Example sentences of "you [modal v] have been [adj] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | you know there was I 've got a policy er here that I can take out and you took it and then that was it and you spent the rest of the time talking about this one policy whereas , because you 'd been thinking about that one , there may have been others that you may have been able to disturb her about or erm you know if she had other member of the family or education , whatever , there was , there was other areas that maybe you could 've brought up or gone back to anyway . |
| 2 | You must have been able to squeeze half an hour sometime or other . |
| 3 | Oh , you must have been able to squeeze half an hour some time or other . |
| 4 | ‘ Perhaps you should have been present to hear him speak . |
| 5 | If you can answer all those questions , with a fair degree of confidence , about your product , you should have been able to decide what your brand 's strengths and weaknesses in the marketplace are . |
| 6 | Preferably , you should have been able to read the text over before the lecture . |
| 7 | The fact that you might have been able to get it yourself is only relevant if you can not afford to buy it . |
| 8 | ‘ You 'd have been able to live very comfortably if you 'd taken the money I offered , after we separated , ’ he pointed out . |
| 9 | ‘ You mean you 'd have been able to pull strings ? ’ said Bob . |
| 10 | If you were one of the few to risk the Queen Elizabeth Hall on Monday , you would have been able to find no information about the composers being played . |
| 11 | You might also be consistently failing to hear other sounds that you would have been able to hear ( and produce too ) had you approached the problem methodically by means of the workchart . |
| 12 | If you had n't decided to retaliate for my plain-speaking , you would have been willing to pay the price for my escort to Winchester . ’ |
| 13 | My dear Mrs Goreng , I felt like saying , you would have been surprised to come across a hotelier who 'd read Thomas Mann . |