Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [verb] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Everything my husband has done has been for me . |
| 2 | The furthest anyone has had to travel was to Los Angeles and back , all in forty-eight hours , to persuade the reclusive Harrison Ford to appear on the show . |
| 3 | The one area where nothing seemed to have occurred was in setting up a Social Fund , since the Six had even begun to grasp the nettle of a common agricultural policy , agreeing in January 1962 to introduce common target prices for the most important farm products and a levy on agricultural imports into the EEC . |
| 4 | The point at which the system may be said to have commenced was in the Progress Office . |
| 5 | As a university member , I think the thing I would most like to have happen is to be accepted as an ordinary person in the place I live and the people I meet with . |
| 6 | If you had told me four years ago that what has happened would happen , I would have expected to have been in pretty poor shape by now . |
| 7 | How he must have wished to have been in the puppet 's place , no policies , work and no strings attached . |
| 8 | If he were Donleavy , he would have had to have been at least ten years older than that to have served in Vietnam . |
| 9 | The court rejected the " uncommercial " suggestion that the reference , to achieve those results , would have had to have been to arbitration , and held that it was irrelevant whether the architect issued his certificate mistakenly , because both parties had taken the risk he might do that . |
| 10 | The writing would have appeared to have been on the wall from the moment Lincolnshire 's Sarah Bentley ( now representing Surrey ) , let slip a 5–1 opening set lead in the first rubber , a lead that included a missed set point . |
| 11 | As I looked at the faces marching past with a smart eyes right , I could n't help thinking of those who would have liked to have been on this parade ; those still manning the trenches , and all those buried in a shallow grave in the orchards around the village . |
| 12 | So I ask you to be open minded they may seem a little bit off the wall to start with , but everything that we do is done for a purpose to achieve er what we 're wanting to achieve and what I do want to achieve is by the end of tomorrow is to have given you a system . |
| 13 | we , we , we , we , we 've , we 've , we 've got one decision I think which we are making , which is that we should n't at the moment , make any recruitment until we 've got confirmation that we can guarantee employment next year , se , secondly I think we 're saying that the first appointment that we do want to make is of a complaint examiner , and that if further investigators leave us , then we would n't be seeking to replace them as investigators , we 'd be seeking to replace with the complaint examiner , that , that , that , |
| 14 | AF boss Dr Bruno Broughton said : ‘ There is nothing wrong with the bulk of the IFM proposals but forcing people to qualify before being allowed to go fishing is over the top . ’ |
| 15 | A meeting between him and Louis XIV was not a great success , but the young man made a generally good impression and though they had missed the ideal moment , when Prince Charles was threatening London from Derby , the French do seem to have been in earnest , as a letter to Prince Charles from the French Minister of Marine , the Comte de Maurepas , dated December 1745 , confirms : |
| 16 | I 'd 've loved to have been in there and gone mad pull all them windows out and put all nice new wee windows in . |
| 17 | ‘ There is no Gook or Kraut or Nip for this war ’ , he writes , ‘ and the only Iraqi jokes I 've heard have been on the telephone from back home ’ . |
| 18 | She had thought that the woman had liked her , but the comment she had caught had been to the effect that spoiled children like Miss T. got what they deserved ! |
| 19 | most of the things that I 've done have been on Atlantic salmon and you put in Atlantic salmon and you get seven thousand eight hundred |
| 20 | Everything he had done had been in the light of a life he believed we would , one day , share . |
| 21 | Now , what you 've got to do is to be wily . |
| 22 | ‘ The biggest gang we 've got has been at war with its rival for eleven years , ’ Hart explained . |
| 23 | This is a matter of personal conscience and what every member in the council chamber today must be aware of , is that there is a vociferous and committed group of people we know that because we 've all had a great deal of communication from them and interestingly enough I have and most of the communication I 've had has been in favour so victory , people who write must be extremely perceptive in , with er marketing the that 's not the point , we all know that there is a committed and vociferous group of people whose consciences do not lead them to the same conclusions as Mr 's conscience and the issue really is , do we in a liberal and democratic society have the right to impose our consciences on those of other people who live in the community and quite clearly and quite determinedly take a different view . |
| 24 | As Saturday draws near , the communist dream he thought he had helped realise is in danger of turning to ashes in his hands . |
| 25 | Well , I had done what I could to protect the new catapult and , while I was sorry that what had happened at the Rabbit Grounds had cost me a trusted weapon with many battle honours to its name ( not to mention a significant sum out of the Defence budget ) , I thought that maybe what had happened had been for the best . |
| 26 | After Gundovald 's death Brunhild does seem to have been in communication with his sons . |
| 27 | For some reason , even though he was often sharp and rather short with her , however kind he was to his poor patients , she had begun to like being with him . |
| 28 | Most of what I have heard has been through the press . |
| 29 | I believe a lot of what they have done has been in a calculated way , like getting George Best on the cover . |
| 30 | This is most common in America , and all the examples I have seen have been in books printed there . |