Example sentences of "[pron] [vb mod] have been [verb] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | I thought you 'd have been buying an oil well or something like that . |
| 2 | YOUR TASK : often you will have been given an explicit purpose for making notes at the outset . |
| 3 | On the very bad day , I think we should have been offered an alternative source of water . ’ |
| 4 | They would have been paying an interest rate of 11.75 p.c. — which increased to 15 p.c. in January 1980 — compared with the current rate of about 10.95 p.c . |
| 5 | Furious Cowboys coach Jimmy Johnson argued it should have been called an incomplete pass and made his point forcibly after the Redskins ' 20-17 victory . |
| 6 | Musician to the end , he died through insisting on conducting a new revival of Castor et Pollux when he should have been nursing an illness . |
| 7 | He might have been giving an apple to a horse . |
| 8 | ‘ The evidence extends only as far as the lower scapula , does it not ’ He could have been wearing an off-the-shoulder toga . ’ |
| 9 | While agreeing broadly with the England manager 's summing-up of the present Brazilian team , the thought did occur that in another footballing era he could have been describing an Italian side — brilliant in breakaways but giving nothing away at the back . |
| 10 | He had his widowed mother living with him and two sisters who had to get husbands ; both Mr James and Constanza say that it would have been considered an almost monstrous act of selfishness if the prince had insisted on marrying one of the Montecativi or Roccarosa girls for their beaux yeux . |
| 11 | ‘ I think you deserve more than a certain amount of punishment for making me wet and nearly giving me a heart-attack — Do you know how difficult it would have been to get an ambulance out here to you ? ’ |