Example sentences of "[noun sg] he [vb mod] have be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Later , in the 1860s , Persigny remarked to the Emperor that the charges on the civil list were enormous — to which Napoleon III replied that had so much money not been allotted in the first place he would have been unable to fulfil all the demands which were made upon him . |
| 2 | ‘ There remains a suspicion he could have been involved in some way , ’ he said . |
| 3 | He even made a number of slips and repetitions that on a different evening he would have been quick to reprimand in others . |
| 4 | Thus Castro was in dire need of a Soviet commitment to preserve his revolution , and in a speech given to the United Nations on 26 September 1960 the Cuban leader may have been hinting at the price he might have been willing to pay when he said , ‘ We understand how terrible the subordination of the economy and life in general of nations to foreign economic power is . |
| 5 | For so solid and unemotional a man he might have been angry , or perhaps only in a hurry . |
| 6 | Had he been present at the gathering in the public bar of the Queen Anne pub near the Rotherhithe Tunnel he would have been worried even more . |
| 7 | If he 'd been born an American he 'd have been high up in the CIA — and still informing Moscow … ’ |
| 8 | In the first hour after finding her dress and necklace he might have been prepared to accept a rational explanation — or even a bemused denial of involvement . |
| 9 | Ships in the night , holiday romance etcetera , he would have sensibly suggested , and of course he would have been right . |
| 10 | Planes roared above , and had he not got used to their sound from his years in the Zoo he might have been afraid of them . |
| 11 | In a similar way he might have been surprised by the figure he cut in prose or come to that in life . |
| 12 | On a crowded traffic way he 'd have been dead in under a minute but the barren landscape of this world offered little in the way of obstacles and the vehicle seemed able to right itself over the irregular peaks that occasionally reared unexpectedly out of the mists . |
| 13 | If she had given him time he would have been able to show her passion , he knew , but it was hard for him to relax and act confidently after years of being cowed in a stern loveless household . |
| 14 | Er , my Lord er I my observations on that issue at this point be that erm it seems to be the defence case that for the purposes of er the defendants avoiding a duty to advise the plaintiffs as to the need for clear financial offers their terms from the bank , Mr was an experienced man of business and er had considerable financial acumen for the purposes of considering er whether under the banks original proposal for finance he would have been successful , they would be trading as a financial disaster . |
| 15 | In fact he 'd have been happy with a five . |