Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb mod] have been [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I may have been called a pillock and a dickhead , but no one asked why I had tried to brain my companion . |
| 2 | If food 's got anything to do with it then I must have been eating the wrong way for the last 40 years . |
| 3 | When we left the meeting , I should have been punching the air with joy . |
| 4 | ‘ I should have been marrying a prince . ’ |
| 5 | Maybe I could have been offered a discount if I brought my wife next time . |
| 6 | If you 'd told me your name , at least I 'd have been spared the sudden shock of finding that my temporary employer was last night 's rescuer ! ’ |
| 7 | I 'd have been making a living for myself as well ! ’ |
| 8 | I knew , of course , that one or other of the suore kept a constant eye on how we behaved , and I knew too that had they noticed anything ‘ unusual ’ I would have been given a severe talking-to and told not to come back . |
| 9 | If I 'd known that I would have been given a long lecture at the end of the day , well … ’ |
| 10 | You may have been offered the similar T.buttikoferi , which has the usual bad habits when adult . |
| 11 | If time-out did n't work for you , you may have been applying the method incorrectly . |
| 12 | So be on your guard , and if you think you may have been sold a fake , report it to your local trading standards department immediately . |
| 13 | Doubtless with his tongue in his cheek , Bedford replied : ‘ But Mr. Lampson , you must have been opening the book . ’ |
| 14 | She must have been given a lift home from school with someone 's dad , because there were two other girls in the car in green uniforms . |
| 15 | I do n't think she should have been given a custodial sentence , but a community service to make her think about what she 's done . |
| 16 | and she said well we 've got , for instance , one of my favourite patience is the girl of er , I think she 's nineteen , and er , she 's in their because her father had raped her since she was about eight , when she was sixteen she killed him , well I said well I think she should have been given a medal . |
| 17 | She might have been wearing a sign like those you see in car windows : GIVE MY CHILD A CHANCE — DO N'T PULL BACK . |
| 18 | Erm you had a statement of Barbara 's , if it was in there , it was planned so that you crew can work harder erm although you filled in the bonus question well , the there was a tend dangerous tendency for you be sucked in to go into the bonus and I think you did well to say yeah well we 'd better walk along to that so you held out which was nice because if I had if you had n't tackled that you might have been shown the door once you 'd gone through that . |
| 19 | ‘ You 'll have been given a directive from D21 ? ’ |
| 20 | now if you 're a football fan you 'll have been crossing the days out on the calendar for a couple of months now … the supporters scarf will have been washed and ironed and sitting ready for weeks … and by my calculation you 've only got one hundred and sixteen hours left to the big kick off … so here 's a taster |
| 21 | If somehow she could have been given a meagre share in their relationship , if one or the other had treated her as a confidante , it might have been more bearable . |
| 22 | The whole glass and she 'd have been climbing the walls — just how you like — ’ |
| 23 | I thought you 'd have been buying an oil well or something like that . |
| 24 | There are a couple of tracks from ‘ The Extremist ’ where it sounds like you could have been using a Les Paul , and that could have been the influence of the new stop tailpiece … |
| 25 | ‘ Then surely she would have been wearing a nightdress ? ’ |
| 26 | ‘ If Debbie had lost a leg she would have been given a customised artificial limb and provided with physiotherapy at the hospital and at home , ’ says Mrs Finni . |
| 27 | The sanction imposed is real and effective since it satisfied all three conditions required by Community law ; it is adequate in relation to the damage sustained by the claimant , since the claimant is put in the position in which she would have been had the discriminatory refusal to hire her not occurred , both as concerns the post of employment and the income therefrom ; it has a real deterrent effect on the defendant bank who will not only have to pay the amount of about seven years ' monthly salary , plus interest , but will furthermore find itself with an additional employee ( the claimant and the man hired in her stead ) ; it is the same sanction as the one imposed for any other illegal refusal to hire . |
| 28 | Once a year you would have been given a Sunday off to visit your own family ; this became known as Mothering Sunday . |
| 29 | You would have been talking a lot of deep stuff about Baptism and Matrimony . ’ |
| 30 | You will have been given a time at which to expect clearance to leave the hold — this could be either EAT or OCT . |