Example sentences of "[pers pn] [modal v] have been [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The press release the editors sent me was acceptable , but I may have been the only person to get it . |
| 2 | This Melanie of his must have been a right madam , thought Leonora when Penry went off to get himself a glass of whisky . |
| 3 | I sent the cheque back , saying that although it had been immensely good of them to bring me up , I must have been a great burden and was now a disappointment , so I would prefer them to keep this money as some repayment for all they had done . |
| 4 | ‘ For once , not Rosemary , though I 'm getting more and more desperate about not knowing what to do for the best , ’ he confessed , but went on to explain , ‘ I spent a lot of time yesterday in realising that I must have been a real wet blanket when Naylor announced your engagement on Saturday . ’ |
| 5 | I must have been a constant reminder of her , and he could n't bear it . ’ |
| 6 | I must have been the greatest bore ever , and it 's a wonder that those I inflicted my views upon did n't rebel . |
| 7 | If I found there was no coffee in the house I 'd shout and swear at her and I must have been an absolute pain to live with . |
| 8 | ‘ Do n't think you 've heard the last of this matter , ’ he said through his teeth , ‘ you wo n't get away with it , taking from me my home and my birthright , I should have been the eldest son , I am more worthy of the position . |
| 9 | In the circumstances I should have been the good daughter , studious and uninterested in boyfriends . |
| 10 | ‘ I could have been the only Irishman to play for both Billy Bingham and Jack Charlton , ’ he said . |
| 11 | I mean that does have a lot of resonance for all of us. feel that erm I could have been the same person erm with lots of different changes to my body . |
| 12 | I 'd have been the proudest father in the history of the game . ’ |
| 13 | I would have been a progressive teacher 's ideal pupil . |
| 14 | ‘ Kenneth and I would have been a marvellous companionship , but … ’ |
| 15 | I would have been a better person than I am today . |
| 16 | I would have been a foolish man to do otherwise . |
| 17 | If I had put a tea cosy on my head I would have been a dead ringer for Mrs Pankhurst , but it affected my behaviour even more than my looks . |
| 18 | What 's more , I would have been the first to complain . |
| 19 | I would have been the first to know . ’ |
| 20 | Perhaps if I had n't been a fool I would have been the dead girl in the road . ’ |
| 21 | The easy , informed arguments they had about the Kesselring case proved him wrong : as they talked , the two of them might have been no more than friendly colleagues . |
| 22 | There are occasional references to fullers during the 13th and 14th centuries but theirs must have been a small scale operation compared to that encountered further downstream around Cirencester . |
| 23 | A teenager has told police she may have been the first victim of a man who 's attacked two women in recent months . |
| 24 | ‘ Oh , but you must have been a little girl once , Headmistress . |
| 25 | ‘ You should have been a big game hunter , Maggie . ’ |
| 26 | She must have been a hundred miles away , she realised , trying to get her thoughts together . |
| 27 | ‘ She must have been the only woman Paheri ever liked . |
| 28 | ‘ She must have been an extraordinary woman , ’ said Julia , trying to imagine living her life in a wheelchair and knowing that her attractive husband was falling in love with someone else . |
| 29 | She must have been an exceptional item , because Rich can hardly get the words out for trembling woooh noises and peculiar scatological asides . |
| 30 | She should have been the original ‘ It ’ girl , Clara Bow , but the staff , not for the last time , got it wrong , and put the more vampish Theda Bara on the cover instead . |