Example sentences of "[pron] [modal v] have [been] [prep] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do you imagine that we are the way we are about money because of mother or because we would have been like that anyway ? ’ |
| 2 | They must have been at that game for ages — and no anaesthetics , either . |
| 3 | The Ministry did tell us not to waste effort growing flowers , but somehow one always felt they were not quite as right as they might have been on that one . |
| 4 | And they would have been at that muckle supper . |
| 5 | Lopes LJ : Speaking for myself , I think it ought to have been in that form , and probably a little bit stronger . |
| 6 | I think the department of Health was swayed rather more than it should have been by that lobby , because the sort of service that was intended to set up in Camberwell has not yet been set up . |
| 7 | He should have been like that , happy with a wife and children . |
| 8 | It must have been at that time that his habit of keeping notes on his travels began . |
| 9 | ‘ Well , it must have been after that he had his accident . ’ |
| 10 | Something like that , it must have been like that . |
| 11 | It must have been like that for Euturpia , when she was turned out to the cabana . |
| 12 | It must have been in that one moment of darkness , as she 'd been taking her hand away . |
| 13 | And he came down he would have been working for he would have been at that time my great grandfather maybe or and he came down and he lived in lower Millfield after that and just as soon as he was out of his house , they just had the house demolished . |