Example sentences of "he [vb mod] have been [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | He may have been conducting a formal press conference in very informal dress at a most abnormal time . |
| 2 | But he may have been wearing a dark ski cap of the Deerhunter style . |
| 3 | But he may have been wearing a dark ski cap of the Deerhunter style . |
| 4 | He may have been wearing a green bomber jacket . |
| 5 | He may have been looking a bit weary , but he was doing a splendid linking job and Whitton found it hard fill the gap . |
| 6 | Musician to the end , he died through insisting on conducting a new revival of Castor et Pollux when he should have been nursing an illness . |
| 7 | He should have been given a medal for trying to catch a car vandal . |
| 8 | Derek felt from an early age that he should have been born a woman . |
| 9 | ‘ Something is wrong , Fabia ? ’ he asked urgently , leaving his stance over by the French window where he must have been taking a look outside , to come over to her . |
| 10 | He must have been staggering a bit out there by the pool . |
| 11 | ‘ Looking back , what he said is really strange , bearing in mind he must have been murdered a little while later . ’ |
| 12 | Had he been there earlier he might have been asked a less direct question . |
| 13 | But he might have been speaking a foreign language . |
| 14 | He might have been planning a Cooks ' Tour . |
| 15 | He might have been giving an apple to a horse . |
| 16 | ‘ The evidence extends only as far as the lower scapula , does it not ’ He could have been wearing an off-the-shoulder toga . ’ |
| 17 | I could hardly blame him here — at least his feelings ; but even if , with an earlier and exact diagnosis he could have been spared a great deal of pain over a considerable period of time , I realize that nothing could have saved him . |
| 18 | While agreeing broadly with the England manager 's summing-up of the present Brazilian team , the thought did occur that in another footballing era he could have been describing an Italian side — brilliant in breakaways but giving nothing away at the back . |
| 19 | He could have been giving a traffic broadcast . |
| 20 | He could have been leading a parade , twirling the baton . |
| 21 | However , Nigel had not wished to leave his family and friends for the loneliness of the big city , even though he would have been earning a lot more money . |
| 22 | Indeed , had he been some eight years older , he would have been born a subject of the pope — but the Piedmontese put an end to that possibility when they invaded Rome in 1870 . |
| 23 | Early in this century , a half-Tsimshian called William Benyon ( he would have been called a ‘ half-breed ’ in the contemporary books of my childhood ) , interviewed all the tribal elders he could find and wrote their stories down . |
| 24 | Brian had given Scarlet the impression that , if it had not been for his first wife and her child , and his second wife and her child , he would have been living a life of carefree splendour in a house adjacent to the park . |
| 25 | Ricky had to steel himself not to take her in his arms , but he would have been putting a match to a petrol-soaked bonfire , and he did n't want to hate himself any more than he did already . |