Example sentences of "[noun pl] he [vb mod] have been [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Piggy is short-sighted ; and the spectacles he would have been prescribed for this condition could not possibly have been used as burning glasses . |
| 2 | I believe that if Piggy had not had so many physical defects he would have been allowed to make himself heard . |
| 3 | He got that way , if he was n't drunk on the days he should have been summonsed they used to trip him up . |
| 4 | It was bad enough trying to get to a classroom and he knew if he had explored the corridors he would have been lost for certain . |
| 5 | He is about parcels he may have been given . |
| 6 | Had it been out on the public streets he would have been arrested for a breach of the peace . |
| 7 | There was another tiled stove , and a desk littered with the papers he must have been working on , and two armchairs upholstered in pale brown to match a chaise-longue . |