Example sentences of "you [modal v] have [been] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Oh , but you must have been a little girl once , Headmistress . |
| 2 | ‘ You must have been a success , ’ Aunt Emily said . |
| 3 | ‘ You must have been a kid in school ! |
| 4 | But it made me think you must have been a friend of Hugh 's . |
| 5 | You must have been a Leeds fan subconciously before : - ) ) |
| 6 | ‘ You should 've been a policeman . |
| 7 | You should 've been a lot through more than five . |
| 8 | ‘ You should have been a courtier . ’ |
| 9 | ’ You should have been a monk . |
| 10 | ‘ You should have been a big game hunter , Maggie . ’ |
| 11 | You should have been a guerrilla leader , Sara , you delight in winning small skirmishes . " |
| 12 | ‘ You should have been a poet ! |
| 13 | You should have been an actor . |
| 14 | Spencer said easily , ‘ I think you might have been a little more enthusiastic about such lovely slippers , they are a work of art , you must be very pleased to find someone with the talent to work as well as the best London shoemakers and at a fraction of the price , if I 'm any judge . ’ |
| 15 | For example , you might have been a mere , much more happy about making a sacrifice for your brother , giving him a sweet , if you knew that on other occasions , he would give one to you , and because you are related to each other . |
| 16 | ‘ If it had been a different time you 'd have been a doctor or an engineer , ’ Rose said . |
| 17 | Okay you covered all that okay yeah erm I think the objection bit you could 've been a bit better on that one erm cos that was quite a sort of bad one , well you 're not too sure about sort of giving his name or his telephone number out |
| 18 | You could 've been a real trendsetter , you could 've put Ghostbuster stripes on it |
| 19 | ‘ You could have been a great cabinet maker , ’ she told him . |
| 20 | There 's nobody in this world more sorry for you at times than I am , for you could have been a real good-lookin' , strappin' fella . |
| 21 | You could have been a British Champion by now — why did you give it up ? ’ |
| 22 | ‘ You could have been a well-brought-up sex-mad pervert . ’ |
| 23 | You could have been the next player |
| 24 | ‘ You could have been an artist . ’ |
| 25 | In medieval times you would have been a Sanguine , Melancholy , Choleric or Phlegmatic type . |
| 26 | ( Did the romanticists among you imagine that you would have been a member of the gentry if you were alive in this England of 1700 ? ) |
| 27 | You would have been a brave man to accuse them of it . |
| 28 | ‘ And you would have been a ready-made rich lady , and not have to marry a gentleman . ’ |
| 29 | You 've Radio York all week , they must have been over er over overwhelmed for callers I imagine this week , I would have thought you would have been a boon to anybody 's talk show . |