Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [vb mod] have [been] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Malcolm Brodie , who must have been 80 yards away and looking at the player 's back , could say the goal was quite rightly disallowed . |
| 2 | Charlie heard the words , ‘ Carry on , Sergeant-Major , ’ and a moment later a man who must have been six feet six inches in height , and whose beer-barrel chest was covered in medal ribbons , took a pace forward . |
| 3 | Or a prissy tech pedant , who should have been one of my father 's scribes . ’ |
| 4 | Now she was smiling , accompanied by a very young Italian who might have been one of the waiters her old school-friend saved for the last . |
| 5 | Mrs Burke , who would have been 100 in three weeks , was found unconscious and bleeding heavily . |
| 6 | Mrs Burke , who would have been 100 next month , was found dying from head injuries in her bed on Monday . |
| 7 | It would be hard to find an artist more suited to the political needs of museum exhibitions in the early 1990s than Wifredo Lam , who would have been ninety years old this year . |
| 8 | Twenty-five years after everyone else , I am now discovering the joys of Hey Joe , Voodoo Chile and Purple Haze courtesy of The Ultimate Collection ( Polydor ) which contains 20 great songs from Hendrix who would have been 50 this month . |