Example sentences of "[vb infin] been [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | WHILE we are about it , I have been told of another effect that , for heaven 's sake , could not have been stumbled on by Francis Bacon . |
| 2 | As the Young King wavered between the three alternatives of remaining dutifully at his father 's side , going to Jerusalem , or marching into Aquitaine , he was certainly tempted by messages from the rebels offering to recognize him as their Duke , but he may also have been egged on by Geoffrey of Brittany . |
| 3 | If I had n't been pregnant I would have been sent back to Bullwood , but they have n't got a mother and baby unit there , though in those days Styal was only for women over twenty-one , apart from the pregnant borstal girls . |
| 4 | The audience of willing females had shouted the answer so loudly that it could probably have been heard back in Monte Samana . |
| 5 | Now Millns is established as one of the most feared and effective fast bowlers on the county circuit , and he might well have been called up for England 's final Test at The Oval but for injury . |
| 6 | It is , however , a much better thing for the Lions that England 's formerly mighty but now creaking pack should have been found out at Lansdowne Road rather than in the Land of the Long White Cloud . |
| 7 | One might well have imagined that an exhibition such as the one recently at the Schirn Kunsthalle in Frankfurt ( and now at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam ) , dealing with the Russian Avant-garde , could have been put on in Leipzig , Dresden or at least East Berlin with the necessary detachment of course . |
| 8 | Oh , and sixteen tons of alum that must have been left over from Phocoea . ’ |
| 9 | Those men , balding men with families , would have written their reports with a knowing smile , omitting anything too indelicate , and the contents would have been passed on to Urquhart 's boss , and then probably on to Spittals . |
| 10 | The dog in it , I think , may have been taken over from Hydra . |
| 11 | How could she ever have been taken in by Nigel Westwood ? |
| 12 | Greatly as I admire both the man and his work , I consider Max Beerbohm a dangerous influence — just how dangerous one must perhaps have been brought up in England to know . |
| 13 | Historians usually refer to him as a Monmouthshire man ; his family connections and his early employment as a schoolteacher at Talgarth suggest that he could have been brought up in Breconshire , where , in 1737 , he was converted by Howel Harris [ q.v . ] . |