Example sentences of "[pers pn] [modal v] have been [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of those qualities appear to have been inherited by Frederick 's youngest son Herbert and , as already mentioned , some of them may have been present in Frederick 's uncle William . |
| 2 | The programmers who designed them may have been any of these things , but that is irrelevant . |
| 3 | Among them must have been many new men pushing up from below . |
| 4 | Feeding me must have been painful , and perhaps therefore an unpleasant emotional experience . |
| 5 | I would prefer not to have my guy stand up and say I may have been involved in an assassination . ’ |
| 6 | I may have been absent or something . |
| 7 | ‘ I may have been over-enthusiastic . |
| 8 | I may have been wrong proportionately as many times as the result of an amniocentesis turns out to have been wrong : that is , being wrong in both cases amounts to a hypothetical possibility , but is not normal . |
| 9 | ‘ Look , I may have been angry when I found out but … ’ |
| 10 | I 'll admit I may have been naïve … ’ |
| 11 | If pig butchers kept piggy banks , his must have been empty once in a while during this period … |
| 12 | I must have been asleep . |
| 13 | When he returned with the blankets I must have been asleep . |
| 14 | ‘ Dear me , I must have been asleep for … |
| 15 | If he did I must have been asleep . |
| 16 | I think maybe I must have been Spanish in some former life — I feel as though I 've come home . ’ |
| 17 | I must have been tired , she said to herself reasonably . |
| 18 | I must have been desperate ! |
| 19 | As I can remember very little about the rest of the day I presume that I must have been unconscious most of the time . |
| 20 | I must have been unconscious for hours . |
| 21 | I must have been unconscious a long time . |
| 22 | ‘ Idiot that I was , I was crass enough to insist , since I could n't see her privately ; to push her into a corner and tell her … tell her — oh , lord , I must have been mental ! — that if I could n't see her privately I would n't see her ever again . ’ |
| 23 | I must have been half-mad . |
| 24 | ‘ I must have been 13 . |
| 25 | I tried to stare my dislike into him but I must have been unsuccessful for he merely said with a primitive accent : ‘ Good in auto , yes ? ’ and grinned . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | I must have been jealous of her life away from me , and wished to have her entirely to myself . |
| 28 | I must have been wrong I suppose . |
| 29 | " I think I must have been mad , " said Mrs Denham , taking off the tea pot lid and staring nervously into its smoky silver depths . |
| 30 | I must have been mad to kill him ! |