Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] have been [verb] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was treating her like some harem favourite and she was repaying me in kind , except that any harem inmate who behaved with Lotta 's indiscretion would long since have been tied in a sack and dropped in the Bosporus ! ’ |
| 2 | You 'd 've been better off to have been booked in here for a good night 's sleep and then driven up the next day but then you 're virtually sort of getting up there turning round and coming back are n't you ? |
| 3 | This record so far has been dictated in one long burst . |
| 4 | A total of seven people were reported so far to have been killed in similar circumstances . |
| 5 | It 's about preventing crime , because people who are burgled would rather not have been burgled in the first place . |
| 6 | Sampson top scored for Sheffield with 12 and 13 not out having been kept in reserve too long in the second innings . |
| 7 | In those days the prostate was so far below the standard of respectability that it could not even have been mentioned in the newspaper . |
| 8 | Nevertheless , I think that the influence of Matisse is something which is far more elusive and may not yet have been expressed in painting . |
| 9 | For example , it included costs which ought more properly to have been included in their bill relating to the divorce proceedings , in which they were acting for the father . |
| 10 | The balance between industrial demand , speculation and monetary needs could probably never have been achieved in the inflationary context of the time . |
| 11 | On the other hand , if Coridon and Mopsa had originally been written in F major , for a soprano , it could perfectly well have been left in that key for Pate to sing ( an octave lower , of course ) , because it would go no lower than f . |
| 12 | Erm they wo n't all have been mentioned in in the brochure because we 've introduced one or two in the last erm year or so . |
| 13 | ‘ And in case you do n't believe me I would n't still have been covered in snow when I came in if I had ’ |
| 14 | Amongst other things , the computer was used to display a conventional set of instructions that could equally well have been provided in a printed form . |
| 15 | Wherever the feather came from , it must almost certainly have been put in his room by someone who knew of his visit to the lake . |
| 16 | In practice considerably more has been attempted in Francistown including suggestions for production of localised materials and in some cases their actual design and issue . |