Example sentences of "[pers pn] [modal v] have been [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 31 | It must have been at that time that his habit of keeping notes on his travels began . |
| 32 | It must have been at some time , because I can speak it now . |
| 33 | It is difficult to visualize now , but it must have been within this pavilion that the young Roshanara consulted her spies as she reclined on carpets beside the gently bubbling irrigation runnels . |
| 34 | ‘ Well , it must have been after that he had his accident . ’ |
| 35 | Something like that , it must have been like that . |
| 36 | It must have been like that for Euturpia , when she was turned out to the cabana . |
| 37 | ‘ It must have been like this in Arkaig when my father first went there , ’ Cameron said to Menzies . |
| 38 | It must have been like this watching a man being broken on the rack , Blanche thought . |
| 39 | Others , however , joined in the exercise : ‘ It must have been in such and such a way ; I mean , there 's a story which says … |
| 40 | It must have been in that one moment of darkness , as she 'd been taking her hand away . |
| 41 | It must have been in these years that Henry II and Eleanor became increasingly estranged . |
| 42 | This is not , as it might have been with such a tale , the cuckolded merchant , but rather Margery , the stupid wife , who is particularly funny because she is so unthinkingly conventionally good and who effaces any real self she may be imagined to have within a cluster of clichés . |
| 43 | Said it 'll have been in all day . |
| 44 | Bernard , harder on his own son than he might have been on any other twenty-three-year-old in the company was not keen , telling him he had no business experience . |
| 45 | She became aware at an early stage that there was an entirely different way of life available not far outside Baldersdale , perhaps more appealing to her , but it could have been on another planet . |
| 46 | He could have been behind any of the closed doors . |
| 47 | 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 . |
| 48 | At that time he would have been like many thousand of other youngsters , the sweepings of the hungry ‘ forties . |
| 49 | If the contract had been ‘ straightforward ’ then it would have been worth half the £1.31 million that he was to be paid . |
| 50 | If I could have departed then , never reentered the house , it would have been with some strength of mind . |
| 51 | It would have been of little comfort to investors to learn that Chairman John Wheeler had , according to former business colleagues , been living a luxury lifestyle , spending almost £70,000 on refitting his yacht , and thousands of pounds renovating his six-bedroom house . |
| 52 | Everything was very hush-hush , and it was not until it was over that the name of the target was made common knowledge — not that it would have been of any interest to us if we had known beforehand , because none of us had ever heard of it . |
| 53 | Nevertheless , it seems highly improbable that had it been pursued the ‘ revolutionary ’ alternative , deprived as it would have been of any significant outside help , would have proved any more successful . |
| 54 | It will have been in this connection that he wrote the discarded pieces " On music and words " , which largely rework part " of " The Dionysiac Philosophy " of the previous year , but whose copious references to Schopenhauer , opera and Beethoven 's Choral Symphony relate directly to one side of the Wagner problem , though without any explicit stress on that fact . " |
| 55 | I sent money and a small gift for Harry : ‘ if you can speak to him , that is — he will have been in enough hot water already on my account … ’ |