Example sentences of "he [vb mod] have been [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the team 's player/manager he may have been man of the match but even our ebullient was eclipsed by . |
| 2 | In his early days , he must have been hell to tie down . |
| 3 | He must have been fishing . |
| 4 | During interviews he denied all knowledge of how the fire started but investigators said he must have been awarethat Bailey had confessed to his wife . |
| 5 | And still without needing to turn my head , but looking straight to the front , and walking at the same even pace along the path , I was conscious of a man perched motionless on the top bar of the gate , one leg over , so still that he might have been part of the gate itself . |
| 6 | He might have been Director if the Home Office had n't passed him over and appointed Dr. Howarth . " |
| 7 | If he was a bit deadlier in the balls he 'd have been world champion . ’ |
| 8 | If she and Tom had been two men he would have been discretion itself , she thought . |
| 9 | He 's won umpteen Grands Prix and if Dalgety could have managed a tighter mechanical edge last season the general consensus is that he would have been world champion . |