Example sentences of "[vb infin] been [verb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I see I 've been slipping up a bit . ’ |
| 2 | It 's just as well Paul did n't go with him , cos Paul would 've been singled out as well . |
| 3 | In the past it might 've been written off as artwank . |
| 4 | i i i in a sense it is a , it is a shift to the left because under the May the fourth directive erm rich peasants in particular would 've been left out of it altogether and there would still be some landlords who were , who would maintain their property but , but now he 's shifted to the left and this , this does represent a further attack on landlords cos , cos everybody comes down to the same level . |
| 5 | And as I say as I say I do n't ken how long it had been there but that see that likely about the same time as the as the mill was heightened and er the kiln would 've been putting on . |
| 6 | So Madam I 'm asking you to say that these circumstances , this is the sort of case that should never have come before the court , it should 've been sorted out between the parties themselves , with the aid of their solicitors , and that it 's only the overreaction of the police in this particular circumstance that brings him before the court here . |
| 7 | ‘ I see you 've been checking up on me . ’ |
| 8 | I just love the way that kid must 've been standing out there for what , fifteen minutes ? |
| 9 | You know without the women 's support group especially and without other support you know , we would 've been starved back to work . |
| 10 | The money , £108,000 , would 've been paid out from a mortgage protection policy Stroud and Mr Stokle had taken out when they bought a bungalow together . |
| 11 | They must have been filled in at the bank either by Mr Hatton himself or else by the cashier who was attending to him . ’ |
| 12 | However , it seems unlikely that the mare basins could each have been filled in one outpouring . |
| 13 | you could see it like , er but it could easily have been filled in with some wood and nobody would know it was there , yeah |
| 14 | It was just as well Kenneth 's phone was n't engaged because , presumably , if he 'd been chatting to John Major about the situation in the Middle East , or talking to David Mellor about fun , poor old Johan would have been chucked out of the country . |
| 15 | Darryl , also 32 , who lost the toes on his left foot , said : ‘ I shudder to think what else might have been cut off . ’ |
| 16 | Rennenkampf now had no option but to order First Army to retreat eastward and , but for two factors , his entire force might yet have been cut off . |
| 17 | It could have been cut back hugely , and told to concentrate just on defending troops in the field . |
| 18 | If this was coppicing , it had been somewhat fierce and the trees would have been cut back to soil level . |
| 19 | Many believe that Mr Kinnock 's heart may have been cut out and stamped on but that it beats anew in Mr Brown , and for this reason alone the party leader is credited with wanting the 41-year old Scot to succeed him in the event of disaster . |
| 20 | He might have been cut out of cardboard , she thought , as she led him across the hall and into the dining -room , where she introduced him to Susan . |
| 21 | There was a deep , thick blood from the old oaks , still trickling slowly out here and there , as if the Trees might not have been cut down so very long since , or — and this was much worse — as if there were still vestiges of life in them . |
| 22 | Pigs may have spent some time with the swineherd in the distant woodland , but part of the wood would have been cropped for fuel , poles , wood for repairs to buildings , fences , implements and so on , while a few trees may have been cut down for constructional work on the bridge over the Yeo or to build a new house . |
| 23 | Well there would be , yes , I would imagine or if they certainly would , they would of been in the past , they may have been cut down , but that would indicate to me that there were probably trees |
| 24 | That , that could have been , that could have been cut down . |
| 25 | I 'll give you one story that you may not think could have been cut down , but , the headline read , ‘ War Declared ’ . |
| 26 | I certainly would n't have been invited back to the Parsons ' , but I could have lived with that . |
| 27 | ‘ I thought it might have been cleared up by now … |
| 28 | The hon. Member for Dagenham must have been speaking out of turn at that time ; he has certainly been nobbled since . |
| 29 | I think I must have been stumbling round . |
| 30 | In treating such a philosophical topic , the underlying principles should have been expanded on , rather than just being described . |