Example sentences of "have be [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | ‘ Ted would 've been lost without me , ’ he boasted . |
| 2 | What Mr Sutherland can 've been thinking of , I do n't know . |
| 3 | ‘ I think it must 've been hit by a car , ’ he said . |
| 4 | Well you see they 've been brainwashed to that sort of music so they 're bound to , bound to like it . |
| 5 | I hear you 've been looking at Eggle guitars … |
| 6 | The Beach-heads hear they 've been cursed by a Swells SOTW |
| 7 | you know so erm so some er a lot more should 've been done about actually getting , even if it was just well I 'm in that area , I 'm in the area on such and such a day anyway so I can call in to see you . |
| 8 | A little bit I think that he was just concerned that perhaps there might 've been other people who might 've wanted to come and if people had rung up and you had had a waiting list something could 've been done about it |
| 9 | ‘ I hear you 've been talking to my Hilda and young Ralph . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ I hear you 've been talking to our friends in Manila , ’ he says , chattily , as though the difference in our rank means nothing to him . |
| 11 | No but it must 've been talking about youngsters having cars |
| 12 | But they could 've been talking about something personal and we would 've heard everything they said . |
| 13 | Erm the issue is is that potentially you could be goi we could 've been going for four point three extra people and we probably wo n't do that . |
| 14 | The slow-crawl music they produced might 've been linked with hardcore , but it was really ‘ the end of rock , the dying throes ’ . |
| 15 | 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 . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ I can see I 've been displaced in Leo 's affections . ’ |
| 17 | On several occasions the ‘ correct ’ response was not the obvious one , so perhaps a wider variety of inputs could 've been catered for . |
| 18 | I do n't think we would 've been standing outside the gates . |
| 19 | ‘ 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 … ’ |
| 20 | 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 . " |
| 21 | I know but you could 've been fetched from Grand Canaries . |
| 22 | See I 've been coming for years with mouth ulcers . |
| 23 | She 'd 've been lying on Spanish beaches with her eyes tight shut knowing that every Spanish boy who passed would fancy her . |
| 24 | The vicar calls for silence for the ‘ Lord Mayor ’ , who makes a short speech declaring he has been elected for a year and a day . |
| 25 | Since a Conservative government has been elected for a fourth term these developments will probably continue . |
| 26 | ‘ Therefore , Labour will be back in strength in the next election , and in the meantime , will be tiny of the performance of the council which has been elected on this occasion . ’ |
| 27 | No British government in the past forty years and more has been elected with even a bare majority of the votes cast . |
| 28 | CHARLIE BISSET , a member of the elite club of players who have turned out for three Scottish districts , has been elected as an Edinburgh representative on the Scottish Rugby Union committee . |
| 29 | His eldest son , Bradford Wiley II , has been elected as his successor . |
| 30 | FORMER Mr Universe Terry Phillips , 53 , has been elected as a Conservative councillor in Knowsley , Merseyside . |