Example sentences of "[vb infin] [adv] [been] " in BNC.
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| 1 | First of all erm we 'll you you you 've obviously been round the construction industry a bit . |
| 2 | Cos say I was looking for angles and that would 've just been fifty up here would n't it . |
| 3 | Anyway sh she phoned me back and she said yes he was , he was dead keen , he wished it 'd 've just been like pop quiz but he 'll go anyway . |
| 4 | Very hectic at the moment it 's should 've normally been dropping off quite a lot this time but |
| 5 | Not only for now , but for everything ; all the help you 've always been to me . ’ |
| 6 | And the fact that your wife is erm there was something that could 've possibly been done for your wife and that is something that maybe I would 've mentioned at the end , do you think this would of be any benefit to the wife only as maybe an ending statement or something |
| 7 | If you do you 've probably been watching OWL TV after school . |
| 8 | ‘ I am disappointed because I finished fresh and fifth where I would have rather been exhausted and higher in the list . |
| 9 | Had BR had more time and more funding , had the government been more sympathetic towards the railway investment and had there been no recession , the APT might have eventually been successful — but that is another story . |
| 10 | If the retailer had committed an offence under section 1 , could Cadbury have properly been convicted under section 23 ? |
| 11 | The Ridgeway on the Berkshire Downs is edged by the traces of thousands of acres of late prehistoric fields and would have merely been one lane among many passing through a totally cultivated landscape . |
| 12 | Whether or not the USSR will increase oil exports and whether it can do so have long been areas of heated debate . |
| 13 | The way he wears you down , the way he bleeds you white — if his name were Julian Barnes , he would have long been known as the Glacier . |
| 14 | However , what is most interesting is that a deliberate attempt was made to sell it as a concept rather than as what might have hitherto been seen as a package of infrastructural measures . |
| 15 | It would have obviously been complicated to get them in to Darlington so we sent the lecturer to them . |
| 16 | Hypotheses , then , help us to refine theory by bringing more details into consideration in areas of research which may previously have only been explored in a rather sketchy way . |
| 17 | He had only gone out socially with his secretary for after-work drinks and may then have only been less formal than if her were at work . ’ |
| 18 | We 'd have only been off duty together during Dave Mason 's nights on call . |
| 19 | There may have only been just under 500 runners , and it may never rival the London Marathon , but it was good to see this significant part of the running world back on the map again . |
| 20 | Only the original ball can be used , and must have only been touched or handled by the player throwing in . |
| 21 | Could that have only been yesterday — and at about this time ? |
| 22 | In the past members wanting to enforce rights against their union were burdened with the costs of litigation , which may have only been mitigated to some extent by the availability of legal aid . |
| 23 | But Conservative Coun. Peter Jones said the bill would have only been a fraction of that if the controlling Labour group had taken action when defects in the building were detailed in reports in 1985 and 1986 . |
| 24 | The shop , I mean there must have only been about five or six people in the shop . |
| 25 | But whatever satisfaction Scott may have gained from the debate and the fact that he had been given six months to prepare a new design , it must have soon been dispelled by the public press and the action of some of his professional colleagues . |
| 26 | My only complaint is that room could have easily been found for , say , the Pulcinella Suite , which , given the tremendous form of everyone concerned here , is quite a tantalising thought . |
| 27 | All the kids , still not a word , a silence ; as if gripped by a spell ; afterwards , you thought about it , the whirling boy , he could have easily been you . |
| 28 | And they could have easily been one up at that particular time which was a minute . |
| 29 | To give them the right to vote by absorbing them into one of the English constituencies and it could have easily been done . |
| 30 | He says it could have easily been him , but they know the risk when they get ready to start . |