Example sentences of "[vb infin] been [adv] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er you saw the er saw him five years ago in the navy , now it could 've been just a regular check which every seaman gets or it could be , it could 've been something of a serious nature . |
| 2 | Police think it could 've been just a dirty night out . |
| 3 | Although it must have been over a hundred years old the cottage was still on the edge of the village simply because there was no building land beyond it . |
| 4 | It would have been rather a dangerous step to take you know , to con even consider er that . |
| 5 | But it would have been exactly the same problem simple harmonic motion |
| 6 | ‘ In that case you should have been here a few hours ago . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ There must have been just a small problem of logistics . |
| 8 | ‘ It all seemed to go on for a long time , but it must have been just a few seconds . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ I think a part of me probably died when I took your job , though it may have been just the settling-down thing . |
| 10 | They went in behind Sir George , who waved his huge cone of light around the dark , cramped , circular space , illuminating a semi-circular bay window , a roof carved with veined arches and mock-mediaeval ivy-leaves , felt-textured with dust , a box-bed with curtains still hanging , showing a dull red under their pall of particles , a fantastically carved black wooden desk , covered with beading and scrolls , and bunches of grapes and pomegranates and lilies , something that might have been either a low chair or a prie-dieu , heaps of cloth , an old trunk , two band boxes , a sudden row of staring tiny white faces , one , two , three , propped against a pillow . |
| 11 | the bypass that end of town would have been perhaps a little bit clearer . |
| 12 | come on because it would have been perhaps the first time I suppose it would n't be a |
| 13 | If she was not , then she must have been almost the only member of Edinburgh political society who managed to know nothing about it — and that in itself would be a comment on her political awareness . |
| 14 | This would have been quite a popular route . |
| 15 | Morse had never seen Mrs Marion Kemp , but from the marriage photograph that hung in the living room he realised that she must once have been quite a vivacious woman : dark , curly hair ; slim , firm figure ; and curiously impudent , puckish eyes . |
| 16 | It would have been quite a sexy story if it was true — lots of money involved . |
| 17 | ‘ The public should be left in no doubt that if it was n't for the police patrol there would have been quite a few fatalities . |
| 18 | sticks , erm , there must have been quite a few schools for girls |
| 19 | It 's , it 's a hefty tome , but , some encyclopaedias run to about you know , fifteen volumes , so it must have been quite an editorial job actually . |
| 20 | He must have been quite an enterprising businessman , my great-grandad , because he ran the butter cart in Baldersdale . |
| 21 | ‘ It would presumably have been only a temporary interruption to your career , ’ he pointed out mercilessly . |
| 22 | I was a little anxious as to payment , which would have been only a few coppers except we had none . |
| 23 | As a secular leader , the king may have had charge of the army , although this may have been only a ceremonial role , since the tablets seem to tell us that there were generals . |
| 24 | Socially , though , he and Karen , who taught part-time at a girls ' school in Headington , were both from a lower-middle-class , comp/tech background , and it may not have been only the fearsome price of property in the North Oxford heartlands which had put them off moving there . |
| 25 | Under Section 37 of Britain 's Mental Health Act , he would have been legally a free man if he had remained at large for another hour . |
| 26 | That 's wh- , must have been virtually the last day when we discovered the Disney shop across the road . |