Example sentences of "[vb infin] been [adv] [adj] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those who produced classical responses might have been slightly shocked at what you found praiseworthy . |
| 2 | It is also worth speculating on the fate of what must have been a nonplussed Christopher Chryselius , Sir John Pennington must have been thoroughly annoyed at the outcome , too . |
| 3 | Yes , Joe must have been desperately lonely at that time , because he asked us to dinner the following evening at Chez Victor 's , one of his favourite restaurants . |
| 4 | Ashi had no doubt the woman would have been as rapt at his polite charm and elegance as she herself had once been . |
| 5 | And that leads the main question of this issue : would the girls have been as evil at the end ? |
| 6 | JUST a year ago , a journalist would have been as welcome at the opening meet of Prince Charles 's favourite hunt as Saddam Hussein at a Royal garden party . |
| 7 | Stevie Ray must have been really young at the time … |
| 8 | I think it must have been really fashionable at one point . |
| 9 | But perhaps if they had listened to what folk-legend had maintained for thousands of years neurobiologists would not have been so surprised at the learning and memory capacity of the bees . |
| 10 | Chris , Chris , you know my friend , and Chris must have been quite new at this , you know that song that like when the double bass and then |
| 11 | He would have been quite appalled at the class of some of these ‘ friends ’ with city suits unbuttoned and slack ties askew . |
| 12 | Howard would have approved of the improvement in pay and conditions of service and greater emphasis on training but he might have been quite surprised at the eventual outcome of well-meaning initiatives . |
| 13 | Well there were the jobs tha that I mentioned really , production manager or assistant director and now he would have been quite happy I know to have done those , because I remember talking about it you know er and he would have been very good at either of them , but erm er he he did n't get well he was a slightly abrasive man , he he he his erm I I think in a way erm he was a director who could who was not really a very good film director , he he could get things done very quickly and that 's why he worked for bash , bash , bash getting through everything quickly . |
| 14 | When I first saw it , when I was looking at it , I was amazed at these huge great hooks and eyes , and I thought ‘ gosh , they ca n't have been very good at making hooks and eyes if they had to make them so big ’ . |
| 15 | This was not a very positive thing to say because Ralph lost some morale which could have been very dangerous at such an early stage . |
| 16 | I have also learnt that there are other makes of computer — even among those supplied by Dixons — that would have been more suitable at little or no extra cost . |
| 17 | If the commission , which since its inception has been the CIVC 's ComCon ( Commission Consultative ) , required a yardstick on which to base their annual increase or decrease of production limits , then it would have been more rational at the time to term the figure , whether or not it was actually 50 hectolitres per hectare , an average for the region . |
| 18 | Sir Adrian found this work fascinating and would have been perfectly happy at the time to have made it his long-standing job . |
| 19 | He said : ‘ It appears the company must have been virtually insolvent at that date . |
| 20 | It could n't have been less welcome at that particular moment . |
| 21 | And you would have been about seven at the time . |