Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb mod] 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 | 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 . |
| 7 | In the circumstances I should have been the good daughter , studious and uninterested in boyfriends . |
| 8 | ‘ I could have been the only Irishman to play for both Billy Bingham and Jack Charlton , ’ he said . |
| 9 | I would have been a progressive teacher 's ideal pupil . |
| 10 | ‘ Kenneth and I would have been a marvellous companionship , but … ’ |
| 11 | I would have been a foolish man to do otherwise . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Perhaps if I had n't been a fool I would have been the dead girl in the road . ’ |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | ‘ Oh , but you must have been a little girl once , Headmistress . |
| 16 | ‘ You should have been a big game hunter , Maggie . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ She must have been the only woman Paheri ever liked . |
| 18 | ‘ 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 . |
| 19 | She must have been an exceptional item , because Rich can hardly get the words out for trembling woooh noises and peculiar scatological asides . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | She might have been the Abyssinian maid , playing a dulcimer and singing of Mount Abora . |
| 22 | For example , you might have been a mere , much more happy about making a sacrifice for your brother , giving him a sweet , if you knew that on other occasions , he would give one to you , and because you are related to each other . |
| 23 | He is , he said my mother said she could have been a forensic scientist if it ha if I had n't been born ! |
| 24 | She could have been a top model . |
| 25 | She 'd have been a lovely ! |
| 26 | You could 've been a real trendsetter , you could 've put Ghostbuster stripes on it |
| 27 | There 's nobody in this world more sorry for you at times than I am , for you could have been a real good-lookin' , strappin' fella . |
| 28 | ‘ You could have been a great cabinet maker , ’ she told him . |
| 29 | ‘ You could have been a well-brought-up sex-mad pervert . ’ |
| 30 | You could have been a British Champion by now — why did you give it up ? ’ |