Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] been [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | For those of us old enough to have been around at the time of the birth of rock ‘ n ’ roll , the idea of an advanced course in the music which made both us and our parents jump ( but in opposite directions ) may be hard to accommodate . |
| 2 | But at its finest , it reaches heights of eloquence that can not have been most on the leaders of the next generation and it is music that ought to be heard in our halls . |
| 3 | It could not have been otherwise for the attainment of the required goal of the perfect human being was possible by no other means . |
| 4 | Well it is three hundred and twenty thousand pound that they 're paying to this person that should not have been there in the first place , he walked on there , he built places there without planning permission and I think if the council had played their cards right , they could have got him off without paying out this three hundred twenty thousand pound . |
| 5 | Harry could already have been here in the porch . |
| 6 | But it would hardly have been so to the ‘ vulgar ’ . |
| 7 | Could n't possibly have been there in the old days . |
| 8 | It was warm and dry and could not possibly have been out in the snow storm . |
| 9 | → Sorry to have forgotten about the Pacifica , Graham — although , come to think of it , Charvel/Jackson might also have been in on the act back in the mid-eighties . |
| 10 | Now she knew that Fernando was in contact with Maria Luisa and probably had been right from the off . |
| 11 | I would rather have been down at the villa making figgy hedgehogs for Tony but a promise is a promise . |
| 12 | I know , you would n't have been there in the first place . |
| 13 | Of course , if I 'd really had any sense I would n't have been there in the first place . |
| 14 | Worse , the decision briefly poisoned relations between Niki and James , which until then had been well within the bounds of friendly competition . |
| 15 | Clearly , vertical arrangements take a variety of forms , and they are an important feature of industrial society , indeed have been so since the Industrial Revolution . |
| 16 | The simple fact of the matter is that we should never have been there in the first place . |
| 17 | My thoughts the leaf stem should never have been there in the first place it was a waste of money . |
| 18 | The aircraft had a peculiar motion , rather like a small boat in a heavy ocean swell , or rather what I imagined that must feel like , never having been out on the open sea in a small boat . |
| 19 | ‘ I joined the refinery straight from university , never having been anywhere near the place before , and within ten weeks I was actually in charge of my own shift . |