Example sentences of "[pers pn] [modal v] have been [art] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She must have been a hundred miles away , she realised , trying to get her thoughts together . |
| 2 | it should have been a hundred or something . |
| 3 | They went up to Scotland for your christening , 'eighty-three , it must have been no 'eighty-four , and when they came down south again , they came to my office and the wills were drawn up . ’ |
| 4 | It must have been a million-to-one chance for him to hit the car right in the middle . ’ |
| 5 | It must have been a dozen years since they were last used . |
| 6 | Well so I went and then they came on the Friday night it must have been the twenty twenty fifth of July ninete nineteen thirty . |
| 7 | ‘ It might have been a dozen so far as your conduct of the operations is concerned , ’ said one of Joyce 's companions . |
| 8 | The donor could have been ‘ P. ’ or it could have been the two last-mentioned ladies or ‘ P. ’ could be the first-name initial of Madame Vidal . |