Example sentences of "[pron] [vb mod] [verb] been [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The programmers who designed them may have been any of these things , but that is irrelevant . |
| 2 | Among them must have been many new men pushing up from below . |
| 3 | And this was cracked fracture from osteoporosis now , if I had been getting H R T at that time I might have been less disfigured . |
| 4 | I could have been any little old lady waiting for a relative to arrive from Holland . |
| 5 | ‘ I have thought about whether I could have been another of his victims . |
| 6 | I mean I I 'd having been these comments and yes there are a couple of extra points put in there I think that that 's fine . |
| 7 | I 'd be su I would 've been such a wreck last night if that , if Foxy had done that to me . |
| 8 | Well I know I know is the only one that realised I would 've been more shocked if had yeah I would have been out on the pavement here whistling with a banjo whistling Dixie there you are that one no not yet no . |
| 9 | Emma had mounted the first step of the stairs and she was unwinding her scarf when she turned and looked down on her mother , saying , ‘ I would have been many things if I had been brought up in peace . ’ |
| 10 | In movements which could have been those of a somnambulist Kersey had retrieved his cigarettes and was placing one between his lips while feeling in his pockets for a lighter . |
| 11 | obviously erm I 've ju all I 've got down here is local newspaper advertising five years which would have been enough er |
| 12 | Coming up , which would have been more serious , maybe , cos it meant there might have been a break somewhere or |
| 13 | The exception was Helga , a Euro-slut from Cologne who should have been several grades higher but kept deliberately failing the aptitude tests so as to be with Massimo . |
| 14 | ‘ To the pigs with the slops , where you should have been this mornin' , ’ replied his wife . |
| 15 | She might have been any age between thirty and sixty and Wexford set the lower limit so low only because of her young children . |
| 16 | Smiles came from within , they were n't just a facial movement , and she stared at him assessingly as she wondered how she could have been such a fool . |
| 17 | She could have been any girl in any photograph . |
| 18 | She could have been any age , for though her face was weathered by the sun , no wrinkles marred her face . |
| 19 | Melanie wondered how old she was but there was no way of telling ; she could have been any age between twenty-five and forty . |
| 20 | In a flash a sniper , who could have been any gun happy soul anywhere , had killed . |
| 21 | Just as , er just as well you did n't go out because erm you could have been half way out there in the plane or whate when erm |
| 22 | She would have been some forty minutes late , and as she had no intention of ringing home to leave a message , Parr would be in a quandary . |
| 23 | The room itself would have been enough to efface any human material less striking than Clelia 's mother , and it did indeed more or less totally efface the unobtrusive Martin , who sat quietly dissociated , perched on the edge of a gilt-framed armchair , looking as though he did not quite mean to be there . |
| 24 | Einstein 's comment was , one would have been enough and as usual of course , Einstein was right . |
| 25 | For example , there may have been little point in devising an ‘ inner area ’ and allocating resources to it . |
| 26 | There may have been little or no discussion of these issues , even among the higher clerics and ecclesiastical advisers , but Innocent was too polished a performer not to realize the public relations advantages of pronouncement in a general council . |
| 27 | Elsewhere , there may have been more support . |
| 28 | In recent years there may have been more wealth and consumer goods around but people have seemed cynical , weary , amoral … |
| 29 | There may have been another factor that induced these creatures to leave the ground . |
| 30 | Then , wryly : ‘ There may have been another reason ; even as a young man I was a staid sort of chap and they were a bit wild at times . |