Example sentences of "[pers pn] [modal v] have been [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What 's more , I would have been the first to complain . |
| 2 | I would have been the first to know . ’ |
| 3 | A teenager has told police she may have been the first victim of a man who 's attacked two women in recent months . |
| 4 | She wondered whether to ask Mrs Baggley if she realised that she might have been the last person to see or hear of Paul Gray alive . |
| 5 | You could have been the next player |
| 6 | She would have been the last person in the world to interfere with that . |
| 7 | Had the score been the other way round I 'm sure we 'd have been the first match to be shown with umpteen repeats of all the goals . |
| 8 | These early nautiloids were probably predators also , and if this were so they may have been the first rapidly moving , efficient hunters in the sea . |
| 9 | Afterwards nobody could tell us about our route and it may have been a first ascent — we still do not know . |
| 10 | He should have been the last person to be killed . |
| 11 | She learned that Maxim had an elder sister — oddly , she 'd always assumed he must have been the first child — who had married a Quaker school-master and lived up North , had three children and did n't work , ‘ Except at disapproving of the Army , ’ Maxim added . |
| 12 | He must have been the first cousin of Man . |
| 13 | He must have been the last to drink it . |
| 14 | so it must have been a third X cubed |
| 15 | One man , Ivan Masterson , talks about how he helped pull people from the rubble and says : ‘ It must have been the second body I helped to take out … it was an awful shock seeing my uncle there with his wife beside him . ’ |
| 16 | It must have been the last one left in London . |
| 17 | It must have been the last straw to a tired Lancaster crew to have home in sight , and then to be attacked by a fighter . |
| 18 | it must have been the last he wrote — saying |
| 19 | Erm it must have been the last day , it must have been Friday , must have been Friday . |
| 20 | Chatterton thought this event had occurred on the afternoon of the tenth of January , although he did concede that it might have been the eleventh . |
| 21 | It might have been the fourth 60 on Tour this season , but his 12-under-par return was the lowest to par ever in Europe . |
| 22 | I think he might have been the first black player in England but I know Celtic fielded jazz and rap pioneer Gil Scott Heron 's Dad in the 30s — a great success there apparently . |
| 23 | Some will say that is fortunate , as the weather forecast for the weekend made it seem likely that it could have been the first ‘ one-day ’ final to span three days . |
| 24 | For all we know , it could have been the 500th unnecessary and spoiling miscarriage of justice since Test matches were first televised with the playback facility . |
| 25 | He would have been the first person to agree that this is an inadequate label for a process in which some sets of ideas are restructured and some are rejected . |
| 26 | He would have been the first non-Scandinavian to star in a Bergman film , an honour which went eventually to the more laid-back Elliott Gould . |
| 27 | ‘ It is 30 years since my father 's first victory here and I am sure he would have been the first to have congratulated Ayrton on breaking his record of five wins . |
| 28 | If Louis , Martin 's brother-in-law , was in fact the son of Louis and Marie Francard , then he would have been the last Parisian descendant of the line of Louis I Marriage contract of Jacques le Romain , 1728 |
| 29 | It would have been the twenty-seventh or twenty-eighth of June , nineteen-ninety . |