Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb mod] have [be] [adv] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | well I 've given many , many different answers here , I could have been here all day , giving you just between point five and point six , and you 'd have been giving one as the answer every time . |
| 2 | ‘ If you had n't come I would have been up all night . ’ |
| 3 | But in a more important sense he would be wrong , for there is no such person as he had in mind and I would have been there all the time . |
| 4 | Luckily , our man 's name began with a B or I would have been there all night . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ I should like that very much , but you must have been there many times before . ’ |
| 6 | That you should have been there all the while and me not know it all this time ! |
| 7 | We felt this was important and valuable for otherwise she would have been so much in the company of adults . |
| 8 | In the end we just let the audience in or we 'd have been there all day . ’ |
| 9 | They may have been exactly that , but it was difficult to see . |
| 10 | However , Lithuania are n't going to be as dangerous as they might have been as several of their top stars did n't make the trip . |
| 11 | At another time and another place they would have been just another set of happy holiday snaps . |
| 12 | It is hard to believe they would have been too much for the North Atlantic alliance . |
| 13 | Field evidence ( D. J. Laming , pers. com. ) suggests it may have been as little as 2 or 3 km . |
| 14 | Charles the Cheesemonger was not averse to using the parish church to record the existence of his children , but on this occasion he may have been under more pressure than usual from the Anglican minister to arrange this triple baptism . |
| 15 | He may have been there all night . ’ |
| 16 | It should have been downhill all the way for retired Shetland Pony Selwyn , instead it turned out to be downbeat . |
| 17 | As late as 1863 he could still assure his mother that he might turn his attention to almost any subject , but it must have been around this time that a first decision in favour of classics was taken , even though it was not until 1865 at Leipzig that his academic specialization became complete . |
| 18 | She said well it must have been just those two little bits . |
| 19 | Once it must have been very much on its own , but now there are modern houses within spitting distance . |
| 20 | It must have been too much heat or … something . ’ |
| 21 | It must have been there all the time , sitting motionless and staring straight at me from the far edge of the level area of the Grounds , but I had n't noticed it at first . |
| 22 | Well at least he 'll have been here this weekend to find |
| 23 | The young man — perhaps not quite so young after all , he might have been as much as thirty — came forward into the room , closing the door behind him . |
| 24 | It could have been there all the time . |
| 25 | Dr. Favor was older than she was , at least fifteen years older , which put her about thirty , and he could have been just another man sitting there . |
| 26 | Two-nil up at home against moderate opposition — it would have been downhill all the way for most teams . |
| 27 | If his estimate of time was accurate , it would have been rather more than an hour since it had stopped . |
| 28 | With an authoritarian captain to instil some pep into them , a draw or two may have been salvaged and it would have been just another defeat rather than an abject cave-in , but Gower was not able to pick them up . |
| 29 | Two years previously it would have been just another biker film , and two years on it would have been dated in terms of attitudes . |
| 30 | However little , it would have been too much . |