Example sentences of "have be [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From the point of view of the people of the Gorbals in the Thirties , fox-hunting and psychoanalysis would have been practically indistinguishable concerns of the rich in the Sassenach South , of the ‘ high heid yins ’ of the world — an expression of the poor in Scotland then , which Ralph Glasser uses . |
| 2 | As late as 1863 he could still assure his mother that he might turn his attention to almost any subject , but it must have been around this time that a first decision in favour of classics was taken , even though it was not until 1865 at Leipzig that his academic specialization became complete . |
| 3 | To move forward to the present there would have been yet another shock for Green . |
| 4 | Knowing that the sergeant-major , the most senior layman , would have been incredibly nervous Eva did as she was told . |
| 5 | I felt that there could have been slightly more involvement with the police at this point , as it would have been quite interesting to hear their views on this problem . |
| 6 | Possibly monastic writers may have been slightly less chauvinist in outlook ; the St Albans chronicler at least is less effusive about Agincourt , although he too notes the triumphant reception which the King received on his return ( 16 , p.111 ; 22 , p.70 ; 39 , pp.xviii , 98–9 ) . |
| 7 | ‘ If you had n't come I would have been up all night . ’ |
| 8 | All I can say about that is that it must have been awfully feeble acid to make your visions come out so pedestrian as this . |
| 9 | I mean there , there would have been presumably enormous opposition to that and in the process output would have almost certainly fallen an an and er there were no resources for mechanization so collectivization as a short-term option is really out . |
| 10 | Such women may have been rather running businesses than producing goods in so far as they relied on journeymen . |
| 11 | I says , You should have been here five minutes ago , we did a marvellous job . |
| 12 | well I 've given many , many different answers here , I could have been here all day , giving you just between point five and point six , and you 'd have been giving one as the answer every time . |
| 13 | Well at least he 'll have been here this weekend to find |
| 14 | should have been here this morning |
| 15 | with a spirit-level ; could n't have been here ten minutes |
| 16 | One day when the driver arrived at ten minutes past ten an angry customer berated him : ‘ You 're late , you should have been here ten minutes ago ! ’ |
| 17 | The best thing they could say about London was , ‘ you should have been here ten years ago ’ . |
| 18 | Any ideas on that score swiftly evaporated , however , when his glance suddenly shot to hers , and she was on the receiving end of his piercing eyes as , ‘ According to this , you should have been here last Friday ! ’ he charged . |
| 19 | ‘ You should have been here last week , ’ Bob continues . |
| 20 | But when I think it would have been just eight years from completion now , up to a height of about 400 feet , I think it 's sad we did n't get permission to build it . |
| 21 | Dr. Favor was older than she was , at least fifteen years older , which put her about thirty , and he could have been just another man sitting there . |
| 22 | Without him so many Christmases would have been just another day . |
| 23 | With an authoritarian captain to instil some pep into them , a draw or two may have been salvaged and it would have been just another defeat rather than an abject cave-in , but Gower was not able to pick them up . |
| 24 | Two years previously it would have been just another biker film , and two years on it would have been dated in terms of attitudes . |
| 25 | It might even have been just another sound effect . |
| 26 | At another time and another place they would have been just another set of happy holiday snaps . |
| 27 | She may have been just twenty years old , and secretly terrified , but she would only have one wedding in her life , and she was determined to make it her own . |
| 28 | This usually put Dad to rights but must have been pretty potent stuff as it ceased to be available after the war . |
| 29 | If it had not been for Jeremy 's displays of speed , power and massive wheelies , backed up by a courageous Robert Holden , these races would have been pretty flat beer . |
| 30 | ‘ Must have been pretty weighty things , Shannon . |