Example sentences of "[vb infin] [be] [adv] [prep] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You will enjoy being here at this course , you will enjoy the training . |
| 2 | Furthermore , the high instability of marriage which does occur is not in any way unique to them . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 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 | Wiping them might have been enough for most people — but not for somebody who was trying to do card tricks . ’ |
| 8 | What about livestock would they have been in at that time of year ? |
| 9 | Occasionally it is explained that they had already died — and given the still short life-expectancy of the period this must have been so in many cases . |
| 10 | That might have been so in this nation , but it was not the case throughout the empire . |
| 11 | By now you should have been out on several practice walks and determined your state of fitness . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 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 . |