Example sentences of "[vb infin] been [prep] " in BNC.

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1 ’ Anybody could 've gone outside and pulled a plug out of the wall and the show would 've been off the air A lot of people probably wish they had . ’
2 You ca n't imagine how much of a help you 've been to me .
3 I see you 've been to the hospital , or something like that .
4 Er right I need somebody out there who has n't done this before erm let's see we 've been to Ripon , been to Thirsk , erm been over to Scarborough with Dr Rock , North Allerton no I do n't like North Allerton well I mean I love North Allerton no no I want to go south I want to go Tadcaster way have we anybody down there ?
5 I thought it might 've been to a Royal Garden Party
6 erm , you know , with preparation beforehand I would normally have , have realized that , and anything else would 've been on top of it .
7 Oh that 's not so bad you see I 've been on holiday all last week
8 ‘ It should 've been with the batch of papers given .
9 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 .
10 Think I should 've been with you .
11 I told him it must 've been about the Royal Garden Party .
12 Jackson must 've been under the effects of the anaesthetic after a nose job to come out with something so bad .
13 That would 've been down hill .
14 Stopping would 've been like looking away from a hypnotist 's swinging silver watch .
15 I begin to get some idea of what the Roman games must 've been like . ’
16 Carlo and McGowan stood on either side of the embalmer , he might 've been in custody .
17 Reason they 're mixed up he , he must 've been in there messing about with them .
18 So if that was Jim cos Jim would 've been in his he has n't laid
19 I 'm gon na see been on nights , I 'm tired and
20 If you were it probably be a bit different than it actually is dad said to me once that if he , that if he 'd like been in charge of it we 'd of gone to the Leeds and not St Augustine 's
21 ‘ If Frankie had already signed , then he would have been aboard Musicale today , ’ said Sangster .
22 Yet this admission was not so grievous for Tate as it would have been for others .
23 In fact they are no more adequate for primitive societies than they would have been for any others .
24 The procedure would have been for the pilot to pull a handle , situated between his legs , which jettisoned the canopy while activating a rocket that fired his seat and that of his navigator clear of the plane .
25 This may have been for meals during the day while living elsewhere , or perhaps it was to make existing accommodation there more adequate for his use .
26 The simplest method would have been for a French submarine to wait for the Rainbow Warrior somewhere on the high seas and sink it with a torpedo but that posed the problem of what to do with any survivors .
27 However gratifying this may have been for Stirling , one distinct step was taken to clip his wings and stop his independent lobby of senior officers .
28 What little opportunity there might have been for careful integration , had been lost .
29 It is interesting to speculate what the consequences would have been for the curriculum if his view had prevailed .
30 The cry should have been for real money , the only means by which genuine choice can be exercised and discrimination on the basis of age eliminated .
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