Example sentences of "[vb mod] [vb infin] be [conj] [pers pn] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh and , well it must 've been since we were at Malton so we 'd 've had it , what , about four three or four years when we went to Malton ? |
| 2 | It must 've been while I was stood up there . |
| 3 | But one thing you should understand is that you 're in way over your head . |
| 4 | What you should recognize is that it is a warning sign that you have been doing too much , and that you need to get away from the patient , at least for short periods in the day , if not for some days or weeks . |
| 5 | There has been some confusion — I do not know why there should have been because it was made clear last night by the Secretary of State for Wales — about the position of students . |
| 6 | Freeman ( 1984 ) has suggested that some of her research was not as thorough as it should have been if she was to make such claims , and even that her desire to reach the conclusions that she did made her see things as she wished to see them , rather than as they actually were ( see Shipman 1988 ) . |
| 7 | ‘ I though it must have been because they were accusing each other of sleeping with each other 's husbands , ’ said McLean . |
| 8 | So if he did take them , it must have been when he was here before . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ All they 'll know is that I am escorting a companion who is totally irresistible , and they 'll fall for you as I have . ’ |
| 10 | If your original application was rejected by some or all of the institutions you listed , this might have been because it was delayed and did not reach the admissions tutor until after the course was full . |
| 11 | At least when he was not with her she now knew where he was but the comfort this brought her was not as complete as it might have been because he was also with Annunciata during those times . |
| 12 | Such simulations , based on observed system behaviour , can tell us how things might have been if we are looking at unrepeatable , past , events or how the system might behave in the future , if the transition probabilities remain unaltered . |
| 13 | Just think what the reaction might have been if she 's responded by saying she had no plans to quit . |
| 14 | She might have been if she was going at you would n't she ? |
| 15 | It would be idle to speculate on what the figures might have been if it were not for the security situation . |
| 16 | The movement revealed her face as it might have been when she was young , comely and a temptation to coachmen . |
| 17 | He says that the circumstance might have existed as it did , the other events and conditions in the universe might have been as they were , and there might have been no smell . |
| 18 | The Ministry , the Veterinary Products Committee is now going away and they 're going to do even , even more work on it , erm , so I honestly do n't think that , that we 're going to get much more out of the Ministry until Veterinary Products Committee have come back and looked at it yet again , because the , the answer that you 'll get is that they 're already looking at that side of it . |
| 19 | Well , i i if I , the , on one of the comments I 'd make is that it 's the only time I 've ever known the accounting profession to do businessmen a favour by forcing them to face up to what the costs of the consequences of their actions are and this has as James said led to looking quite carefully and I think it 's difficult to quantify the cost at the moment for a variety of reasons . |
| 20 | All he could feel was that he was out of his depth . |
| 21 | All you could feel was that it was something bony . |
| 22 | Like Forster , all he could guess was that it was fast . |
| 23 | But what I 'd suggest is that we 're actually er will prepare today , this afternoon , an amended version er of that diagram which we can then er er pass to Mr and Mr for comment . |
| 24 | It could have been that he was overcome with shyness , for he gazed at her almost with awe and stumbled over his words . |
| 25 | ‘ I keep asking myself what it could have been that she was so keen to tell me on the phone . |
| 26 | No it could have been but it is n't . |
| 27 | Mind you , that could have been because he was happy he 'd got his own way . |
| 28 | Do you think I could have been as I was with you if I was already heavily involved with someone else ? ’ |
| 29 | All he could say was that we were waiting for something to happen . ’ |
| 30 | All we dare claim is that we are making them better readers ’ ( p. 56 ) . |