Example sentences of "i [modal v] have been [adj] for " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
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| 1 | ‘ Dear me , I must have been asleep for … |
| 2 | I must have been unconscious for hours . |
| 3 | I must have been mad for a few hours , and I swept you up in it too . |
| 4 | If I had been counting , or had been more familiar with the aircraft or the sequence , I might have been ready for him . |
| 5 | ‘ I 'd have been delighted for you to have been squeezed in next to me . |
| 6 | I 'm not saying I 'd have been good for him or him for me , but it did provide a link in a chain that was to tie me to glory in the Open . |
| 7 | One day I shall lie beside that grave and the stone will say ‘ Angharad ’ and I shall have been dead for a long time . |