Example sentences of "you [modal v] not have been [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course , you may not have been responsible for an existing problem . |
| 2 | ‘ Oh , Alice — did n't you think — you might not have been able to do your training . |
| 3 | You could not have been better . |
| 4 | 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 ? |
| 5 | ‘ Well , if you did n't exist since I was last here , you could n't have been bored . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ 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 ? ’ |
| 7 | I know now that you could n't have been involved in Clive Kemp 's drug-running plans . |
| 8 | ‘ And you ca n't have been married long . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ‘ Then you would n't have been tough enough to be a Corosini , ’ he replied evenly . |
| 12 | You would n't have been able to hear a thing back at the house . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Well you would n't have been able to go if you 'd been erm |
| 15 | Oh , would have hit other kids cos you would n't have been naughty enough to be hit . |
| 16 | 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 . |