Example sentences of "[vb infin] [be] [adv prt] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I must 've been out at the wrong time . |
| 2 | This is because all the variation margin payments due will have been up to the penultimate trading day . |
| 3 | ‘ You must have been up with the famous Ord Gaunt ? ’ says the man whose name Howard did n't quite catch , and the dense Middle English blackletter in which the words are uttered exactly matches their resonant profundity . |
| 4 | I suspect , though , there can be no doubt about which side she would have been on in the public debate about fox-hunting prompted by last week 's Private Member 's Bill . |
| 5 | Could they have been in with the real Communist underground ? ’ |
| 6 | Since I 've understood what management was about — I suppose that must have been back in the early 1950s — I 've had the philosophy that if I go into a job I must do it better than the bloke who 's been doing it before me . |