Example sentences of "[vb infin] been [adv] at [det] " in BNC.
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1 | Well done you and a very , very special thanks to the Princess Royal , without whose leadership it would not have been possibly at all . |
2 | I gather there was a defender on the goal line so Strachan could n't have been offside at all . |
3 | Pumpido had to make two saves while neither of the Italians need have been there at all . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | But you had to remember the circumstances they were there under — they should never have been there at all . |