Example sentences of "[pron] [modal v] have been [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | " I think I must have been mad , " said Mrs Denham , taking off the tea pot lid and staring nervously into its smoky silver depths . |
| 32 | I must have been mad to kill him ! |
| 33 | I must have been mad on the strength of one fish , going all out boilies but it was a double and I just had a feeling this was how the better fish might fall . |
| 34 | I must have been mad for a few hours , and I swept you up in it too . |
| 35 | Her face flaming , Luce muttered , ‘ I must have been mad to let you seduce me . ’ |
| 36 | I guess I must have been frightened but it all happened so quickly . |
| 37 | Looking back on it , I 've decided I must have been clear round the bend ! |
| 38 | I must have been crackers even to think it ! ’ |
| 39 | I must have been tight . |
| 40 | I 'd look better blonde and I assumed that I could wash the colour out before my parents saw : I must have been naive to think that bleach would affect my hair differently from anything else . |
| 41 | Then one evening — I must have been 12 or 13 at the time — we were driving back from visiting my nan in Kent . |
| 42 | ‘ I must have been insane , ’ he muttered . |
| 43 | Oh , Billie , I must have been crazy to let you come with me . |
| 44 | I must have been crazy to think you needed protecting . |
| 45 | ‘ I must have been crazy to say yes , ’ mutters Rainbow in her morning shower . |
| 46 | " I 'm sorry you ca n't come with me to the village feast ; I should have been delighted to take you — but then the geese might come to harm . |
| 47 | A pity : I should have been delighted if the two writers , Johnson and Thomson , could achieve a time-machine meeting over the vandalising of Elgin Cathedral . |
| 48 | ‘ I do n't have any argument with the players who have received wild-card entries but I do feel I should have been one of them . |
| 49 | ‘ I do n't have any argument with the players who have received wild-card entries but I do feel I should have been one of them . |
| 50 | You think I should have been living life to the full , then , and not mourning your brother ? ’ |
| 51 | " I should have been honest with that child this morning . " |
| 52 | I should have been pleased , I should have been flattered , and indeed I was . |
| 53 | I suppose I should have been suspicious then , realised something was n't right . ’ |
| 54 | She had a huge holdall with her — I should have been suspicious , but I was n't , I was too wrapped up in my own problems . |
| 55 | If I could have seen a respectable way to dismiss this appeal I should have been happy to do so . |
| 56 | Were we so I should have been happy to kill you for speaking so of my daughter . |
| 57 | If Pine v. Collacott itself had originally been under challenge in your Lordships ' House on the ground that in an obligatory section 7(4) case the simple requirement that the driver provide a specimen of blood without reference to the possible alternative of urine was insufficient , I should have been inclined to reject that challenge . |
| 58 | ‘ I know I should have been stronger , Lachlan . |
| 59 | I should have been able to say , Fuck you , I 'll go my own way : as you did , as Sergei did . |
| 60 | By four o'clock , I knew from the morning 's reckoning that I should have been able to see the Land Rover . |