Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb mod] have [been] [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ Conceive what I must have been at fourteen , ’ he reminisced to James Gillman , his first biographer . |
2 | otherwise I would have been on two fifty . |
3 | She must have been in one of those baskets in the back of the car , Ruth supposed . |
4 | If these had been real Tag Heuer watches they 'd have been worth thousands , but in fact at around 25 pounds each they 're a rip-off . |
5 | They were no less repugnant to tens of thousands of men who had fought in the previous war , as they would have been to tens of thousands more who died in it . |
6 | He must have been on one or other of them every night , in weather much like this , all through that last summer of his life . |
7 | No it must have been before nineteen eighty . |
8 | There was a time , no doubt — it must have been before 1948 , when the United Kingdom itself abolished allegiance as the basis of citizenship — when the pretence of daughter monarchies around the globe was harmless and even arguably beneficial . |
9 | She did n't finish her apprenticeship — I deduce that , rather than know it — sometime , it must have been in 1934 , came south , worked in Woolworths on the Edgware Road , spent the war years in Roehampton , a ward maid again , at the hospital where they mended fighter pilots ' ruined faces . |
10 | So it must have been in nineteen eighty nine , just after the |
11 | Well it would have been at one time . |
12 | In many industries , a strike in 1984 is almost as likely to result in fatalities , injuries , or destruction of property as it would have been in 1934 or even 1904 . |
13 | Both are drawn from archival and historical records and show the High Street as it would have been in 1540 , at the close of the last independent century of Scottish culture and accomplishment when 22 kings , queens and princes lay undisturbed and revered by pilgrims in the abbey . |