Example sentences of "[vb infin] been [verb] [prep] another [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had thought they were at least speaking to one another privately , but if Jim had really sworn an affidavit he must have been listening on another telephone . |
| 2 | You may have been born in another country , for instance , and still not feel truly at home in the foreign culture and customs you have come to . |
| 3 | As he stood on the tee with the green five hundred yards away , Kyle must have been thinking of another birdie , possibly an eagle . |
| 4 | Cos I wondered if funerals would would wo have been seen as another sign of disrespect . |
| 5 | In less than five minutes , many hopes of success will have been dashed for another year . |
| 6 | The mare might have been kicked by another horse . |
| 7 | He says it could be an accident , but it could also have been caused by another person . |
| 8 | It is perhaps noteworthy that two chroniclers refer to the plague of 1361 as the pestis puerorum , the plague of the children , and if it is true that children in particular had perished in that outbreak , it could be that by the early 1370s the supply of labour was being reduced by a shortage of new recruits , particularly as the survivors of 1361 would also have been attacked by another outbreak in 1369 . |
| 9 | It could have been recycled from another person 's toiletry . |
| 10 | ( Teachers used to living in subject blinkers are sometimes startled to find that films chosen as " starters " for topic work in their subject may already have been shown by another teacher in a different context . |
| 11 | Such an " increment count and jump " instruction specifies an accumulator , index register , or store location whose contents are to be used as a loop counter ( and which will have been initialized by another instruction ) . |
| 12 | The central tower at Wells , in its original form closely resembling the tower of Witney church , probably owed its design to Master Thomas , but may have been detailed by another hand ( R. K. Morris in a paper delivered to the British Archaeological Association 's conference in Exeter , 1986 ) . |
| 13 | He could have been walking on another planet The flat , moonlight illuminated landscape , interrupted by large and small pools of bright water seemed unreal . |
| 14 | Additionally , the fact that this part of the movement was written out by Leopold suggests that Mozart may have been working on another part of the symphony while his father was copying the part that already existed . |
| 15 | Because Edith now Edith was going away for some unknown reason , I do n't know , she must have been going on another holiday anyhow . |
| 16 | if the SSR is to close an SPR , the SPR must have been accepted previously by a LIFESPAN user and must not have been closed via another SSR . |
| 17 | The windows are interesting , with their association with the wool trade , though there is some speculation that some of them may have been brought from another house . |
| 18 | Actually , the experiment is not perfect because , strictly speaking , Andersson only showed that the number of nests on a male 's territory was related to tail length ; the eggs could have been fertilized by another male , and the female then attracted to the territory of a male with a longer tail . |
| 19 | Of course I realised that at the last moment he could have been attached to another troop , but this seemed highly unlikely in view of the S.A.S. methods of training , which relied upon close personal co-operation between all ranks . |