Example sentences of "[vb infin] [been] [verb] [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dunwoody had in the past won on Norton 's Coin and would have been riding him in the Gold Cup had Desert Orchid been absent . |
| 2 | However , some on-the-job training , in skills such as cash handling or food preparation , is usually given to seasonal workers and this allows them to be moved into tasks which would have been denied them at the start of their employment . |
| 3 | Now several mornings a week when perhaps she should have been concerning herself with the house ( she delegated more and more to the housekeeper , who after all had run everything before she , Lily , had come ) , she would go and sit with Sadie , who was expecting another child at Christmas . |
| 4 | Someone must have been reading it during an attack of constipation . |
| 5 | The item may be faulty , or the wrong size/colour , or the customer may have been given it as a present . |
| 6 | She 'd have been wearing it on a day like this . ’ |
| 7 | He might have been receiving her in the best parlour on a Sunday afternoon . |
| 8 | ‘ It must have been bothering you for a few days . ’ |
| 9 | I must have been misguiding myself for a very long time Mr . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | and of course and we would have been patting ourselves on the back saying we could go in under |
| 12 | Well er by the time I arrived at the doorway to the room erm a male person was lying on the floor , spreadeagled er and my job would have been to cover him with the shot gun er to enable P C to go forward and handcuff the chap . |
| 13 | I may have been approaching it from the wrong angle . |
| 14 | ‘ The best chance would have been to grab her on the way in , ’ the man said . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Of course , the easiest thing to do would have been to change someone into a frog or snail or some other small creature which could easily be kept hidden in a box until she returned . |
| 17 | well I 've given many , many different answers here , I could have been here all day , giving you just between point five and point six , and you 'd have been giving one as the answer every time . |
| 18 | A SEEMS to me as though you may have been overfeeding them with a fertiliser containing quite a lot of nitrogen and perhaps over-watering . |
| 19 | The alternator , which should have been recharging it during the flight , for some reason was n't . |
| 20 | The alternator , which should have been recharging it during the flight , for some reason was n't . |
| 21 | He might have been asking her about the traffic on the way in from the airport . |
| 22 | perhaps the Company 's lack of comment on its own future , which must increasingly have been worrying them at the turn of the century . |
| 23 | I thought — if it had been my parents who had been talking , they would have been doing it at the tops of their voices , for surely on the content alone that conversation had been a row . |