Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] been [noun prp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His rounds took him to most parts of the building and Rain was eagerly accepting that it must have been Stan on the second floor making her jumpy when he mentioned that since the murder he did not go into MacQuillan 's room or those next to it because the police were usually there . |
| 2 | He did n't get back until … on , it must have been Tuesday of the following week . ’ |
| 3 | It could have been Adam on your mind , I suppose , but I 'm beginning to think that there 's a little more to it than that . ’ |
| 4 | This may have been Painswick near Stroud , which has a long-standing tradition of clipping , as he was in Gloucestershire at one time . |
| 5 | But not to have mentioned the subject at all , to leave a void which demanded to be filled — that , it seemed to me , would have been Hamlet without the prince ( or , more accurately , Queen Mother ) . |