Example sentences of "[vb infin] [been] [verb] [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And er er sort of phone call one afternoon at half past four from the deputy , oh by the way , in fact if we had n't been talking to any Brummies on a we would 've been interviewing people and telling them that they 'd got a three year and these are all points that are gon na be brought up next week , but I do n't see there is any possibility of them doing an about turn because they 've gone public on it . |
| 2 | He suggested that Abraham Ross might have been mistaken in. thinking both burglars had Scottish accents . |
| 3 | Thank God you got some expert help or we 'd have been hearing duck screams in our nightmares forever . ’ |
| 4 | There is evidence that this tactic had some effect in marginal seats and , indeed , made the overall result far better for Labour than it would have been had people not voted tactically . |
| 5 | The sheet metal workers , who cut sheet metal to the design of the drawings of the part of a car , earned 2s 6d ( 12p ) per hour , and did a lot of overtime at one and a quarter time , which means that many of them would have been earning £6 or £7 per week , and be well over the arbitrary divide of £4 suggested as a line for the divide between the working class and the middle class . |
| 6 | The good , sturdy , private sector alternative would have been to leave people waiting in the rain . |
| 7 | So they 'd have been picking people in their thirties then , now they 'd be in their sixties . |
| 8 | Total expenditure on transport services around 1750 probably exceeded £1.25 million a year ; by 1800 it was probably over £3 million , and by 1815 may have been approaching £5 million . |
| 9 | ‘ I 'm not being critical of our unions , but there should have been marketing people approaching the corporates even during the World Cup ’ , he says . |