Example sentences of "[pers pn] [modal v] [verb] been [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | According to Eadmer there were over sixty in about 1080 , and a high proportion of them must have been Englishmen of the old foundation . |
| 2 | If she could have been part of a warm , loving family , it was what she would have liked most of all . |
| 3 | If any one of us had been touching a wall above ground we 'd have been part of the bloody architecture by now . ’ |
| 4 | Or they may have been hunters after larger prey , in which case when appendages are eventually discovered they may prove to have adaptations for grasping and manipulating larger food . |
| 5 | Fight as they did to keep the canoe on course they were driven westward of Castiglione ( near Sidi Ferruch ) when they should have been east of this port . |
| 6 | They could have been members of the House of Atreus . |
| 7 | It is extremely probable that nine days later they would have been part of the 1000 Bomber Raid on Cologne . |
| 8 | Isidore of Seville ( d. 636 ) summed it all up thus : ‘ many who bear the attacks of the adversary and resist the desires of the flesh are martyrs , even in the time of peace , in virtue of this self-immolation to God in their heart : they would have been martyrs in the time of the persecutions ’ . |
| 9 | The life review can provide a means of re-establishing and confirming individual involvement with current reality , and linking their past work and efforts with the social change that has occurred , for in a variety of subtle ways they will have been part of the changes and developments that they are witnessing . |
| 10 | This claim has never been proved and it may have been part of the Securitate 's scare tactics . |
| 11 | I never once saw her drunk and think it may have been water in the evenings too , half the time . |
| 12 | The biographer speculated that it may have been failure in his alchemical experiments that led to this breakdown . |
| 13 | James Tyrell had evidently committed himself to the Yorkists by 1471 , when he was knighted at Tewkesbury , and it may have been links with the crown which eased his passage into Gloucester 's service . |
| 14 | James Tyrell had evidently committed himself to the Yorkists by 1471 , when he was knighted at Tewkesbury , and it may have been links with the crown which eased his passage into Gloucester 's service . |
| 15 | As the team 's player/manager he may have been man of the match but even our ebullient was eclipsed by . |
| 16 | As I understand matters , if planning consent was issued for Phase 1 , Service Inns , it ought to have been subject to at least one , if not two , Section 50 Agreements , as well as subject to the site investigation you referred to . |
| 17 | ‘ It should have been Bells with the number of ringers who 've been playing ’ . |
| 18 | It must have been reference for Jenny to be |
| 19 | Yeah , I said yeah I am , I said I 'm gon na drive up and see , so we got in , went up to Wendy 's , you could n't see through the door Pen , Penny and Kev said well we 'll drive round as well , I said well she 's had us up and down , cos one minute she was quite strong then the next she could n't cope , I said Wendy all I want you to ever know is that I 'm there , if ever you want me phone me , I do n't care whether it 's middle of the night , middle of the morning or whatever , so she says alright , anyway Penny went up , she said she could n't see anything she thinks she 's gone a bed and then me and Rudy went up , it must have been quarter to one cos I took him for a little walk and I got out the car and walked round the back and then , I could see her curtains were open and I could see a light on , so I went round the front and I shouted through the letter box , Wen it 's only me I 've come to wish you a happy new year , let's hope next year will be better than this one and she come to the door and she was broken hearted |
| 20 | His rounds took him to most parts of the building and Rain was eagerly accepting that it must have been Stan on the second floor making her jumpy when he mentioned that since the murder he did not go into MacQuillan 's room or those next to it because the police were usually there . |
| 21 | It must have been hell for you . |
| 22 | It must have been murder for our mum . ’ |
| 23 | He did n't get back until … on , it must have been Tuesday of the following week . ’ |
| 24 | Two trained and experienced businessmen in one landscaping company is unusual , and Peter suspects it might have been part of the reason for success . |
| 25 | ‘ It might have been part of the equipment those scientists dropped into the sea when they were here , ’ he suggested . |
| 26 | As Hannah moves fluently along her journey into the past , what emerges most strongly to the listener is a sense of privilege — that here is a survivor of a lost way of life which was so innocent and simple , so materially deprived , yet spiritually rich , that it might have been part of another civilization altogether , surviving from an earlier century , perhaps . |
| 27 | Sometimes it doesn especially if it 's just one thing outside there , like it might have been sort of a a three X or |
| 28 | On this point , the head considers the project-inspired developments to have " taken off " at a pace which he had never envisaged : I think it 's been the instigator for a lot of cross-curriculum things which I did n't really anticipate ; I thought it might have been instigator for the sort of subject-based problems that would either stimulate something in the subject or the subject could actually move to the library and it 's obviously worked faster on the cross-curriculum aspect . |
| 29 | And still without needing to turn my head , but looking straight to the front , and walking at the same even pace along the path , I was conscious of a man perched motionless on the top bar of the gate , one leg over , so still that he might have been part of the gate itself . |
| 30 | It could have been Adam on your mind , I suppose , but I 'm beginning to think that there 's a little more to it than that . ’ |