Example sentences of "[pers pn] [modal v] have been able " in BNC.
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| 1 | I should have been able to say , Fuck you , I 'll go my own way : as you did , as Sergei did . |
| 2 | By four o'clock , I knew from the morning 's reckoning that I should have been able to see the Land Rover . |
| 3 | I always felt I should have been able to protect my mother better but I could n't . |
| 4 | I should have been able to give him something to hope for , " he thought with a sigh , as he descended the half dozen stairs and went to kneel beside Miriam on the stone flags . |
| 5 | Although I remember him stepping out of them and the sight of his white pants , I felt it was not seemly to observe too closely : otherwise I should have been able to verify the assertion that his underclothes were American but the rest very English . |
| 6 | I might have been able to afford to pay them on the spot because of the win , but I still had to get home on the train that night . |
| 7 | ‘ If only he had confided in me earlier I might have been able to help . |
| 8 | I might have been able to pay you off within six months ! ’ |
| 9 | ‘ If we 'd known , my father and I might have been able to help him ! |
| 10 | I doubt I 'd have been able to hear anything from the gallery . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ Without that I do n't think I 'd have been able to leave home at 17 , be mature enough to manage my own career and be in a steady relationship for three-and-a-half years . |
| 12 | But , with the tape , I 'd have been able to extract a pretty pension from him , as Beatrix calculated . |
| 13 | On that particular occasion , had I not recognized Miss Kenton 's footsteps on the boards as she came towards me , I would have been able to identify her only from her outline . |
| 14 | ‘ I felt it had to be my fault : I was a weak human being with no moral fibre or I would have been able to kick the habit . ’ |
| 15 | But if they had n't been there , if they had been different kinds of men erm , I do n't think I would have been able to pick someone to be my husband or my partner who could be a decent father to my kids . |
| 16 | If you 'd been around , I 'm sure I would have been able to say no . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ Not that I would have been able to do much anyway , that thing 's a death trap ! |
| 18 | I knew she had n't been in the garden , I would have been able to smell her . |
| 19 | you know there was I 've got a policy er here that I can take out and you took it and then that was it and you spent the rest of the time talking about this one policy whereas , because you 'd been thinking about that one , there may have been others that you may have been able to disturb her about or erm you know if she had other member of the family or education , whatever , there was , there was other areas that maybe you could 've brought up or gone back to anyway . |
| 20 | By allowing Tepilit to engage in the formalities of gift exchange , she may have been able to observe at close quarters how it worked , but she was also entering into the drama . |
| 21 | You must have been able to squeeze half an hour sometime or other . |
| 22 | Oh , you must have been able to squeeze half an hour some time or other . |
| 23 | If you can answer all those questions , with a fair degree of confidence , about your product , you should have been able to decide what your brand 's strengths and weaknesses in the marketplace are . |
| 24 | Preferably , you should have been able to read the text over before the lecture . |
| 25 | She must have been able to lick enough water to keep alive , ’ he said . |
| 26 | She must have been able to tell from my face how I felt about that . |
| 27 | ’ Right , ’ Mala said , with more crispness than she should have been able to produce . |
| 28 | And , despite the luxurious comfort of the aeroplane — in which she should have been able to relax her tired mind and body — she felt totally overwhelmed by the day 's events . |
| 29 | She did n't sign , and whatever words she might have been able to lipread were lost because the lighting in the delivery room was terrible . |
| 30 | Mr Crichton said if Leslie had been armed with such a baton — which is standard issue for officers in the United States — she might have been able to protect herself . |