Example sentences of "and he [vb mod] [verb] been [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They say he should have waited around like a good boy , taken a few duff , even Duff fights , and he would have been rewarded in due course by boxing 's power brokers . |
| 2 | He put them in central midfield — and he would have been rewarded with a vital home win but for Gary Speed 's late equaliser . |
| 3 | ‘ Another smile like the one you were giving him and he would have been fastening that ribbon himself . |
| 4 | He says a few inches either way and he would have been killed . |
| 5 | One error and he would have been torn loose and hurled overboard to be smothered by the driving spray . |
| 6 | He could have written , ‘ Every time I walk through London I realise how chained down everybody is , how people make one another suffer , how no one is free from corruption ’ — and he would have been greeted with our ‘ Yes , so you think that . |
| 7 | A millisecond before and he would have been trapped . |
| 8 | Mrs Smith 's family say he 'd written a letter threatening her and he should have been detained . |
| 9 | That was also rough play and he should have been punished sternly . |
| 10 | The scent of human food was very strong in the Gruncher 's nostrils , and he must have been thinking that so long as he kept going flat out , he would catch his meal in the end . |
| 11 | And he must have been testin' in part fur flight refuellin' because Rodriguez says in his book he was refuelled somewhere over the Bellingshausen Sea , which is a long way west of the area where Sunderby lost his life . ’ |
| 12 | Thus , a director must account to the company for any commissions he receives on company contracts , because he receives them only by virtue of his position as a director , and he could have been induced to encourage the company to enter into a contract which is not in its best interest . |