Example sentences of "[vb mod] [vb infin] be at [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only fascination is listening to a song that should have been at most ten seconds long and hearing some fool trying to get ten minutes out of it . |
| 2 | It must have been at that time that his habit of keeping notes on his travels began . |
| 3 | They must have been at that game for ages — and no anaesthetics , either . |
| 4 | She had said ‘ the rest of you ’ and I had never heard her so distance herself before , but what astonished me was the realisation that my father must have been at that party , must have returned with my mother to the villa in the small hours , must have been aware of me in my little white pyjamas and Panama hat . |
| 5 | It must have been at some time , because I can speak it now . |
| 6 | This very large accession takes up where the first deposit stopped , and covers the years 1861 to 1920 , in addition to some titles and papers of earlier date which must have been at some time extracted from their proper place . |
| 7 | For a while , she thought she could have been at any moderately boring Christmas party . |
| 8 | The clouds could have been at any height from fifty feet to six miles . |
| 9 | It may have been at this time that the name Saladin began to mean something to him . |
| 10 | And he came down he would have been working for he would have been at that time my great grandfather maybe or and he came down and he lived in lower Millfield after that and just as soon as he was out of his house , they just had the house demolished . |
| 11 | And they would have been at that muckle supper . |
| 12 | We must never forget , mind , either you or me , if it had n't been for Mrs Aggie and her yard , God knows where we would have been at this minute . |
| 13 | The potential advantage of more frequent dosing would have been at most a rather small one therefore and would not have changed the main conclusions of this study . |