Example sentences of "[vb infin] been [verb] [prep] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I hear you 've been talking to my Hilda and young Ralph . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ I hear you 've been talking to our friends in Manila , ’ he says , chattily , as though the difference in our rank means nothing to him . |
| 3 | The crowd seemed to be getting a little impatient just before the goal ( as I 'm sure we all were listening to it on the radio ) but can you imagine what the scum crowd would ahve been doing to their team if they had n't scored within twenty minutes ? |
| 4 | it would be the matter that would have been raised at our board meeting and relayed on |
| 5 | It would n't have been tolerated in her family . |
| 6 | In such a situation the true owner may have been divested of his claim against the wrongdoer under section 8(2) ( d ) but if not , he might still be entitled to sue by virtue of his title . |
| 7 | Tyndale may also have been assisted in his translations and proof reading by John Rogers and Miles Coverdale , both of whom continued his work after his death . |
| 8 | ‘ I would have thought the Royals would have been warned by their security people that on no account should they use mobile phones for sensitive information because they are not secure . |
| 9 | In fiction , he thought , Alice and I should have been tormented by our joint knowledge , distrustful , guilt-ridden , unable to live apart yet miserable together . |
| 10 | Most men would have been flattered by her interest , and he was warning her off ! |
| 11 | She may have been flattered by his attentions but was unwilling to sleep with him , added Mr Chad . |
| 12 | They alleged that the product marketed by his company could only have been made by his wrongful use of their business secrets . |
| 13 | ‘ Without Urban Programme funding it is unlikely that these schemes would have been undertaken in their present form , especially those requiring capital funding . |
| 14 | In 1822 Elizabeth 's son Robert was baptised at the Mile End Old Town Zion Chapel on Union Street , built by devotees of Lady Huntingdon 's Connexion ; the young boy , then 13 , may well have been staying with his uncle Samuel at the time , the latter having married three years previously . |
| 15 | She must have been born before his return to Ayrshire but whether or not her name was changed is not known . |
| 16 | An Irish TD will probably have been born in his constituency and reside there . |
| 17 | Why should we have been followed on our arrival in Peru ? |
| 18 | The ugly weal across his throat told its own story of why he was unable to say what had happened , although the gamekeeper believed he must have been swept from his horse by the low-lying branch of a tree . |
| 19 | If the £190,000 had never been paid , he would have been importuned by his creditors . |
| 20 | And if Jesus were the legitimate claimant of that monarchy , they would have been unified in their support of him , his family and his house . |
| 21 | But even if there had been , the groups would still have been unified by their joint involvement in a single ambitious enterprise , a single overriding endeavour — to rid their land of the Roman occupation and reinstate the old Judaic monarchy together with its rightful priesthood . |
| 22 | ‘ They both insist that there was no way in which their hostess could have been poisoned before their very eyes — and both the parlourmaid and the cook swear that she did n't take anything afterwards . |
| 23 | ‘ Could she have been thinking of her real brother ? ’ |
| 24 | Mrs. Healey denied that there had been any collision and proposed to call expert evidence to prove that any damage to the plaintiff 's car could not have been done by her car . |
| 25 | Of course , much of that would have been done in his lectures , to which the anti-Aristotelian Exercises are an appendix . |
| 26 | Is it so likely that that man , however much he may have been struck by your beauty and gaiety , Miss Jonathan , would have at once decided to assassinate your future husband ? ’ |
| 27 | Though she listened for sounds in the house , she heard none : Sir Gregory 's organization ran smoothly , and all the watchers would have been sent to their posts long before . |
| 28 | Luckily my mother was out of the room at the time , or Dawn and I might have been sent to our room for giving her precious cat a heart attack . |
| 29 | ‘ So , by preventing Heather from leaving , you would have been acting in her best interests as well as yours ? ’ |
| 30 | During the 1960's the pastoralist ideology dominated , praising the countryside image and tradition , hence it might have affected the HIDB 's own self-image , thus protecting the Highland way of life may have been incorporated alongside their development remit . |