Example sentences of "[vb infin] been [adv] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | He must have been around for years but I did n't know what his name was . |
2 | The invitation must have been largely in terms of a general specification involving basic designs and performance , for the prices varied greatly , depending on the type of hauling gear and the amount of sophistication of the secondary equipment . |
3 | In Sweden teachers collected 10 000 slide-rules , which would have been enough for students starting in 1983 and 1984 . |
4 | Telepathic communication , for us still the domain of science fiction or fringe experimentation , may be part of a dolphin 's daily life , and may have been so for centuries . |
5 | I think it must have been out of doors , because what I recall most is the way she seemed to dwindle on planes of blue . ’ |
6 | How long Joe had been in the marsh she did not know , but it was a very lonely spot , and he could have been there for hours and hours — perhaps even all through the night , thought Cheryl . |
7 | It , too , must have been there for years . |
8 | It must have been there for years , abandoned to the plunderers , an illicit plaything for the local children , a welcome shelter for the occasional vagrant like the seventy-year-old alcoholic who had stumbled on the body . |
9 | They must have been there for years . ’ |