Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb mod] have been an " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I found there was no coffee in the house I 'd shout and swear at her and I must have been an absolute pain to live with . |
| 2 | ‘ I should have been an accountant or an administrator instead of a doctor ! |
| 3 | I should have been an actress . |
| 4 | You should have been an actor . |
| 5 | She must have been an exceptional item , because Rich can hardly get the words out for trembling woooh noises and peculiar scatological asides . |
| 6 | ‘ She must have been an extraordinary woman , ’ said Julia , trying to imagine living her life in a wheelchair and knowing that her attractive husband was falling in love with someone else . |
| 7 | she left that and she 's gone to do her midwifery and now when she gets the other day she was looking at old pay slips God , she must have been an idiot to give up a sister 's post cos she said her wages have dropped terrible to do this course ! |
| 8 | ‘ You could have been an artist . ’ |
| 9 | In the life he himself might well have had , she would have been an obvious and natural choice . |
| 10 | Deposited on the runway , horribly close to the fast lane , we must have been an unusual sight for incoming international passengers , gazing at a three-horse traffic island . |
| 11 | We 'll have ha we will have been an irrel irrelevant to them for so long that when they do find another job or even a first job , then we will have a major task to convince them of the value of trade union membership . |
| 12 | Although I am not a Christian and certainly do not read the bible , God , for me would have been an excuse not to sort it out myself . |
| 13 | The thin , clever , spatulate fingers — they could have been an apothecary 's or a musician 's — held the roll of parchment delicately ; the light blue eyes studied Hotspur 's face without disguise and without wavering . |
| 14 | It may have been an aristocratic èlite , but it was also unruly , unpredictable , and extremely difficult to manage . |
| 15 | It may have been an exhibition of the Tennant family wealth but it could not be added to their list of credits . |
| 16 | ‘ It may have been an ambush , ’ the thin man said . |
| 17 | A year or so later , or it may have been an hour , I crumpled up four sheets of paper and threw them to the floor , and started another , and I was there . |
| 18 | It may have been an attempt to clear the wood of all the trees , but before this was achieved the attempt was abandoned . |
| 19 | It may have been an obligation to a third person : see Herring v. Dorell ( ( 1840 ) 8 Dowl . |
| 20 | Depending upon when Edmund 's Welsh alliance was made , it may have been an additional factor in persuading Eadric to change his allegiance , or a move to put pressure on him once he had deserted . |
| 21 | It is understood police believe it may have been an isolated incident . |
| 22 | It is understood police believe it may have been an isolated incident . |
| 23 | He may have been an outstanding goalkeeper but he was hardly a product of the Harvard Business School . |
| 24 | An E minor when it should have been an E major brings the rehearsal to yet another halt while the suspect note is cordially argued over by the boys in the band . |
| 25 | It should have been an occasion for rejoicing . |
| 26 | Carry on Sergeant may have been made on something of a shoestring ( or maybe it should have been an army bootstring ) with Ken making no more than £800 for his work , but efforts were made to get it all remarkably accurate . |
| 27 | He must have been an eligible enough bachelor : the son of a fairly prosperous artisan family , trained as a craftsman , and quite a handsome chap into the bargain . |
| 28 | ‘ Oh , yes , please ! ’ returned Sally-Anne , and then caught her breath again , when he turned his head , presenting her with his beautiful , undamaged profile — he must have been an absolute stunner before he was disfigured . |
| 29 | Mind you the title was a bit funny because it did n't Almost an Angel but if he died and he went to heaven , then he must have been an angel but came back down , he 's still an angel . |
| 30 | It must have been an hour and a half at least before we managed to get the thing out of the water . |