Example sentences of "[adj] have [been] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He tried to be nice about it , but it was fairly obvious he did n't want me any more ; and truthfully , I did n't want him any more either , except in so far that I could n't bear that it should all have been for nothing — worse than nothing . |
| 2 | If you take the present notion of the galaxies and run it back in time , it would seem that they should all have been on top of each other at some moment between ten and twenty thousand million years ago . |
| 3 | In addition , the ability to recognise and trace witnesses and the conditions under which police witnesses made observations might all have been of assistance to the defendants . |
| 4 | Will it all have been worth it ? |
| 5 | ‘ We may not all have been through the war together , ’ he told me , ‘ but we 're all Conservative MPs and want to stay that way . ’ |
| 6 | If someone was looking for The Bar in those days — because there was no name written up or sign for it , no lights at all , and not even a number on the door , Madame liked to keep it that way even when she did n't have to any more — I mean when she opened up we may all have been in a sort of hiding , and not many people knew about The Bar and our life there , but it was n't that way later , and now you know we can have lights and advertising and you see boys queueing up outside every night , very public , and I like to see that — but in those days , in those days if somebody arranged to meet you for a date there , and it was their first time and they were n't sure how to find us , you 'd joke with them , and you 'd say well first there is a wedding , and then there 's a death , and there 's the news , and then there 's us ; meaning , first there 's the shop with the flowers , the real ones , and next door to that is the undertaker 's with the fake flowers in the window , china , all dusty ; and then the newsagent 's and magazine shop , and then right next door to that is The Bar . |
| 7 | Knowing that the crew must all have been in the centre of the fuselage at crash stations , we also knew they must all be dead . |
| 8 | If he had , they 'd all have been round his door trying to stitch together an agreement and dropping the council . |
| 9 | ‘ Which platform would that have been on ? ’ |
| 10 | Would that have been about the time you went back to the car to look for your nine iron ? ’ |
| 11 | When would that have been about this were they in the second division then or |