Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] [pron] [vb past] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He looked at me apathetically through a mist of weakness and pain and one could see he 'd been in that water a lot too long . |
| 2 | We used we used to have someone who we used to know who 'd been in one of the big houses . |
| 3 | ‘ Ach , come on , you would think I had been at the whisky already . |
| 4 | Toby Farrar 's wife would think he had been in the wars . |
| 5 | I count it a privilege to have been asked to become its chairman — though naturally I would wish it had been in happier circumstances . |