Example sentences of "have be [pron] [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | I was a flying boy , came in here and all of a sudden was involved in an operation that , that was er quite intense erm the , the noise of the aircraft erm the erm hustle and bustle that we went through , the , the briefings and the er experience of , of erm having a meal that could 've been your last meal . |
2 | So this has been my first step towards designing something different . |
3 | For most it would have been their first experience of the internationalism of the movement . |
4 | Of all the people in the world to expose her seething mass of fears and insecurities to , Guy Sterne would have been her last choice … yet she 'd told him about Mortimer , she 'd carelessly made him a gift of her virginity , she 'd wildly announced she loved him , and now she was baring her soul over the painful anguish of her mother 's death … |
5 | It could have been her last name , or a state she like to exist in but I think it was a number involved . |
6 | ‘ Pity , it may have been your last day off for I do n't know how long . ’ |
7 | Last night Mr Gent 's heartbroken wife Jane said : ‘ Today would have been our 27th wedding anniversary . |
8 | Four months later her killer is still at large and detectives are looking at the possibility that she may not have been his first victim |
9 | The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle first refers to his presence under 994 , but this may not have been his first visit . |
10 | This , he agreed , would have been his first move had such a case landed on his desk , and he would have talked , too , to the local health visitor . |
11 | It was one of the tributes marking what would have been his fiftieth birthday , and as Paul Woodley now reports from New York , friends of the singer gathered at the United Nations to play the song as an anthem of peace . |
12 | The Glen would have been his hundredth race , but Cevert was tragically killed in practice and Ken withdrew his Tyrrells . |
13 | As for Mike Lawrence , it may have been his last test flight , but he was determined to go out in flamboyant style |
14 | Jimmy Nichol is the manager of Raith Rovers but that could have been his last match in charge as he is one of the favorites for the Northern Ireland match |
15 | That may have been my first mistake . |
16 | The two meanings are ( i ) ‘ the astronaut entered the atmosphere for ( at least ) the second time ’ and ( ii ) ‘ the astronaut returned to the atmosphere ( after what could have been his/her first trip into space ) ’ . |
17 | Spanish was to have been my next language : my winter 's task . |
18 | It had been her first time , she did n't love him , they did n't use any contraception and she definitely did n't expect to be pregnant as a result . |
19 | Sendei , despite his faults , had been her last link with a sane , reasonable universe . |
20 | What had been her last thoughts ? |
21 | The squash racquets , the Pope 's pronouncements , whose fault it had been their first night together , an afternoon really , but not much good in either case , the squash racquets again , the money spent on Grace . |
22 | For both these men it had been their first time out of the house for three weeks . |
23 | For Dan Knight and the crew of Mary Alice , it had been their 23rd mission . |
24 | It had been my thirtieth birthday in November . |
25 | It had been my first venture into the hotel business and probably my last — I take my hat off to anyone who makes it work . |
26 | ‘ To tell you the truth , I would n't mind if yesterday had been my last day . |
27 | He , whose picture Skaller now held in his hand , he had been his first love , his first love and his first passion ! |
28 | Lord Aldington denied it had been his first thought : ‘ Silence is the right word . ’ |
29 | In returning here he came full circle , back to the room which had been his first glimpse of the Fifth Dominion . |
30 | But it is also reminiscent of Cobham Park ( Fig. 12b ) , which had been his first glimpse as a child of the distant houses of the great . |