Example sentences of "[pron] [modal v] [verb] [be] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said slowly and dangerously , ‘ I daresay I might have been four bob down at the end of an evening . |
| 2 | I would have been 3.5 ft tall . |
| 3 | The best example I can give is one stretch on the Hampshire Avon . |
| 4 | Well what I can find are eight days , where for two hours , my primary focus can be these labels , producing the labels . |
| 5 | So that would have been point two five which should have been fifteen minutes . |
| 6 | She had never been on a train before and the speed , which must have been twenty miles an hour , made her as excited as a child . |
| 7 | But knowing what she ought to do was one thing — putting it into action seemed to be quite another . |
| 8 | She may have been three years older than he was , pushing forty and not quite as pert as the sort of girl he favoured at this precise moment , but one day Jack would grow up , look for a real woman to take care of him , and there she 'd be , waiting and ready . |
| 9 | But Malcolm Brodie , who must have been 80 yards away and looking at the player 's back , could say the goal was quite rightly disallowed . |
| 10 | Charlie heard the words , ‘ Carry on , Sergeant-Major , ’ and a moment later a man who must have been six feet six inches in height , and whose beer-barrel chest was covered in medal ribbons , took a pace forward . |
| 11 | Today , young Christer as you 'd expect was 10 ft tall . |
| 12 | It would be hard to find an artist more suited to the political needs of museum exhibitions in the early 1990s than Wifredo Lam , who would have been ninety years old this year . |
| 13 | Erm yeah well actually it would actually be much more sensible to divide the year into into thirteen months each of twenty eight days because twenty eight days you will realize is two fortnights so you can divide the year very nicely into thirteen equal periods . |
| 14 | All you can hear is one word : ‘ Enough ’ . |
| 15 | But you 've got to get some years in to get a really good pension , but I 've got thirteen and the maximum you can get is forty years but you get , then get two thirds of the salary you would have got , |
| 16 | Well I think what we 'll do is one day we 'll weigh the amount of spaghetti and then we 'll know exactly how much to put in next time wo n't we ? |
| 17 | Luckily we were over Germany and not the worst nightmare , over the Channel , as we would have been thirty minutes more into the flight . |
| 18 | to say that in fairness to them , so what we would respectfully submit is that your Lordship having assessed the damages and erm , together with interest other than court of protection costs that the figure which we had mentioned and , and adjourn the matter for consideration of a structured settlement erm and that 's the first figure erm , that , the , the second thing , is that there is money in court er we would ask for a direction of the balance of the money , the balance over and above the money in court which is an extra three hundred and six thousand , three hundred and forty pounds at the present stage be brought into court within a reasonable time which we would note is fourteen days , maybe the defendant would ask longer , we have n't discussed it . |
| 19 | The trouble is , all we will see is one shot replayed 598 times . |
| 20 | Whatever justification there may have been 600 years ago for riot and revolt , there was never such justification today . |
| 21 | now there , there must 've been one reason why you chose Friends Provident . |
| 22 | ‘ By the time the doors opened there must have been 100 people . |
| 23 | There must have been 5,000 head corralled into convoy formation by a quartet of big black dogs . |
| 24 | There must have been twenty men on the back of the lorry in masks and carnival costumes . |
| 25 | The last of the finals was on Saturday night ( after a luncheon at the Rivercrest Country Club ) , with works of Chopin , Brahms and Rachmaninov that we had come to know and love ; and there must have been 700 people at the Forth Worth Club party afterwards . |
| 26 | There were ten tables , so there should have been ten runners , but only three started . |
| 27 | He states however that the fuel was computed at that point and it was determined that there should have been 1,300 lbs remaining on arrival over Goose Bay , giving a reserve of twenty-five to twenty-seven minutes holding at 20,000 feet altitude . |
| 28 | On a comparison of populations there should have been 4,500 houses built in Derry but only 3,000 had , in fact , been built . |
| 29 | United 's man of the match was keeper Paul Kee without him there could have been five goals flying into the Oxford net … |
| 30 | Yes well we save , we possibly saved that time , most of was was completely er occupied , so if we had n't have seen the fire , there could have been forty lives or forty families at risk there . |