Example sentences of "[vb infin] [conj] [pers pn] have been " in BNC.

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31 So you , you could put him into property , erm but erm I do n't know if he 'd been in the U K for the last few years whether he 'd be that keen on commercial property .
32 The party 's best-known candidate , Alessandra Mussolini , the Duce 's grand-daughter , said yesterday : ‘ I 'm very happy for the MSI , even if I still do n't know if I 've been elected ’ .
33 Do n't wait until it has been completed .
34 Ca n't buy till you 've been round once !
35 Ca n't buy till you 've been round once ?
36 This is the very important part of the training cycle and the cycle is incomplete cos there 's no good investing in time and training is there if we do n't know whether we 've been
37 So I do n't know whether they 'd been sending them away , to be er as patterns to some other firm or what , but there was quite a quant there was er a quantity of of casting sand you know black stuff that you use .
38 Lastly , the GCSE requires pupils to wait for the length of a two-year course before they can know whether they have been successful , whereas a record of achievement is only the most recent and perhaps summarizing statement of progress which the pupils themselves have monitored and recorded .
39 yes , and I , I do n't know whether I 've been that way , I honestly do n't know right then , so you 're all systems go , that 's the main thing
40 HOW Will I know whether I have been regressed or whether it is simply my imagination working overtime ?
41 I do n't know whether it 's been done or not .
42 The thief does n't know whether it 's been marked , cos usually they take in practise , what could the police be able to do ?
43 You er last time I saw you , you were I did n't know whether you 'd been starting up in er in photography but you had been next door I think or I 'd seen a lot of your stuff .
44 The miners who had escaped , knew immediately that John had been left behind but did not know whether he had been entombed alive or buried under the rock .
45 She was tempted to tramp noisily down so that if Shildon had lingered he would be scared away , but then she would never know whether he had been there .
46 Be more ready to say sorry ; she will apologize when she 's been in the wrong .
47 I 'll tell you what it is — it 's only bogland and I should know for I 've been lookin' at them fields for years . ’
48 If then you have invited the artists of Europe to send in plans for a Plan which we have no intention of executing , two questions will arise — the first is who will pay the Premiums which you propose to offer for these Plans , seeing that we could hardly propose to Parliament to vote Premiums for Plans that are not to be executed , and secondly whether the Artists of Europe will not think that they have been trifled with in being asked to send in Plans for an undertaking which the Govt had on consideration determined not to attempt .
49 Because when you raised the telephone … he showed great irritation and pretended not to hear you , so that it immediately made you think that you 'd been unwise to telephone at all .
50 they did not think that it had been a whole school effort ;
51 Well I do n't se I do n't think that it has been badly designed for the old people , I think the object of building the town as it has been built is to integrate the erm the old people with the young , perhaps the young people resent that but I think we have got to have a mixed community in as much as we have got to be aware that old people need attention in as much as they need companionship and if they are not integrated with the community they are going to be I really se , just left out on their own which in lots of cases there are very , very many lonely people , old people but if they are put within the community I think the community will look after them , in as much as giving them companionship whether the people , some people resent it or not , I do n't know , but I do think that they should not be segregated .
52 All over the country hurt and disillusioned journalists and would-be journalists wondering why they had never received a reply could only presume that they had been rejected .
53 How could she explain that she 'd been too frightened of the dammed-up emotion she 'd felt in both her mother and father ?
54 Churchill , as First Lord of the Admiralty , could not explain that he had been conscious of enemy intentions , without giving away the secret that German codes were being broken .
55 He would ask what the hell did it matter where he had been , now that he was here ?
56 Or are you simply afraid to show openly what you can do where he 's been before you ? ’
57 But she did confirm that they had been deposited in the Kazachi Aquarium , which is surrounded by military bases , and not open to the public , before their bid for freedom .
58 awards monies for specific purposes , your offices for specific and confirm the expense of those purposes , annual auditors to actually confirm that it has been so spent .
59 No I did visit Lawrence in prison after he was recaptured er and spoke to him about various things , including this er this incident and he did confirm that he had been at flat er for a couple of days er befo before the actual search .
60 He 'll definitely be playing for the French next week and they would n't even confirm that he 'd been banned from the scum 's next 4 matches in Europe ( which ones did they have in mind ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ) .
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