Example sentences of "[vb infin] [be] [verb] she [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He might have been receiving her in the best parlour on a Sunday afternoon . |
| 2 | Yes , it was real , it was happening : sitting with her back straight and her head up in the carriage on the way back , she thought how proud her father would have been to see her at the centre of all this pomp and splendour , and found herself mentally comparing his craggy looks and red beard with Joãs clean-shaven face and small , manicured hands . |
| 3 | ‘ The best chance would have been to grab her on the way in , ’ the man said . |
| 4 | Three of the medical staff who attended her independently assured her that had she not been so fit and supple they would have been measuring her for a wheelchair , or worse . |
| 5 | He might have been asking her about the traffic on the way in from the airport . |