Example sentences of "[verb] [been] [adv] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 31 | I 'd been away after that before I came to the electricity works here . |
| 32 | He 'd had himself painted and sculptured again and again , and he 'd been there for all the world to see . |
| 33 | He 'd been there for some time . |
| 34 | I mean , you were n't even sure she 'd been there at all . ’ |
| 35 | Forty eight and and presumably many of the people who are perhaps seventy drawing pensions , they may not have even paid in thirty years themselves , I mean they may be many of them may not have been around for that period of time . |
| 36 | But the little tousle-headed , dirty , tanned , bold toddler that was me might well have been up to some sort of mischief involving the beast . |
| 37 | Normally , she would have been up for several hours and written a couple of thousand words . |
| 38 | Carrie suddenly said , ‘ Your mum and I were worried about you , Seb , but all my dad could keep saying was , ‘ It 's a good job I managed to reach you when I did , or you 'd have been up at that farmhouse for another week . ’ ’ |
| 39 | If the SRs had achieved power , ‘ their actions would have been exactly like those of the Bolshevik Party . ’ |
| 40 | ‘ The fuzz would have been on to that straight away . |
| 41 | Wiping them might have been enough for most people — but not for somebody who was trying to do card tricks . ’ |
| 42 | What about livestock would they have been in at that time of year ? |
| 43 | Occasionally it is explained that they had already died — and given the still short life-expectancy of the period this must have been so in many cases . |
| 44 | That might have been so in this nation , but it was not the case throughout the empire . |
| 45 | By now you should have been out on several practice walks and determined your state of fitness . |
| 46 | I must n't have been out of that office half an hour and I 'd , she 'd rung here and left a message to say I could go on it . |
| 47 | Dad normally would n't have been out in such madness , but there he was , this grey-haired man just over five feet tall , going into a phone-box when we had a working telephone in our hall . |
| 48 | The Labour government 's priority from 1964 onwards was the servicing of the economy in response to demands made on them by capital ; in so far as working-class girls could have contributed to this , it would have been only in those unskilled jobs for which greater or better education was not required . |
| 49 | Well done you and a very , very special thanks to the Princess Royal , without whose leadership it would not have been possibly at all . |
| 50 | The floor of these forests was , at best , only sparsely vegetated and great areas may have been entirely without any living leaves . |
| 51 | I gather there was a defender on the goal line so Strachan could n't have been offside at all . |
| 52 | Pumpido had to make two saves while neither of the Italians need have been there at all . |
| 53 | At the very genesis of all feeling and awareness one thought held sway which should not really have been there at all : that to be grown-up , to be a man , meant losing a great part of me . |
| 54 | The first thing that strikes me is that my aunt — an almost complete stranger as far as I was concerned — should have been there at all , within the family circle where no friend or neighbour was allowed , and thus in a privileged position to make personal remarks of the type which would not have been tolerated from any other quarter . |
| 55 | But you had to remember the circumstances they were there under — they should never have been there at all . |
| 56 | On 30 June Colonel Wilkinson was at his desk catching up on policy matters after having been away for several days visiting units in the Liverpool area and attending an Army Catering Corps Promotion Selection Board held at Exeter . |
| 57 | He 's supposed to have been there at half past nine ! |
| 58 | But , if it had been either of these , how would they get into the Tower , mysteriously ring a tocsin bell and then arrange for Mowbray 's fall ? |
| 59 | Harriet Tremayne , her mother , had been strongly against this , but Tom , her husband , a charming , indolent and indulgent man , had argued , with a certain degree of logic , that ‘ the girl had to do some kind of war work ’ and that it was better for her ‘ to do something she had set her heart on ’ . |
| 60 | Earlier in the month I had been strongly against any idea of coalition … |