Example sentences of "that he [vb mod] have been [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fenella thought that it was a pity that Caspar was so scared of the giants , because he knew so much about Tara that he might have been of considerable help . |
| 2 | Julia knew that he might have been in the room while she was unconscious , but his absence during her times awake began to fret her . |
| 3 | It is just that in that particular situation he had to act as he did , and to have acted differently would have meant that he would have been in the wrong though not for the same reason . |
| 4 | I did n't want to get into soap opera conversation about it with him , but on the occasions that we did talk about it , both of us felt that someone , with perhaps a little more eye on reality , would have realised that he should have been in hospital and not at home unable to reach oxygen . |
| 5 | He started to give her expert directions and it was plain that he must have been to this particular establishment before . |
| 6 | It had never occurred to her that he 'd have been on his way to bed . |