Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb mod] have [been] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although incomes had to be given , assessment of the personal property of ‘ spiritual men ’ was not stipulated , and since the clergy were customarily taxed more heavily than the laity a good many of them may have been less than forthcoming . |
| 2 | At all events the rent from them must have been very considerable . |
| 3 | I may have been too authoritarian … |
| 4 | I ought to have been very grateful to ATV for sponsoring my work . |
| 5 | I ought to have been home two hours ago . " |
| 6 | During the last summer of the disease , when I weighed under six stone , I must have been perpetually cold . |
| 7 | I must have been awfully slow , I never got in ahead of her and was always the poor mutt who staggered into the office in the small hours , bleary-eyed and half-dead , while Olive , yawning profusely and clutching her hot water bottle to her bosom , was able to trip down the path to her waiting bed and not surface till about midday the next day . |
| 8 | So , anyway , I must have been downstairs doing something and I do n't ne sh sh I did n't know what time this interview feller was coming only , that I was downstairs and I heard Tracey say , oh what 's his name then Mike ? |
| 9 | I THINK I must have been slightly mad for most of my life . |
| 10 | In the glaring light , the racket of cicadas , the events of the night seemed in some way fictional ; as if I must have been slightly drugged . |
| 11 | I must have been partly stupefied by something they gave me . |
| 12 | And erm I think I was in the middle somewhere , I was n't er brilliant but I must have been somewhere in the middle I suppose . |
| 13 | Though I must have been around just at that time , I think . |
| 14 | I must have been quite content and happy . |
| 15 | It was a hot day , and I think I must have been half asleep when I noticed something very strange . |
| 16 | ‘ I suppose I must have been half off my head , without the booze , since Friday when Rosemary finished with me . ’ |
| 17 | I had kept all the abuse that had been happening to me very much to myself — it seemed to me that I must have been very bad . |
| 18 | I must have been very naive . |
| 19 | I must have been too upset . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ I must have been still asleep or something . ’ |
| 21 | I must have been there about five or ten minutes ? |
| 22 | It seems to me now that I must have been more than a little simple , because I received a telephone call from the home the very next day . |
| 23 | I think I must have been gradually going off into a faint when I suddenly thought of mother reading the telegram saying that I had been killed in action . |
| 24 | ERICK : ‘ I must have been about 18 and he was a DJ in a local nightclub . |
| 25 | I must have been about six or seven at this time . |
| 26 | I must have been about fifteen when I received my first love letter . |
| 27 | I must have been about twelve , I suppose . |
| 28 | I must have been about nine , but I still remember my dad putting his back to the door , after Pikey had gone home from a seance . |
| 29 | No she still buys smooth erm I remember I must have been about three years old , it was when we were still up North and mummy was dashing out , it was breakfast time and she go easy on the peanut butter , there 's hardly any left . |
| 30 | As I pull up at the back of the hotel Mr Shah is waiting with a folder full ; his expression , although friendly , contains around his mouth a little reproach that I should have been away from the action for so long . |