Example sentences of "[modal v] have [been] drive " in BNC.
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| 1 | The hours can be calculated by totalling all the man hours expended as a result of the false report , e.g. a false report is made by a driver , involved in a hit and run accident , that his car had been stolen and at the time of the accident it must have been driven by the thief and not himself . |
| 2 | She must have been driving more erratically than she thought for she found herself half skewed across the road . |
| 3 | ‘ He must have been driving for hours . ’ |
| 4 | You might have been driving for years by going over the top of the wheel as a lot of lorry drivers do . |
| 5 | At any rate from 1571 it might well have been very disadvantageous for anyone in the district to openly profess allegiance to the Popish ways and Roman Catholic miners well might have been driven underground — and that is not fully intended as a pun . |
| 6 | It 's not very nice when you 're driving the vehicle and er I know you 're all experienced drivers and then you get somebody sitting there alongside you starting to look at you do , and I I you could 've been driving all your life but you still feel a bit edgy and a bit tense . |
| 7 | Someone who 's not from the area could have been driving through and seen something . ’ |
| 8 | You could have been driving |
| 9 | Otherwise I 'd have been driving tonight |
| 10 | The road was wet and your mother has suggested that your father may have been driving exceptionally fast . ’ |
| 11 | Later at the inquest ( which he did n't attend ) , he admitted through his lawyer that he may have been driving on the wrong side of the road . |
| 12 | Altogether six vehicles were involved and police say some motorists may have been driving to close . |
| 13 | ‘ Besides , he may have been driven over the edge by her carryings-on . |
| 14 | It may have been driven around a bit before it entered the water . |
| 15 | Those of the gentry and clergy who perceived this may have been driven by instinct and may have over-reacted . |
| 16 | Previously , she would have been driven by my father , but she announced that it was her intention to travel , alone , by train . |
| 17 | If outrage were the sole test of legality in the arts , then the Impressionists would never have been allowed to organise the Salon des Refusés , Edvard Munch would have been driven into permanent exile , and the score of Stravinsky 's Rite of Spring would be gathering dust in some criminal museum like the Italian negative of Bertolucci 's Last Tango in Paris . |
| 18 | He cut into her thoughts with a question about the ball and she repeated her earlier assurance that she 'd had a successful evening , adding that in all conscience she ought to have been driving back to London to work on some of the stories . |