Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb mod] have been an [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I should have been an actress . |
| 2 | ‘ I should have been an accountant or an administrator instead of a doctor ! |
| 3 | You should have been an actor . |
| 4 | she left that and she 's gone to do her midwifery and now when she gets the other day she was looking at old pay slips God , she must have been an idiot to give up a sister 's post cos she said her wages have dropped terrible to do this course ! |
| 5 | ‘ You could have been an artist . ’ |
| 6 | Although I am not a Christian and certainly do not read the bible , God , for me would have been an excuse not to sort it out myself . |
| 7 | The thin , clever , spatulate fingers — they could have been an apothecary 's or a musician 's — held the roll of parchment delicately ; the light blue eyes studied Hotspur 's face without disguise and without wavering . |
| 8 | A year or so later , or it may have been an hour , I crumpled up four sheets of paper and threw them to the floor , and started another , and I was there . |
| 9 | ‘ It may have been an ambush , ’ the thin man said . |
| 10 | It may have been an obligation to a third person : see Herring v. Dorell ( ( 1840 ) 8 Dowl . |
| 11 | It may have been an exhibition of the Tennant family wealth but it could not be added to their list of credits . |
| 12 | It may have been an attempt to clear the wood of all the trees , but before this was achieved the attempt was abandoned . |
| 13 | Carry on Sergeant may have been made on something of a shoestring ( or maybe it should have been an army bootstring ) with Ken making no more than £800 for his work , but efforts were made to get it all remarkably accurate . |
| 14 | It should have been an occasion for rejoicing . |
| 15 | Mind you the title was a bit funny because it did n't Almost an Angel but if he died and he went to heaven , then he must have been an angel but came back down , he 's still an angel . |
| 16 | It must have been an hour and a half at least before we managed to get the thing out of the water . |
| 17 | It must have been an hour or more . |
| 18 | It must have been an outsider . ’ |
| 19 | That 's an uncommon name , it must have been an ancestor of yours who translated the Bible into English . ’ |
| 20 | Alice said , " It might have been an emergency , how were you to know ? |
| 21 | ‘ I 'm always in search of a bargain , sonny — for the people , you understand , ’ he added after yet another of those pauses that suggested it might have been an after-thought . |
| 22 | I think Sam accidentally kicked Hannah , or kicked Hannah I do n't know I was n't there , but he came flying down , really got to curb that child he said , I said I beg your pardon , he said you 've got to curb that child kicking Hannah , I said if I 'd seen him kick her , he said that well I 'm not sure that he actually kicked her it might have been an accident |
| 23 | That little mark on her arm … they reckon it might have been an injection ! ’ |
| 24 | It might have been a technical failure or it might have been an action on the part of the operating crew or , indeed , a combination of both . |
| 25 | It might have been an omen . |
| 26 | With his pointed chin , he might have been an elf out of story-land . |
| 27 | To Constance 's English eyes , his skin was so brown he might have been an Indian . |
| 28 | It could have been an attack on Spiderglass itself . ’ |
| 29 | He looked into the cradle the painters were using to paint the outside of the balustrade from , and saw an old radio so spotted with paint it could have been an art exhibit . |
| 30 | ‘ But it seemed inconceivable that it could have been an accident . ’ |