Example sentences of "have been [adv prt] [prep] " 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 | He must have been around for years but I did n't know what his name was . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | My own memory is vivid : it was a bitterly cold morning , below - 14° , and the ground I trod , in which only days before I would have been up to my knees in mud , was as solid as rock . |
| 5 | Stephen Hawking makes frequent references to what God might have been up to when designing the cosmos . |
| 6 | This is because all the variation margin payments due will have been up to the penultimate trading day . |
| 7 | But the UN force in Namibia should have been up to handling the affair rather than turn the job over to the South Africans ; it would have been able to cope if it had been as strong as originally intended and deployed in good time with a decent plan in its knapsack . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ‘ That would have been up to her . ’ |
| 11 | Normally , she would have been up for several hours and written a couple of thousand words . |
| 12 | ‘ You must have been up with the famous Ord Gaunt ? ’ says the man whose name Howard did n't quite catch , and the dense Middle English blackletter in which the words are uttered exactly matches their resonant profundity . |
| 13 | They must have been up at Cambridge about the same time . |
| 14 | 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 . ’ ’ |
| 15 | Robert might have been up in the house . |
| 16 | If only I 'd gone along with the doctor 's proposals , it would have been over by now — completely and painlessly over , and any feelings of guilt I might have had as a result I would surely have dealt with ages ago . |
| 17 | The game could really have been over by about 60 mins , if not half time . |
| 18 | At the first , a middle-aged woman with an enormous bosom was digging a fork into a plate of salad with the precision of an accountant jabbing at his calculator , before transferring the accumulated forkful up to her rapidly masticating jaws ; and Morse knew that if he had married her , it would all have been over within the week . |
| 19 | They must have been on to her or somebody 's given her away , one or t' other , 'cos it must have been a set-up cop . |
| 20 | ‘ The fuzz would have been on to that straight away . |
| 21 | Besides , in those days , the girls would have been on to it quick as a flash and we did n't want that . |
| 22 | I suspect , though , there can be no doubt about which side she would have been on in the public debate about fox-hunting prompted by last week 's Private Member 's Bill . |
| 23 | But for that he would have got his sword out of its scabbard , and the fight they could not afford would have been on in earnest . |
| 24 | Wassall must have been in with a chance of winning the £10,000 first prize because he was the fifth fastest qualifier , with a time of 11.92sec for the 100 metres . |
| 25 | Could they have been in with the real Communist underground ? ’ |
| 26 | Jackie had had that all done and then I would have been in for my cup of tea . |
| 27 | You must have been in about in your mid twenties ? |
| 28 | → Sorry to have forgotten about the Pacifica , Graham — although , come to think of it , Charvel/Jackson might also have been in on the act back in the mid-eighties . |
| 29 | ‘ That means Goering must have been in on it ? |
| 30 | What about livestock would they have been in at that time of year ? |