Example sentences of "[adv] have been [verb] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A third , who seemed prematurely to have been celebrating Sunderland 's success , planted a spontaneous kiss on his cheek . |
| 2 | With a fit beginner and an obviously hard snow surface , an accomplished racer should sure have been teaching Annabel to use the ski edges throughout the turn . |
| 3 | Her most unusual assignment so far has been interviewing Daniel Ortega at a dinner party , Sandinista style , where she drank rum with the bodyguards and was persuaded to dance with Ortega . |
| 4 | It 's much like a DYPP , and should really have been called DXPP , but someone came up with the name Tech-Tech first ( on the other hand , just try to pronounce DXPP ! ) . |
| 5 | Aldous Huxley may well have been echoing Gandhi when he maintained that the means whereby we attain something are as important as the end if not more important . |
| 6 | Ressentiment is a more precise word ; he may well have been blaming God in these developing years for the loss he felt — for the anguish it gave not only to himself but also that witnessed by him in his mother and sister . |
| 7 | ( In this respect , Straw Dogs could almost have been called John and Mary in Cornwall . ) |
| 8 | We sailed across the Aegean to Izmir , which till recently had been called Smyrna ; and the captain told me how , a few years earlier , as he entered the port , his ship had nosed her way through the floating corpses of Greeks massacred by the Turks . |