Example sentences of "i [modal v] not have been [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | McCallan said : ‘ I may not have been in the game a lot until I got my goal , but that made it up for it . ’ |
| 2 | I should n't have been in his study in the first place . |
| 3 | Hill said : ‘ I should n't have been in that position in the first place if I had not spun on the opening lap . |
| 4 | Hill said : ‘ I should n't have been in that position in the first place if I had not spun on the opening lap . |
| 5 | Save for this fluke I could not have been in the position in which I now found myself . |
| 6 | If it had n't been a yorker I 'd have looked an absolute idiot , I would n't have been in the same street , let alone cricket ground . |
| 7 | ‘ When Gary Fleming got injured I was considering putting Pat on and I would n't have been in the slightest bit worried , ’ he stated . |
| 8 | Fortunately the incident took place during the school holidays , otherwise I would not have been in the garden later in the morning , when a cock started crowing . |