Example sentences of "[vb infin] [been] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I think it must 've been hit by a car , ’ he said . |
| 2 | The Beach-heads hear they 've been cursed by a Swells SOTW |
| 3 | You see I 've been entrusted with the task of getting him safely back to the Reich and I 've little more than three weeks to do it in . ’ |
| 4 | I do n't think we would 've been standing outside the gates . |
| 5 | ‘ You had them all the time — you trailed me round — you bloody filthy lying bastard — you poked my head into every shit-bin in Bristol — you led me up hill and down dale till my feet were dropping off — you made me steal some people 's boat — I could 've been got by the police — I might be festering in jail now — handcuffed — criminal — you do n't care , you 're criminal anyway — I would n't be surprised if you 'd murdered half a dozen innocent people and cut them up and kept their pieces stashed away in the hole where you 've been hiding my bag and my things and my money and my dreams … ’ |
| 6 | And there 's Master Tristram pretending he 's not listening to his father , who might 've been sitting in the Fowey stocks by now if it was n't for that same father 's efforts . " |
| 7 | Clearly without the deprivation payments some good inner city practices would have been bankrupted by the new contract . |
| 8 | It was hoped that over £100,000 would have been raised through the day 's efforts . |
| 9 | In my view , a number of the points raised in his petition are matters which could have been raised at the appeal . |
| 10 | The cereals grown would have been taken down the long lane to the water mill to be ground for flour , whilst vegetables , poultry and perhaps pigs would have been raised in the crofts behind each farmstead in the village street . |
| 11 | That is to say neither do I believe , in the terms of classical Christology , that Jesus of Nazareth could have had , as well as his human nature , a divine nature ; nor do I believe that he could have been raised from the dead , so acquiring uniqueness through God 's act of raising him . |
| 12 | That may change ; for , in recent years , developments in banking and commercial circles have led to the invention of a remarkable array of new and highly sophisticated types of ‘ securitised ’ loan investments as a result of which finance , which would formerly have been raised by a straightforward bank loan ( for most purposes not a debenture ) may be obtained through the issue of instruments , some of which for most purposes unquestionably are debentures and others of which may or may not be . |
| 13 | By using individual company case-studies and macro-economic evidence , this research will provide some answers to the questions of why these alternatives failed , and whether productivity could have been raised by a general adoption of different incentive and reward structures in industry . |
| 14 | It may even have been increased by the new Article 92 , in spite of the continuing ban on discrimination on the basis of nationality . |
| 15 | You must have been listening to the B.B.C. or something . ’ |
| 16 | And it gets in your hair and it gets in your clothes , she must have been listening to the television . |
| 17 | Civil Service have conceded fewer goals than any other team in the division , and had Howell not taken the decision to stand down from the top flight , he could have been elevated to the Scottish senior international training squad this summer . |
| 18 | They must have been riding for a long time , but there was no sign of a large town , only a solitary light shining ahead . |
| 19 | After a great expansion of HP in the 1920s , particularly for cars and for electrical goods , and then various repossession problems which may have been highlighted by the depression of the thirties , the Hire-Purchase Act 1938 introduced various controls . |
| 20 | It is very important that credit is given for any UK tax which may have been borne by an overseas trust . |
| 21 | Because the professional services will have been supplied to the landlord , only the landlord may recover as his input tax the VAT on those costs , even though they may have been borne by the tenant : because the expense is not on a supply to the tenant , the tenant can not deduct the VAT as input tax . |
| 22 | The reference to Murphy suggests that a sentence of four years would have been upheld on an appeal by the offenders . |
| 23 | These two tendencies may have been exacerbated by the rise in public expenditure in the 1960s , as Bacon and Eltis suggest , but they were not the cause of it , since they preceded it . |
| 24 | This led to forced feedings of turkeys , and , after being voided , resultant germination of seeds of the tree which was on the verge of extinction , though this may have been exacerbated by the depredations of introduced monkeys , which take unripe fruits . |
| 25 | He was a young man , probably no more than twenty ; his teeth were worn down to the stumps by rough ground corn , the tops so sliced through they might have been cut with a circular saw and the resulting surface polished with emery paper . |
| 26 | The death of the third , however , might have been hastened by the salmonella complication . |
| 27 | The aim of creating a sense of prime loyalty among members of the colony , which was small enough for them to know each other , did not constitute any kind of a threat to central authorities in 1922 , but it would not have been tolerated in the 1930s , when family members were encouraged to spy on one another in the state interest . |
| 28 | Vast masses of people were subject to conditions that would barely have been tolerated in the Dark Ages . |
| 29 | The leaves may have been scorched by the salt in the wind , especially those strong winds that often blow in to Blackpool off the sea . |
| 30 | If Rutland was typical of agrarian society it would have been understood as a matter of course that most men were peasant farmers and smallholders ; indeed , husbandman was the commonest description there , followed by labourers and servants whose status was one of dependence , and landless peasants who did not conform to the stereotype of a society composed of small independent producers . |