Example sentences of "[vb mod] have been [prep] [indef pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was plain to Lugh , as it should have been to everyone else , that Fergus — and whoever he took with him — was going to get into severe difficulties in the Far Future . |
| 2 | You must have been with someone else . ’ |
| 3 | the way Val talks I think I must have been at something else . |
| 4 | I try now to remember what that outpouring of words was about , it must have been about something . |
| 5 | Nick Day , blinking blood , received a push that could have been for anybody , and went onto his knees . |
| 6 | ‘ It could have been about anyone . |
| 7 | If the message could have been from someone you care for , then where 's the harm in it ? |
| 8 | But then she remembered Tony , and how grateful she would have been to anyone who had had the courage to give her a hint of his real nature … |
| 9 | He might not even be there and the whole thing would have been for nothing and all he would have got out of it would have been kicks . |
| 10 | Had she been so , then last night 's work would have been for naught . |
| 11 | It would have been with someone butch , a Guardsman or a man on a building site . |
| 12 | It would have been like something out of the Keystone Cops . |
| 13 | ‘ If we ca n't get these orders out on time , all the effort we 've put in will have been for nothing . |
| 14 | If she decides to go straight home all this will have been for nothing . ’ |
| 15 | But if no convincing reason for the station can be found , and if the project will no longer create so many jobs , then all the effort will have been for naught . |