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Example sentences of "and [pron] [vb mod] [verb] been [verb] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	One false turn and I would have been lost among boulders of ice and snow , rocks and fallen trees .
2	If he had , my furniture would have been out on the street by now and Springsteen and I would have been queuing down the night shelter .
3	‘ I 'm sure she would have died without the kiss of life and I would have been devastated to lose her .
4	Luckily my mother was out of the room at the time , or Dawn and I might have been sent to our room for giving her precious cat a heart attack .
5	I had once taken hold of a piece of rock , and was about to trust my whole weight upon , it , when it loosened from its bed , and I should have been sent headlong to the bottom had I not instinctively snatched hold of a tuft of grass , which grew close by it , and was so firm as to save me .
6	At half past three Kaptan and I should have been reading from one of the textbooks but , in fact , I was lying in the Colonel 's hammock while Kaptan , with his inexhaustible energy , was trying to catch frogs .
7	In fiction , he thought , Alice and I should have been tormented by our joint knowledge , distrustful , guilt-ridden , unable to live apart yet miserable together .
8	No and we 'd got three young girls , new , new girls and I saw those and I must have been thinking about Mandy and the car because they said something about oh when we leave we 're all going on a picnic to and I think it was Kettering or quite some time aw some
9	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 .
10	‘ I was in the sitting room and I could have been killed if they had come through my side , ’ she said .
11	I am happy to welcome that investment , and I imagine that it owes much to the climate and environment that the Government have created and which might have been threatened by an alternative settlement at Maastricht such as the Opposition would have supported and implemented if they were ever elected .
12	Mr has low back pain , sometimes with left sided sciatica , which he 's suffered from since the twenty second of June nineteen eighty eight and which may have been exacerbated by lifting the plaintiff .
13	It remains unclear whether the types of vessel so commonly found in cremation cemeteries were also used domestically ; the evidence of the settlement of West Stow where stamped vessels of a type found in cremation cemeteries were present amongst other rubbish and which may have been made there , is ambiguous .
14	This type of analysis can be carried out for the whole country showing that there are a number of areas which are prominent in the consumption of the imported goods and which may have been developing centres of political and economic power ( Huggett forthcoming ) .
15	Compartmentation of the interior means that the building is experienced in a new way — details which were once distant ( and which may have been executed in the knowledge that they would not be viewed at close hand ) are seen in ‘ close-up ’ for the first time and in relation to much smaller and more intimate spaces ( Plate 20 ) .
16	When these accounts are compared with amounts which should have been received and which should have been paid ( as shown in the budget ) much vital information for a public sector organization is shown .
17	In certain cases , the accountants prepare the accounts of the company or business on predetermined bases or principles , which may be quite complex , and which will have been set out in the sale and purchase agreement .
18	Such an " increment count and jump " instruction specifies an accumulator , index register , or store location whose contents are to be used as a loop counter ( and which will have been initialized by another instruction ) .
19	Looking around Old Town Square , it is a remarkable survival for a capital which was rich in the 19C and which could have been rebuilt then .
20	th you er I mean if it were very heavy you 'd almost sort of be prepared for it to go , but you know when you 're s s standing with a , something quite light , and you might have been standing with it a little while in your hand , and then suddenly the hand goes and ca n't you see that 's ve that 's very upsetting , it makes you not very confident .
21	I had gone too far and experienced too much , I needed to slow down , to get back to the small things , the practical things , to measuring and cutting and fixing , and it was with relief that I noticed that daylight had begun to invade the room , I kept quite still , I held the glass firmly in my gaze , gradually the elements already worked on began to emerge , some more clearly than others , some in outline only and some only when they impeded the free flow of light through the glass , until the sun came up and was reflected back from the windows of the house opposite and I could sit and look at the glass and think back through the work and the mistakes and the few successes , and sense again with that sickening feeling in the pit of the stomach that the whole of the right hand side of the lower panel was still a mess , nothing there had been resolved , but then I drew back from that , though it kept trying to pull me back to itself , and concentrated on what was beginning to work , on the left hand areas both top and bottom and on the elegance of the frame and the joy of seeing the bare walls and the wainscoting appear through the empty areas , and as I moved round so different parts of the room appeared and the relation of the surface of the glass to what lay behind changed , precision and fluidity , precision and fluidity , he wrote , choice and chance , not choice alone and chance alone but the two together , that is why delay , not stoppage and not flow but delay , delay in glass , he wrote , as when the plane is late and you should have been gone , have already arrived perhaps , but you are still there , or the sprinter beats the gun and the whole field is called back , the race could have been over but it has not yet started .
22	and what they did , and you were there , and you must 've been listening , what they did , percent for people , they moved it up to Policy and Resources , Policy and Resources percent for people came around , Councillor spoke .
23	well I 've given many , many different answers here , I could have been here all day , giving you just between point five and point six , and you 'd have been giving one as the answer every time .
24	Livingstone 's attacks on Europe reflect a 1970s provincial prejudice and populist demagogy unworthy of a politician who hoped to offer himself as Labour leader ( and who should have been allowed to run ) .
25	Our review of the surveillance programme had three distinct goals : ( a ) to obtain full follow up of all patients who had participated at any time in the surveillance programme ; ( b ) to identify any other patients , who attended the department over this time and who should have been recruited into the surveillance programme ; and ( c ) to identify all cases of colonic carcinoma occurring in association with ulcerative colitis presenting to the department over this period .
26	who was sitting in the audience who is a nurse and er would 've known and she would 've been trying to get in and say this is not true .
27	Supper was a triumph of the sort Mrs Crump very rarely experienced and she would have been hurt had anyone pointed out that Mr Crump 's fine and very expensive claret which flowed like spring water was something to do with that success .
28	Perhaps there had been a moment where Lucy 's guard had been down and she might have been diverted , but the moment had now passed .
29	The whole glass and she 'd have been climbing the walls — just how you like — ’
30	Unfortunately the government is assuming that 's all we are doing so they 're cutting housing subsidy accordingly and we would have been left with no choice , that 's all there is to be said on the matter .