Example sentences of "[vb mod] have [been] [adv] [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The thing is should have been nearly seventy five hundred . |
| 2 | He must have been pretty close all the time . |
| 3 | She said well it must have been just those two little bits . |
| 4 | It must have been about nineteen thirty-seven or eight . |
| 5 | Non-existent until about I should n't think there was an a bus did come to the bottom of Road , I ca n't remember what was , it must have been about nineteen twenty I suppose something like that , it used to go to the bottom of Road and turn round there , but I never er my mother always used to say you 'd ruin the trade , the trade down well I do n't believe it did really er now I think the lack of transport now you 've hit something there , lack of transport there encouraged people to shop in Green rather to go down the town cos you could get anything off Green you know , you just think you 'd ju you , you smiled about the er butcher 's shops , the grocer 's shops , the cake shops , you could get the gents , you could get anything on Green the ironmonger shop , you need n't go anywhere else but , when they started transport er yes I think the buses had quite a bit gradually cos things that , you do n't think get things happening in this country overnight I mean , they grow on you do n't they ? |
| 6 | She said it was br it was , I did n't think it was but it wa it was really good fun and also I was going out with Carl at the time and so , you know , in our big like little group big little group , our big group , that was a bit of a erm contradiction , erm in our big group and erm we knew masses of people and there were lots of there and there were lots of Felixstowe people there and it was just a really good laugh and erm Right Said Fred were there and some other sort of ravey group , ca n't remember what now and then , no some techno group , and then erm so we all thought oh let's go for this , let's go , la this time last year we thought oh well let's go over to this one for a joke , you know , for old time 's sake let's just go along and have a joke and we went and it was full of erm like they were all about fourteen , I suppose when we went we were all fourteen too but last year well most of my friends are sort of you know sixteen erm we went and it was n't , it was n't , it was n't full at all and the place is huge and it says , it says on the thing , you know , two thousand people go and there must have been about four hundred at the most and it was really , and I , also I ha I was ill that day and it was really shit so if they said it was brilliant last year it probably was n't the stockings because it was , nobody I met said it was , and also yeah the stockings and the feathers were put on the same day and there 's competition between the two companies does stocking and I 've forgotten what feathers is , there 's competition and so lots of people went to the feathers instead and the feathers had like too many people and the stockings had too lit too few . |
| 7 | It must have been about 9.30 one evening when the cell hatch opened and they said , ‘ Mills , you 've got bail . |
| 8 | Must have been about twenty one . |
| 9 | All of a sudden there 's the snow and the ice and when we pulled into the village they got this fl flat roof some of the buildings and the snow must have been about ten twelve feet deep on top of the roofs where they cut a path through through to get to the village . |
| 10 | And there must have been about ten thousand there last time . |
| 11 | Erm well we put two cats through as well so erm I think it all in all with the flights out and the flights back and the quarantine it must have been about three thousand pounds . |
| 12 | The extra pound a day for their film work did little to compensate for their tiredness which surely must have been as much due to under-nourishment as overwork . |
| 13 | That 's not bad at all cos you thought it might 've been about nine hundred with them other two did n't you ? |
| 14 | And I 've thought about buying a , a me erm a metal detector and going up and going over the where the kirkyard was because when there were was here that was in about sixteen oh it might have been about sixteen sixty or sixteen eighty . |
| 15 | Erm that might have been as well another reason for selling to friends , erm because most of the stuff we bought anyway was new so that does n't really come into it . |
| 16 | Nicola Field , once a member of the first lesbian and gay production group , Converse Pictures , now working as a freelance researcher , has been able to maintain her focus on sexuality and lesbian and gay politics in a way that might have been more difficult five or ten years ago . |
| 17 | Could have been just nothing-some little schoolboy sin . |
| 18 | As instability of h is extremely common , it is remarkable that careful scholars could have been so much aware of this type of evidence , but could nevertheless have rejected it . |
| 19 | There could have been so much important material in what has been called " The Domesday Book of the Highlands and Islands . " |
| 20 | There could have been so much important material in what has been called " The Domesday Book of the Highlands and Islands . " |
| 21 | This may have been as much due to tradition as to limited supplies or tin . |
| 22 | erm I recall that would have been probably nineteen eighty nine |
| 23 | She had been about to collude with Stan in the face of all her good resolutions , and there would have been yet another indelible stain on her spirit which , she suspected , were it available to her , she would not care to put unwashed in her underwear drawer . |
| 24 | She estimated what the size of the labour force in the United States would have been in 1960 by making two assumptions : ( a ) if death rates had not declined since 1900 , the labour force would have been over 13 million less in 1960 ; ( b ) if death rates had declined from 1900–1920 but remained the same level after that , the labour force would have been 6 million smaller in 1960 . |
| 25 | This was the traditional mooring place for dahabeeyahs and in the old days , before Mr Cook had come with his steamers , there would have been over two hundred of them nudging the bank . |
| 26 | ‘ He 's very active and would have been pretty fit first time out . |
| 27 | But what I should have done was measured that , that would have been about forty nine centimetres , this 'd be out maybe |
| 28 | The change in net debt , er worth referring worth mentioning minus three point three million that much worse would have been significantly lower thirty five million or so lower if we 'd had the same year end exchange rate as we did in nineteen ninety one . |
| 29 | Similarly , the need to generate foreign currency has stimulated tourism in regions that would have been virtually inaccessible 15 years ago . |
| 30 | I was there If I 'd have been there to July , that year that I moved there , I would have been there twenty five years , on that road . |