Example sentences of "have be [verb] [adv prt] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | I certainly would n't have been invited back to the Parsons ' , but I could have lived with that . |
| 2 | ‘ Folk must have been swept out to sea . |
| 3 | Both were villages with large numbers of Hinkley workers and which , a few years before , could have been relied on to toe the company line . |
| 4 | Otherwise I would have been sent back to my country and I do not know what would have happened to us . ’ |
| 5 | If I had n't been pregnant I would have been sent back to Bullwood , but they have n't got a mother and baby unit there , though in those days Styal was only for women over twenty-one , apart from the pregnant borstal girls . |
| 6 | Looking coldly at the figures and at the Plafond Limité de Classement ( PLC ) of 13,000 kilograms per hectare , it would seem that most of Champagne 's production in those two years should have been sent off to the distillery . |
| 7 | A human being who suffers a fatal heart attack when out walking in a wood would not have been setting out to ‘ die alone ’ . |
| 8 | But the DIA would n't risk any action based on information that might have been traced back to one of Asmar 's people . |
| 9 | Perhaps it could have been rounded up to seven hundred — still not quite accurate , but at least more accurate ? |
| 10 | The agreement was cancelled because it should have been put out to competitive bidding . |
| 11 | Perhaps some courageous reader will insist that the books are ordered , and the tide of semi-literacy will have been held back to that extent through the unsuspected influence of the popular cinema . |
| 12 | From October the Irish punt was at parity with the pound , which meant that books were cheaper : a £14.99 novel would have been marked up to Ir£16.50 in the past ; now it was Ir£14.99 . |
| 13 | I think one thing that blindfolded us a bit was the fact that the river was in spate at the time and if she had fallen in she 'd have been washed out to sea . |
| 14 | Clients have been known to send the factor invoices before the goods have been shipped , to create fictional ‘ fresh air ’ invoices , or to pocket payments that should have been passed on to the factor . |
| 15 | In any case , even if it were possible , the shares may have been passed on to a bona fide purchaser for value . |
| 16 | Those men , balding men with families , would have written their reports with a knowing smile , omitting anything too indelicate , and the contents would have been passed on to Urquhart 's boss , and then probably on to Spittals . |
| 17 | We hypothesized that heads would have tended to draw them to the attention of their more senior colleagues in the first instance and that the booklets might not subsequently have been passed on to the ‘ rank and file ’ . |
| 18 | A spokesman for Glenlight said without the subsidy a sixty-six per cent increase in freight charges would have been passed on to clients from tomorrow . |
| 19 | It is reasonable to assume that the daughters , particularly the elder ones , of such families will have been brought up to share in household chores . |
| 20 | It was discovered as recently as 1983 by Alain le Brun when excavating at the Neolithic settlement of Khirokitia in southern Cyprus and has been found to date from 6000 B.C. The important point about its location is that Cyprus has no wild cats and this means that the animal must have been brought over to the island by the early human settlers . |
| 21 | The Crown alleged that this was done at the instigation of the appellant with knowledge that the money should have been delivered up to the official receiver or the trustee in bankruptcy . |
| 22 | He could have been plummeting down to the centre of the earth , in a submarine nudging over the seabed or flying soundlessly through outer space . |
| 23 | The young woman was the one who seemed to be ‘ making the running , ’ but if the young chap had got a bit carried away , no doubt he would have been hauled up to court . |