Example sentences of "[vb mod] have been [verb] [adv prt] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the second day Smith was palpably out lbw but went on the score 42 ; Mujtaba was given out when the ball seemed to hit his boot ; and Gooch , I believe , should have been given out three times in the second innings . |
| 2 | Some of the children must have been taken on subsequent to harrowing , tearful , interviews with mothers with babies in arms , or even the children themselves . |
| 3 | He might have been watching over all of them for a century . |
| 4 | A large proportion had substantial additionality , although some projects could have been supported by other than public-sector funds , bearing in mind that UDG is supposed to be a last-resort lender . |
| 5 | I was turning to people I did n't know that well and confiding in them , and I could have been led down any garden path . |
| 6 | You realize they 'd have been kicking out second helpings . |
| 7 | The outcome would have been to open up 14 million hectares of rainforest , so that Cameroon could achieve the TFAP 's target of becoming ‘ the most important African exporter [ of timber ] from the start of the twenty-first century . ’ |
| 8 | People will have been queueing up this morning to buy these stamps . |
| 9 | Over the past week you have been walking away a minimum of 300 calories a day during your walk , and your increased metabolic rate will have been burning up another few hundred calories when you have finished walking . |