Example sentences of "n't have been the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Margaret Drabble 's novels were a success from the start ( this one was published in 1964 ) , so I ca n't have been the only new mother to feel she was speaking for me . |
| 2 | I would n't have been the first guy he 'd ever seen at that hour . |
| 3 | Maurice Dodd 's famous cartoon strip The Perishers just would n't have been the same without Boot |
| 4 | ‘ Ca n't have been the same girl then . ’ |
| 5 | I mean , it would n't have been the same if it had been called something else . ’ |