Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb mod] have been a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This Melanie of his must have been a right madam , thought Leonora when Penry went off to get himself a glass of whisky . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 4 | I must have been a constant reminder of her , and he could n't bear it . ’ |
| 5 | I would have been a progressive teacher 's ideal pupil . |
| 6 | ‘ Kenneth and I would have been a marvellous companionship , but … ’ |
| 7 | I would have been a better person than I am today . |
| 8 | I would have been a foolish man to do otherwise . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ‘ Oh , but you must have been a little girl once , Headmistress . |
| 12 | ‘ You should have been a big game hunter , Maggie . ’ |
| 13 | She must have been a hundred miles away , she realised , trying to get her thoughts together . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | He is , he said my mother said she could have been a forensic scientist if it ha if I had n't been born ! |
| 16 | She could have been a top model . |
| 17 | She 'd have been a lovely ! |
| 18 | You could 've been a real trendsetter , you could 've put Ghostbuster stripes on it |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | ‘ You could have been a great cabinet maker , ’ she told him . |
| 21 | ‘ You could have been a well-brought-up sex-mad pervert . ’ |
| 22 | You could have been a British Champion by now — why did you give it up ? ’ |
| 23 | ‘ Even though she would have been a rich woman had she married him ? ’ |
| 24 | If she had n't yielded to a guilty passion then she would have been a better wife to Denny . |
| 25 | She would have been a young lass of twelve as JTR strode his way Arosward . |
| 26 | She would have been a talkative woman if she could . |
| 27 | In medieval times you would have been a Sanguine , Melancholy , Choleric or Phlegmatic type . |
| 28 | You would have been a brave man to accuse them of it . |
| 29 | ‘ And you would have been a ready-made rich lady , and not have to marry a gentleman . ’ |
| 30 | If Bernie had n't been around we would have been a band , and we would have been a good band but we would n't have been the band . |