Example sentences of "[vb infin] been [verb] [pers pn] [prep] the " 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 | He might have been receiving her in the best parlour on a Sunday afternoon . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | I may have been approaching it from the wrong angle . |
| 7 | ‘ The best chance would have been to grab her on the way in , ’ the man said . |
| 8 | The alternator , which should have been recharging it during the flight , for some reason was n't . |
| 9 | The alternator , which should have been recharging it during the flight , for some reason was n't . |
| 10 | He might have been asking her about the traffic on the way in from the airport . |
| 11 | perhaps the Company 's lack of comment on its own future , which must increasingly have been worrying them at the turn of the century . |
| 12 | 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 . |