Example sentences of "[noun pl] i [modal v] have be " in BNC.
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| 1 | With the Russians I would have been executed on the spot . |
| 2 | In the circumstances I should have been the good daughter , studious and uninterested in boyfriends . |
| 3 | If there were bouncers on mountains I would have been refused entry to the crags on more occasions than I care to recall . |
| 4 | ‘ I dressed for sex and thought about nothing else on these trips to London and , once I was locked away with Andrew , I got up to all sorts of things I would have been too embarrassed to do with Tony . |
| 5 | When he returned with the blankets I must have been asleep . |
| 6 | ‘ If I had any political objectives I would have been sitting in my cantonment ( barracks ) scheming and planning , ’ Gen Beg said . |
| 7 | In all these instances I could have been , oh , so wrong . |
| 8 | ( 148 ) If it were not for an old professor who made me read the classics I would have been stymied . |
| 9 | I said she could have taken a degree in her spare time in th she 's only she 's not yet forty I said that 's absolute rubbish I said th the world is full of these damn women going around saying , if only I had n't had children I could have been Lord Chief Justice of England , I said , it is n't true ! |
| 10 | With the cash to match my pretensions I 'd have been a menace for our Dennis . |