Example sentences of "you [modal v] [adv] have been [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Conference , if you think back to all those times that you have sat at home watching the news after a day 's work like I have , and listen carefully to what is being said , you may well have been horrified and saddened to hear the many stories appertaining to people who have had accidents or died due to the fact that the machine they have been driving has been too powerful . |
| 2 | Of course , you may not have been responsible for an existing problem . |
| 3 | ‘ You must only have been infatuated with him if you 've got over him so quickly , ’ remarked Betty repressively . |
| 4 | If you 're going to have to find a much larger area you have to spread your net wider to find more and more sites for development which you might otherwise have been able to save from development , and there will an environmental cost , a cost to the quality of life of people living nearby because sites you might not wish to have developed must be included to find the target figure of industrial development . |
| 5 | ‘ Oh , Alice — did n't you think — you might not have been able to do your training . |
| 6 | ‘ I expect you 've heard the rumours about us seeking further investment for the station — you might even have been privy to some inside information . ’ |
| 7 | You 'd likely have been sorry if you had n't , 'cos you 've been on the verge of snapping . |
| 8 | You could not have been better . |
| 9 | Sean , you could n't have been that shit-faced that you could n't go upto the Roger and ask him whether he was Roger or not ? |
| 10 | ‘ Well , if you did n't exist since I was last here , you could n't have been bored . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ So if you were in your van you could n't have been two hundred yards away on the scaffolding behind Benson 's furniture shop ? ’ |
| 12 | I know now that you could n't have been involved in Clive Kemp 's drug-running plans . |
| 13 | ‘ And you ca n't have been married long . |
| 14 | You would not have been able to take in the words I had planned to say that night , the night of number one hundred and fifty-six . |
| 15 | Yes it was at two down and the every time Palace went forward in the early stages you thought to yourself , here comes another goal because they looked like scoring , they were so dangerous , of course he 's a real threat and he got the better of for that first goal , er he was er danger all the time and er it was a little bit from er County 's performance in reverse to that of the previous week at Forest , where erm Palace were so good in the first half and er you would n't have been surprised if they 'd gone in two nil or even three nil ahead , the penalty brought Notts back into the game . |
| 16 | ‘ Then you would n't have been tough enough to be a Corosini , ’ he replied evenly . |
| 17 | You would n't have been able to hear a thing back at the house . |
| 18 | Sponsorship should of course be the icing on the cake , there should be enough in , in competition in regattas and themselves but people are interested enough to go and to support and that sponsorship actually allows you to do things that you would n't have been able to do otherwise . |
| 19 | Well you would n't have been able to go if you 'd been erm |
| 20 | Oh , would have hit other kids cos you would n't have been naughty enough to be hit . |
| 21 | You would presumably have been aware that Skelton had undergone a tremendous expansion on its south side ? |
| 22 | By that time , as Adam said , you would actually have been shocked if the temperature had dropped or a shower of rain fallen . |
| 23 | You will have spotted the chub , or signs of them , from some distance up or downstream , because you will not have been able to approach them upright on an open bank without them spotting you first . |
| 24 | You will still have been able to describe your emotional characteristics and personality , and that 's important in its own right . |