Example sentences of "something that [vb mod] have be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Emily drank the tea , suddenly aware of the incongruity of the situation : here she was , sitting in the kitchen like one of the servants , something that would have been unthinkable just a few weeks ago . |
| 2 | A huge , icing-covered cake with a welcome-home message from airport staff greeted the plucky youngster on her arrival and she quickly tucked into the tasty treat — something that would have been impossible for her just a few months ago . |
| 3 | Fifteen hundred pound if he was prepared to put a deposit down or something that would have been fifteen hundred quid . |
| 4 | They went in behind Sir George , who waved his huge cone of light around the dark , cramped , circular space , illuminating a semi-circular bay window , a roof carved with veined arches and mock-mediaeval ivy-leaves , felt-textured with dust , a box-bed with curtains still hanging , showing a dull red under their pall of particles , a fantastically carved black wooden desk , covered with beading and scrolls , and bunches of grapes and pomegranates and lilies , something that might have been either a low chair or a prie-dieu , heaps of cloth , an old trunk , two band boxes , a sudden row of staring tiny white faces , one , two , three , propped against a pillow . |
| 5 | And gradually , the King 's hand relaxed , and his bearing , and lastly his face , across which flickered indistinct and curious emotions : of relief and annoyance , of affection and something that might have been shame . |
| 6 | The flush was still there , and in his voice something that might have been an appeal . |
| 7 | She stared , and said something that might have been a question or a rejection . |
| 8 | A sound , the barest whisper of something that might have been a moan , rose in her throat . |
| 9 | Within one eye socket of the indeterminate monstrosity behind the wheel something that could have been an eye popped loudly and viscous yellow fluid streamed down the corpse 's ravaged face . |
| 10 | A crash or a motoring conviction was viewed as unlucky , rather than something that should have been avoided . |
| 11 | ‘ It 's something that should have been done a long time ago . |
| 12 | But you 've also got that that that you notice well down the erm the expenditure on a project , that you 're gon na have to have to go back and change something that should have been sorted out at the start . |
| 13 | Yet it had been Eleanor who had started this war of words ; Eleanor who had tried to interfere in something that should have been none of her business . |
| 14 | I mean I had no idea that by doing ‘ I left no ring with her ’ by Viola I was doing something that must have been heard a hundred times that day — I had no idea . |
| 15 | I knew that Vecchi 's reason for shooting Mahoney was something that must have been worrying Mr. Bonanza . |
| 16 | He jumped up from the chair he was sitting on and knocked something on to the floor , something that must have been on the arm . |