Example sentences of "have be [adv] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | ‘ If it were obvious , we would n't have been here for five years trying to find it , and Paula would still be … . |
| 2 | All the time yes , apart from say about six weeks , used to come in in the winter to repair the do maintenance on the dredger and then the old harbourmaster would say right , we should have been here for six weeks , he come after a month , he 'd say , paint the cover the rust up he said and bugger off out again . |
| 3 | Wiping them might have been enough for most people — but not for somebody who was trying to do card tricks . ’ |
| 4 | Occasionally it is explained that they had already died — and given the still short life-expectancy of the period this must have been so in many cases . |
| 5 | That might have been so in this nation , but it was not the case throughout the empire . |