Example sentences of "[prep] been " in BNC.

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1 Do n't you think it would of been absolutely Super to have been Immortalised by Robert Burns ?
2 Telling you , I thought we 'd of been clomping around on the bare floor-boards and sitting on orange-boxes watching a wee black-and-white portable for ever .
3 That could of been 'bout us —
4 I could of been a laundress ,
5 I could of been a waitress —
6 I could of been a housemaid
7 ‘ I suppose I 've kind of been labelled with the Mystery Train riff … ’
8 They I mean in a time when it 's sort of been difficult to make money erm why is that one got not gone by the board and more amateur production put in there ?
9 Erm , dum , dum , the market stall as you know , we did n't have it in the market , we had it on the thank goodness because we parked it in the shade , erm during that period we got five hundred and thirty two signatures , with three or four more of you it could of been a thousand , erm we also got fourteen pounds , seventeen in donations , all completely unasked for cos as you know , we do n't take money .
10 Erm , and then we get requests for things from the leader of the Council directly , that he wants us to respond to , the chair of that committee to erm will , will do the same thing , we 'll get requests from other departments relating to our work , some of which might of been you , we erm , the Council has a group for the finance advisory group , which is a small group of Councillor 's and officer 's that meet to discuss not in , in public session , key erm financial and other major policy erm issues that , and the reason why that group was set up , erm was that it felt like with the introduction of Poll Tax and the Local Government Housing and Finance Tax , that it needed outside the committee cycle to erm review the impact of those legislation to look at it 's finances more closely and what , and we as a policy team report into that group and get request from work from that group as well .
11 I find this very difficult to erm , to relate , to relate hard work to the women portraying in , in this , we 've got the postcard of that one , erm it must of been hard work and very tedious , but I think every now and then the moment breaks away and shines through at the back , and I think people like , like Gaugin erm captures those moments and then releases them on the canvass , and I hope that erm by , I hope I 've been able to show you how I use art as a voice erm and a friend as my own work , even though we 've maybe had to do such a sort of hand fist way , hand fisted way , erm , but , I , I 've recently started to re-visit old favourite of paintings and I found that the story they tell sometimes has changed dramatically , maybe sometimes when your very little that , that , you know , sometimes dramatically as well , erm , but I , mostly , most importantly its , its still , I still find them , all of them compelling and challenging and , and something to stride for in my own work , erm , er only time will tell so I 'll finish with the , the last poem which is erm comes from the postcard what 's going round which is harvest , its called Patterns In The Grass , Wheat cut and falls , making lion head patterns in the grass , sickle shaped women bend and bow as a naive dressed as a dog steals the evening meal .
12 if I had n't of been blinded he was out the door
13 It could not of been easy
14 So you could , the handwriting could of been neater , fine and then you want to pay some attention to your illustrations in the future , that 's good , come on then shout at me , it 's the only time you 're allowed .
15 Yeah , you 're longest chain is a six so it could of been clearly based on hexane .
16 But there would of been !
17 The these could of been yeah , they were bringing er er an , I 'm bringing it in because I
18 But then you come and tell us well they 're a charitable trust I would of thought that a charitable trust would of been very er , happy to have seen the some rented accommodation ?
19 It must of been , it must of been very difficult for her ?
20 It must of been , it must of been very difficult for her ?
21 So it was n't long , no it could n't of been very long
22 I suppose I can understand it now , I mean it must of been a lovely place , and then to have all these new houses going up you know , but erm , I mean there was some lovely , lovely lanes
23 It must of been fifty one , June
24 it must of been at the end in the autumn at , at least of fifty one
25 Oh it might of been
26 So that would of been
27 Oh yes , yes , we , the we had an extremely large rooms , I do n't know went , what , what , what went wrong the architect but we had two enormous rooms which could of been quite easily divided into three , but we could of had two bedrooms instead of one and the conse
28 the flat in , in London , the flat we came from and so we had accumulated a little more furniture than one would usually have in two rooms and the kitchen and we got here and were allowed to spread ourselves , if there 's one criticism that one could say about this house , is that the size of the rooms confines you to what you put in them , they 're square , that the , the division between the living room and the dining room is through a pair of glass doors , where perhaps that could of been arranged with either sliding doors or some other feature so as not to separate it yet again into two square boxes and erm
29 One or two of the excellent ones was spent , was spoiled by a little bit of er need to erm edit very carefully introdu introduction of concepts you must be careful not to , if you 've got a couple of hundred words only , but do n't introduce er concepts diversity of design must of been er a phrase picked up from the video itself because it appeared in two or three of them , but it 's no use talking about diversity and divine is it , de design as if , as if it 's a concept which everybody else is going to understand .
30 Yeah , yeah , but every case is different , you do n't , I mean she might of been in some car accident or something like that you see , might n't she ?
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