Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [adv] have been [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not the desire to destroy it , but rather to turn time back and let me never have been involved with it . |
| 2 | ‘ And I imagine you always have been able to from the dawn of time . ’ |
| 3 | She 'd been surprised and off-balance on hearing his voice , but her subsequent enthusiasm and willingness to help him out had been well-feigned . |
| 4 | I could n't remember her ever having been any different , and even Lili could n't have known her as a young woman , for Syl 's mother was old enough to have been his grandmother . |
| 5 | That may be so , but when I first knew them there had been radical changes . |
| 6 | There 've been some big by Shrewsbury over the years , I 'll tell ya there 've been some big clubs here in the past years and it looks very much on the cards again tonight , they have got a massive job on their hands now Blackburn to come back into this . |
| 7 | Accordingly , an assembly such as this in England — and let me remind you there have been earlier ones , at Sheffield and Keele — is an act of homage to a great and greatly maligned poet ; but it is also , and can not help but be , a patriotic demonstration against ‘ suffocating insular coziness ’ . |