Example sentences of "[verb] be [adv] " in BNC.
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| 31 | I suppose I could 've been too cool ! ’ |
| 32 | She would 've been all fat there once , and a baby growing inside of her . |
| 33 | But I say , it should 've been it should 've been all d I mean everybody 's known about this chiller for a long while and it 's as I say , I mean when was here it was costing a thousand pound a time . |
| 34 | Now if , if you accept the ten percent owning the eighty percent , there must 've been enough but the poor are not getting it . |
| 35 | How , how old would you 've been then ? |
| 36 | There must 've been with erm in forty seven was it the encirclement campaign where they allowed the nationalists to sort of drive through the , I do n't know the defences , they must 've been fairly certain of their support in certain areas by then . |
| 37 | so they must 've been fairly sure of their support to allow them to come into an area of villages . |
| 38 | But various other bits of machinery which are now lying idle around the quarry probably would 've been better left in Italy or Spain or wherever they were acquired from . |
| 39 | You 'd 've been better off to have been booked in here for a good night 's sleep and then driven up the next day but then you 're virtually sort of getting up there turning round and coming back are n't you ? |
| 40 | It would have been a great deal more difficult because military aircraft use more volatile fuel , and they tend to be armed , they tend to be carrying things that civil aircraft do n't normally carry , so yes , it would 've been much more difficult . |
| 41 | If they had questioned it the chances of the orders being carried out would 've been much less of course . |
| 42 | The big push would be diplomatic propaganda screwing the pound sterling on the money markets … mugging the Mother of Parliaments would 've been quite a job . ’ |
| 43 | ‘ That would 've been quite a drive for you all the way to London . |
| 44 | Those things should n't 've been there , for some reason they 'd infuriated him . |
| 45 | And your sister 's ten years older than you so they must 've been there ten years plus , must n't they ? |
| 46 | you , you must 've been there ten years plus . |
| 47 | Yeah , that 's the whole thing , we 've gathered all the information now , we may 've been there an hour , hour an a half , maybe two hours depending upon the appointment so you go back to the office and work on a plan of attack . |
| 48 | If you 'd have had the ti if you 'd 've been there |
| 49 | Oh Charlie shut her up at , at Chris 's mums funeral , when we went to Chris 's mum funeral , she 's erm , she said something or other about , request something or other about , pointing at the I should n't 've been there really because I did n't know her and Charlie said she felt did n't know her and erm she said oh well Rose never spoke about her , or words to that effect , Chris says the reason our mum never spoke about her cos she never showed her face in here anyway , he said when was the last time you see your mum , at that , she shut straight up like that , her face went , she 'd like saying that I should n't 've been there cos I did n't know her , I mean yet , she ai n't set foot in the house for fucking year like , you know she 's a horrible cow , and like when we went in the church , when we went in the crematorium er you had , she had a nice , big one up on the hill is it Arnold 's ? |
| 50 | Oh Charlie shut her up at , at Chris 's mums funeral , when we went to Chris 's mum funeral , she 's erm , she said something or other about , request something or other about , pointing at the I should n't 've been there really because I did n't know her and Charlie said she felt did n't know her and erm she said oh well Rose never spoke about her , or words to that effect , Chris says the reason our mum never spoke about her cos she never showed her face in here anyway , he said when was the last time you see your mum , at that , she shut straight up like that , her face went , she 'd like saying that I should n't 've been there cos I did n't know her , I mean yet , she ai n't set foot in the house for fucking year like , you know she 's a horrible cow , and like when we went in the church , when we went in the crematorium er you had , she had a nice , big one up on the hill is it Arnold 's ? |
| 51 | Erm so in actual fact we 'd 've been there or thereabouts had we not made the budget assumptions that we did . |
| 52 | Presumably it is much more likely that such a problem would be picked up by professionals involved in a family , but it underlines the fact that children who are failing to thrive are very much at risk unless they are being taken to the clinic , for example , or are being seen regularly in the home by a Health Visitor . |
| 53 | Summer thunderstorms are common , but the torrential downpours which they often bring are soon evaporated in the hot sun and are of limited value to agriculture . |
| 54 | Most of the generalisations one could make are probably true for a lot of other languages as well . |
| 55 | The radical consequences of relationism and what it overthrows are neatly described by Loader : |
| 56 | Fleshy fruits of the type birds eat are often thought of as primitive in many features , that is to say that they share more characters with ancestral flowering plant fruits than do fruits with wind-dispersed seeds . |
| 57 | As we have seen , the " ants " that anteaters eat are often not true ants at all , but termites . |
| 58 | But Mr. de Lacy submits that both it and the previous cases which it applied are clearly distinguishable from the instant case because they all rested upon the critical circumstances that the lender or creditor in each case left it to the principal debtor to obtain , in such a way as he thought fit , the execution of the document . |
| 59 | Never before had the images of the great and respected been so irreverently and so widely circulated . |
| 60 | Their important characteristic is that they cut across the divisions of the formal structure and usually are very powerful if the matters to be communicated are formally confidential or affect the future of particular individuals . |