Example sentences of "she [modal v] have be [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They thought she may have been sleep walking . |
| 2 | Badgers have got a name for being vicious creatures , but Teka has taken to people so well Maggie thinks she must have been hand reared from birth . |
| 3 | If she could have been part of a warm , loving family , it was what she would have liked most of all . |
| 4 | He imagined she would have been charm personified if she wanted something from him , but offhand and dismissive if she had not . |
| 5 | A psychologist gave an assessment of the mother/daughter relationship thus : ‘ The classic anorexia symptoms are sometimes inherited and , as Kylie 's mother was a ballerina , she would have been weight obsessed all her life . |
| 6 | Had she found my son 's body she would have been disconsolate , certainly too shocked and distressed to talk to you now . |