Example sentences of "[pers pn] [modal v] not have been [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I could n't have been happier : there was nothing else I could wish for . |
| 2 | At fifteen years old I started my drama course and I could n't have been happier . |
| 3 | ‘ Oh no , ma'am , I could not have been plainer as to everything . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ Then Orient came in for me and I could not have been happier with the way things worked out . ’ |
| 5 | I could not have been happier . |
| 6 | You could not have been better . |
| 7 | I think I 'm rather surprised they might not have been worse . |
| 8 | You can probably find things to say about how well George and Marie have gone about co-ordinating their marketing , financial and personnel activities , and you could even ask yourself whether they might not have been wiser to expand ( if that is what they still want to do ) in a different direction altogether . |
| 9 | They could n't have been better . ’ |
| 10 | A question I would ask is that given the product which you had in June and the fact that presumably you have to take what goes , presumably the fact that they do n't send you the strongest stuff erm are you surprised that the figures were down in view of the quality of what you had , or are you surprised it might not have been worse ? |
| 11 | Erm I just wonder whether it might not have been better to move round a little bit to the left so we could have seen the lady 's hand and sa as well er er and as well as her face , you know , we 've got ta get we can see what she 's doing , know what she 's doing but it 'd been nice if you could have included her hands . |
| 12 | She had no need to give it further emphasis , it could not have been clearer . |
| 13 | The erotic effect was electrifying ; it could not have been greater if he had plunged his hand into her crotch . |
| 14 | ‘ It could not have been better , Hans . |
| 15 | It could not have been better and it was a credit to the game of golf the way that the spectators reacted to both sides . |
| 16 | Oh I shall never regret Er I do n't know but I 'm just perhaps one on me own , but er it could n't have been better for because I was a freelance and er I wanted to learn and wanted to get on and they allowed me , they allowed me to do what I wanted . |
| 17 | Maybe it lasted half an hour , that sleep , it could n't have been longer because there was still no daylight when I was woken , although he did n't mean to wake me . |
| 18 | 30 " He was dead when he went in , and as he 'd been dead only for about six to seven hours , it could n't have been longer than that . |
| 19 | He could not have been kinder nor taken more trouble to see that we enjoyed ourselves . |
| 20 | ‘ I wonder if it would n't have been better if the Almighty had created us all as — well — as sort of plants . |
| 21 | It can not have been later than A.D. 36 , because Pilate , in that year , was recalled to Rome . |