Example sentences of "[pers pn] [modal v] have [been] [vb pp] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I may have been called a pillock and a dickhead , but no one asked why I had tried to brain my companion . |
| 2 | Maybe I could have been offered a discount if I brought my wife next time . |
| 3 | I knew , of course , that one or other of the suore kept a constant eye on how we behaved , and I knew too that had they noticed anything ‘ unusual ’ I would have been given a severe talking-to and told not to come back . |
| 4 | If I 'd known that I would have been given a long lecture at the end of the day , well … ’ |
| 5 | So be on your guard , and if you think you may have been sold a fake , report it to your local trading standards department immediately . |
| 6 | She must have been given a lift home from school with someone 's dad , because there were two other girls in the car in green uniforms . |
| 7 | I do n't think she should have been given a custodial sentence , but a community service to make her think about what she 's done . |
| 8 | and she said well we 've got , for instance , one of my favourite patience is the girl of er , I think she 's nineteen , and er , she 's in their because her father had raped her since she was about eight , when she was sixteen she killed him , well I said well I think she should have been given a medal . |
| 9 | ‘ You 'll have been given a directive from D21 ? ’ |
| 10 | If somehow she could have been given a meagre share in their relationship , if one or the other had treated her as a confidante , it might have been more bearable . |
| 11 | ‘ If Debbie had lost a leg she would have been given a customised artificial limb and provided with physiotherapy at the hospital and at home , ’ says Mrs Finni . |
| 12 | Once a year you would have been given a Sunday off to visit your own family ; this became known as Mothering Sunday . |
| 13 | You will have been given a time at which to expect clearance to leave the hold — this could be either EAT or OCT . |
| 14 | You must be an assessor of the DC to register your decision ( you will have been sent a mail message asking you to assess the DC ) . |
| 15 | No special LIFESPAN privileges are required to use this option but you must be an assessor of the DC to register a decision ( you will have been sent a mail message asking you to assess the DC ) . |
| 16 | WE may have been leaked a world exclusive , incidentally , about a split in the Monster Raving Loonies ( for whom , incidentally , Screaming Lord Sutch is standing in three different seats . ) |
| 17 | Despite their being one of the most common types of artefact in female graves , they may have been considered a personal luxury . |
| 18 | First , take the point made by Mr. Holloway from Germany , who says that South Africa ( they should have been granted a dispensation and welcomed to World Cup 1991 ) must surely go through the full qualifying process for 1995 . |
| 19 | Can I just mention that the reason why some of the older properties in this village has steeper pitched roofs is not because they 're pantiled now , because originally they were erm , thatched , and the thatch needs a very steep pitch and particularly when there 's a erm a gable end higher than the pantiles , it 's where there was a thatched roof originally , but most of the older properties in this village are only one room wide , so you ca n't get a very big roof on , no matter how steep it is , the proposed houses here are in fact virtually sort of two rooms wide are n't they , so that means they are wide at the eves , I I would personally have thought that erm they could have been pitched a bit less . |
| 20 | People with head injuries who ca n't get the long-term treatment they need have been promised a better deal . |
| 21 | In reply , Greenidge and Richards hammered 88 in even time , but then only Murray made a substantial score , his 64 being joint top with Richards and 41 more than it should have been had a catch been accepted ; 308 all out . |
| 22 | He should have been given a medal for trying to catch a car vandal . |
| 23 | Derek felt from an early age that he should have been born a woman . |
| 24 | ‘ Looking back , what he said is really strange , bearing in mind he must have been murdered a little while later . ’ |
| 25 | It must have been said a thousand times in angling literature that location is the key to success and in zander fishing this was never more so . |
| 26 | It must have been mailed a few days ago , with a second class stamp . |
| 27 | For instance , domestic violence is now seen as unacceptable , whereas until recently it might have been considered a ‘ private ’ affair . |
| 28 | Had he been there earlier he might have been asked a less direct question . |
| 29 | But I mean it could 've been made a bit bigger than that could n't it , for the seat |
| 30 | Cessation of hostilities reduced its political weight , but so effective had it been in the 1918 election and so important was the ex-servicemen 's vote , that it could have been played a while longer . |