Example sentences of "[vb infin] [been] [noun] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | Possibly because some of them might 've been councillors and knew the ways that sort of er things went on and how to get things done officially and above board . |
| 2 | It is sad that Orwell should have been bedridden and dying when he met Waugh , for the first and last time . |
| 3 | Would they have been country and gospel-based songs ? |
| 4 | Clearly , there would have been conflict and confusion over what had and had not been devolved . |
| 5 | My favourite lessons would have been Art and Composition . |
| 6 | Brown sticks stuck out of the sleeves where there should have been wrists and his head was like a hard dry acorn , sun-burned and bald , no hair . |
| 7 | ‘ If we 'd been pounced upon a year ago we 'd have had maybe one good song and we would have been shit and not ready , without our style defined . ’ |
| 8 | Of course there must have been prohibitions and limits set , but I do n't remember rebelling against any of them . |
| 9 | There is even one corner where life in the year 2000 B.C. is represented : when Alford , or whatever the site would have been known as then , would have consisted of straw huts where its inhabitants might have been weavers and flint tool makers . |
| 10 | Indeed , they could have been Hal and his rascally crew . |
| 11 | Refuge theory would predict that where forest now stands today , there would have been savanna and that the higher wetter country would have been the ‘ refugia ’ in glacial times . |
| 12 | The champions might equally well have been Epicurus and Lucretius ranged against St Paul . |
| 13 | Others were in pairs , lying next to tangles of black metal that must have been mortars and missile launchers before Ace had destroyed them . |
| 14 | I put the dustbin bag out on the Wednesday and it and and and it should have been Thursday and . |
| 15 | All around such a site there would formerly have been fields and other areas of land use . |
| 16 | It could have been vicars and tarts , of course , but I reckon he 's one of those transvestites that hang out up there . |
| 17 | Peggy pulled down the orange sheets of plastic intended to keep the glare off her goods in the window , both in summer when there might have been sunshine and in winter when it was unnecessary . |
| 18 | There should have been gloves and protective goggles and face masks to field the resin and varnish dust . |
| 19 | The Government 's figures — let us for the moment assume that they have an accuracy which the Government 's abysmal record on predicting poll tax bills certainly does not justify — show that average council tax bills this year in Langbaurgh would have been £470 and in Middlesbrough £447 — £170 and £153 respectively higher than the equivalent fair rates bills . |
| 20 | It might have been Icarus and Pilcher , instead of the Wright brothers … ! |
| 21 | Penny McAllister 's parents welcomed the decision but insisted the verdict should have been murder and the sentence life . |