Example sentences of "[vb infin] [be] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because , although it 's before nine erm , the next morning erm you 're actually giving them now more lead time , you 've given them another day because an , sometime tomorrow you know , if it gets there at two o'clock and it 's off-loading in in in at the bay and someone checks that it 's been received and then someone makes a phone call to tell them it 's there , and then they 're doing something else , and then they come down and have a look at it , how many boxes do you think are sitting on loading bays that do n't get looked at for a day or two , or three , or four , five when they 've had a next day service ? |
| 2 | ‘ Ted would 've been lost without me , ’ he boasted . |
| 3 | What Mr Sutherland can 've been thinking of , I do n't know . |
| 4 | ‘ I think it must 've been hit by a car , ’ he said . |
| 5 | Well you see they 've been brainwashed to that sort of music so they 're bound to , bound to like it . |
| 6 | I hear you 've been looking at Eggle guitars … |
| 7 | The Beach-heads hear they 've been cursed by a Swells SOTW |
| 8 | you know so erm so some er a lot more should 've been done about actually getting , even if it was just well I 'm in that area , I 'm in the area on such and such a day anyway so I can call in to see you . |
| 9 | A little bit I think that he was just concerned that perhaps there might 've been other people who might 've wanted to come and if people had rung up and you had had a waiting list something could 've been done about it |
| 10 | ‘ I hear you 've been talking to my Hilda and young Ralph . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ I hear you 've been talking to our friends in Manila , ’ he says , chattily , as though the difference in our rank means nothing to him . |
| 12 | No but it must 've been talking about youngsters having cars |
| 13 | But they could 've been talking about something personal and we would 've heard everything they said . |
| 14 | Erm the issue is is that potentially you could be goi we could 've been going for four point three extra people and we probably wo n't do that . |
| 15 | The slow-crawl music they produced might 've been linked with hardcore , but it was really ‘ the end of rock , the dying throes ’ . |
| 16 | You see I 've been entrusted with the task of getting him safely back to the Reich and I 've little more than three weeks to do it in . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ I can see I 've been displaced in Leo 's affections . ’ |
| 18 | On several occasions the ‘ correct ’ response was not the obvious one , so perhaps a wider variety of inputs could 've been catered for . |
| 19 | I do n't think we would 've been standing outside the gates . |
| 20 | ‘ You had them all the time — you trailed me round — you bloody filthy lying bastard — you poked my head into every shit-bin in Bristol — you led me up hill and down dale till my feet were dropping off — you made me steal some people 's boat — I could 've been got by the police — I might be festering in jail now — handcuffed — criminal — you do n't care , you 're criminal anyway — I would n't be surprised if you 'd murdered half a dozen innocent people and cut them up and kept their pieces stashed away in the hole where you 've been hiding my bag and my things and my money and my dreams … ’ |
| 21 | And there 's Master Tristram pretending he 's not listening to his father , who might 've been sitting in the Fowey stocks by now if it was n't for that same father 's efforts . " |
| 22 | I know but you could 've been fetched from Grand Canaries . |
| 23 | See I 've been coming for years with mouth ulcers . |
| 24 | She 'd 've been lying on Spanish beaches with her eyes tight shut knowing that every Spanish boy who passed would fancy her . |
| 25 | The crowd seemed to be getting a little impatient just before the goal ( as I 'm sure we all were listening to it on the radio ) but can you imagine what the scum crowd would ahve been doing to their team if they had n't scored within twenty minutes ? |
| 26 | A dividend is usually paid as a percentage of the consolidated profits of Newco , but a number of points require consideration in determining how " profit " should be interpreted : ( i ) should the dividend be based on pre- or post-tax profits ( ii ) should the calculation of profit take into account any transfer or proposed transfer to reserves or to general provisions ? ( iii ) should profit include pre- or post-extraordinary items ? ( iv ) how should goodwill be treated ? ( v ) should directors ' emoluments in excess of an amount agreed with the investors be added back ? ( vi ) should profit be defined before payment or the provision for payment of dividends ? |
| 27 | In no sense can this market be said to be mature . ’ |
| 28 | The designers were facing the question : - Can the search space be kept within manageable proportions until this disambiguating information is reached , or should one try to find the ‘ narrow ’ point and start from there ? |
| 29 | ‘ You do n't consider being accused of being a ‘ clinging ’ woman a good enough reason ? ’ she hurtled in hotly . |
| 30 | ‘ I would be delighted if you would consider being interviewed for the film . |