru ? |
| 7 | If such is the character of these places now , what must they have been like when both men and livestock could only get around them by boat , and parishes such as Dogdyke in Lincolnshire had in the eighteenth century ‘ not two houses communicable for whole winters round ’ . |
| 8 | But how much more imposing must they have been when their eye sockets were equipped with staring eyes of black obsidian and white coral . |
| 9 | Whilst I entirely agree with Nochlin 's decision not to amend any of the articles ( ‘ despite the strong temptation to correct what I now know to be errors of fact or feel to be mistakes of interpretation ’ , p. xii ) , neither should they have been allowed to stand in an historical vacuum . |
| 10 | Although people in the Cape Town ballet world thought highly of his promise , John 's talent as a choreographer was not regarded as proved by the time he left South Africa ( at only eighteen , why should it have been ? ) , and other young choreographers were at least as highly thought of . |
| 11 | Why , for goodness sake , should it have been our planet ? |
| 12 | What should it have been ? |
| 13 | If Gould could be hyperactive and despotic at the best of times , how much more demanding must he have been in preparing for this journey of a lifetime . |
| 14 | If you had been an out-of-work farm hand near Inverness , or near Dumfries , why might you have been one of many who moved to Glasgow in the last century ? |
| 15 | If words such as scio and non dubito in the second half of the second century were not regarded as showing clear intention to set up trusts , might they have been after these cases ? |
| 16 | Or might they have been Tory voters fooled by Labour 's billboard poster of John Major wearing an SNP rosette ? |
| 17 | A township seemingly unaffected by Parliamentary influence , with Roman Catholics worshipping openly with , perhaps a despairing vicar trying , perhaps half-heartedly , to depress the old and infiltrate the Anglican requirements possibly to a largely unwilling ( or might they have been uncaring ? ) flock . |
| 18 | Might he have been despatched by those means , other than useless lawyers , which were considered by Sandra when she wrote the list ? |
| 19 | To whom might he have been more attached ? |
| 20 | ‘ Might he have been involved ? |
| 21 | What d' you think , Dolly , might it have been details of a plan to rob the Bank of England ? ’ |
| 22 | Might it have been placed here in the temple by the rulers to inspire the religion of the herd ? |
| 23 | Morse took his time to answer : ‘ In what way might it have been profitable ? ’ |
| 24 | Oh God , he thought , how could I have been so stupid , so blind . |
| 25 | How could I have been so heartless ? ’ |
| 26 | Could I have been dreaming ? |
| 27 | How could I have been so irresponsible , putting my foolish ambitions before Richard and my children ? |
| 28 | How could I have been such a fool as to take him seriously ? |
| 29 | ( Oh dear , I had not thought to check the lunar date ; how could I have been so silly ? ) |
| 30 | How could I have been so simple , naive ? |