Example sentences of "she [modal v] have been [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A teenager has told police she may have been the first victim of a man who 's attacked two women in recent months . |
| 2 | She must have been a hundred miles away , she realised , trying to get her thoughts together . |
| 3 | ‘ She must have been the only woman Paheri ever liked . |
| 4 | ‘ She must have been an extraordinary woman , ’ said Julia , trying to imagine living her life in a wheelchair and knowing that her attractive husband was falling in love with someone else . |
| 5 | She must have been an exceptional item , because Rich can hardly get the words out for trembling woooh noises and peculiar scatological asides . |
| 6 | She should have been the original ‘ It ’ girl , Clara Bow , but the staff , not for the last time , got it wrong , and put the more vampish Theda Bara on the cover instead . |
| 7 | She might have been the Abyssinian maid , playing a dulcimer and singing of Mount Abora . |
| 8 | She wondered whether to ask Mrs Baggley if she realised that she might have been the last person to see or hear of Paul Gray alive . |
| 9 | He is , he said my mother said she could have been a forensic scientist if it ha if I had n't been born ! |
| 10 | She could have been a top model . |
| 11 | She 'd have been a lovely ! |
| 12 | ‘ Even though she would have been a rich woman had she married him ? ’ |
| 13 | If she had n't yielded to a guilty passion then she would have been a better wife to Denny . |
| 14 | She would have been a young lass of twelve as JTR strode his way Arosward . |
| 15 | She would have been a talkative woman if she could . |
| 16 | She would have been the last person in the world to interfere with that . |
| 17 | In the life he himself might well have had , she would have been an obvious and natural choice . |