Example sentences of "he [vb mod] [verb] been [verb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ’ He should have been voted broadcaster of the year . |
| 2 | Thus he must have been singing falsetto in this role . |
| 3 | He must have been chopping wood outside and forgotten to hide it . |
| 4 | He could have been composing rubbish for all I was competent to judge , yet that possibility did not enter my head . |
| 5 | He would have been supplying booze to restaurants and nightclubs . |
| 6 | Had the Republican candidate in 1980 been an ideologue , he would have suffered the same fate as Barry Goldwater in 1964 ; if , by some fluke , he had been elected , he would have been denied cooperation by congress and would have been drummed out of office in 1984 . |
| 7 | If he said ‘ No ’ , he would have been committing treason against Rome . |
| 8 | More commonly , he will have been given power to make laws , subject only to the controlling authority of one or both Houses of Parliament to unmake them , or to withhold the endorsement necessary for them to continue to enjoy the force of law . |