Example sentences of "[pers pn] [modal v] have been [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I must have been 13 . |
| 2 | I must have been six or seven — something like that — and we had drawing lessons once a week , taken , believe it or not , by a Mr Moore . |
| 3 | Then one evening — I must have been 12 or 13 at the time — we were driving back from visiting my nan in Kent . |
| 4 | ‘ 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ 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 . |
| 6 | He said slowly and dangerously , ‘ I daresay I might have been four bob down at the end of an evening . |
| 7 | ‘ It 's chilling and frightening to realise I could have been one of his victims . ’ |
| 8 | I could have been one of those prophets who foretold him . |
| 9 | four years to wait and I 'd have been sixteen . ’ |
| 10 | And If I 'd have been ninety six |
| 11 | I would have been 3.5 ft tall . |
| 12 | N well I was I was erm I would have been called up in another two months after the War was over , if the War had continued I would have been eighteen in in that in the following January . |
| 13 | Well , ten years ago I would have been twelve but |
| 14 | Had I been born in the Middle Ages , I knew that I would have been one of those retainers who stayed inside the castle and embroidered whilst the knights went off to slaughter the French . |
| 15 | She may have been one of the Bristol Seekers from whom many Quakers at this time were recruited . |
| 16 | She may have been three years older than he was , pushing forty and not quite as pert as the sort of girl he favoured at this precise moment , but one day Jack would grow up , look for a real woman to take care of him , and there she 'd be , waiting and ready . |
| 17 | ‘ The fact that Simon worshipped the ground you walked on means you must have been one hundred per cent certain that when you told him he 'd insist on marrying you — which he did — so what difference did that one day make to you ? ’ |
| 18 | The set ends at just the point where she was becoming a fashionable figure and , eventually , a popular one on a wider scale ; by the end of the Forties , she must have been one of the most admired singers of her day . |
| 19 | She must have been sixteen or seventeen summers old , tall and slender , and her eyes were as blue as a clear summer sky . |
| 20 | She did not look like a predatory widow and she was no superannuated dolly-bird either ; she must have been fifty , she was on the plump side , clear skinned , with a frank , open face . |
| 21 | " Oh give her a lump of sugar , " he said ; she might have been one of his least favourite horses . |
| 22 | She might have been sixty or sixty-five . |
| 23 | Because that 's when she 'd have been fifteen . |
| 24 | Suppose Delia had become friendly with Angy and gone to her flat that afternoon She 'd have been one of the last people to see her alive . ’ |
| 25 | yeah so she 'd have been twenty |
| 26 | No cos she 'd have been twenty then would n't she almost |
| 27 | Yeah , well you should of done that five hands ago and then you 'd have been seventy five pence down ! |
| 28 | There were rumours they 'd been having an affair while he was actually teaching her , when she would have been fifteen ; there were rumours the girl was pregnant . |
| 29 | ‘ She would have been fourteen at the time of the Opet festival . ’ |
| 30 | Surely she would have been one of the first to hear . |