Example sentences of "have [been] [adv prt] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Forty eight and and presumably many of the people who are perhaps seventy drawing pensions , they may not have even paid in thirty years themselves , I mean they may be many of them may not have been around for that period of time . |
2 | According to work done in the 1970s and 1980s , there could have been up to 32 in the rocks of Burgess shale alone , including many never seen anywhere else . |
3 | That 's you know it was all purely hypothetical the figures they produced but er they were comparing it to what we had pr previously been producing we all sort of realized that for a set production figure we could have been up to forty pound worse off , per week . |
4 | But the little tousle-headed , dirty , tanned , bold toddler that was me might well have been up to some sort of mischief involving the beast . |
5 | Normally , she would have been up for several hours and written a couple of thousand words . |
6 | Carrie suddenly said , ‘ Your mum and I were worried about you , Seb , but all my dad could keep saying was , ‘ It 's a good job I managed to reach you when I did , or you 'd have been up at that farmhouse for another week . ’ ’ |
7 | ‘ The fuzz would have been on to that straight away . |
8 | What about livestock would they have been in at that time of year ? |
9 | No Chris should have been in at six , that 's when the first team started counting . |
10 | By now you should have been out on several practice walks and determined your state of fitness . |
11 | I must n't have been out of that office half an hour and I 'd , she 'd rung here and left a message to say I could go on it . |
12 | London Scottish may have been out of top league rugby for a few seasons , but they 're a real threat to the cherry and whites . |
13 | Dad normally would n't have been out in such madness , but there he was , this grey-haired man just over five feet tall , going into a phone-box when we had a working telephone in our hall . |
14 | There was continued sniping about the March performance , with Rover , whose market share was down to less than 10 p.c. , claiming sales would have been down by 20 p.c. were it not for Ford ‘ buying market share ’ . |