Example sentences of "[pron] [pron] have [adv] [be] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What can As You Like It possibly mean to someone who had never been in love , or Hamlet to someone who has never felt ‘ how weary , stale , flat and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world ’ . |
| 2 | Rufus put up two or three names , one being of someone they had both been at school with . |
| 3 | They did not pause on her arrival , though Alix , ever polite , waved obliquely to welcome her back : watching them , it occurred to Liz that perhaps in all the years they had all known one another , this was one of the very few occasions on which they had all been in the same room . |
| 4 | First of all erm we 'll you you you 've obviously been round the construction industry a bit . |
| 5 | I listened in even though I had heard most of it before and then we were told that anybody who had never been in a canoe before had to carry out capsize drills . |
| 6 | Anybody who 's actually been in a war is very reluctant to see other people stumbling into an unnecessary one . |
| 7 | I ca n't tell her I 've never been in love . |
| 8 | He himself had never been to Holborn , Dinah reflected ; and knew why . |
| 9 | Anyone who has ever been to a similar school will know exactly what I mean . |
| 10 | You get it in the stew you ca n't find it he 's only been on your fur for christ sake |
| 11 | It might be a fire lit by the beggars themselves who had certainly been in the area . |
| 12 | Yet , all in all , farming and the farm remained visibly what they had always been in most parts of the world : more prosperous in the developed areas , and hence investing more heavily in improvements , buildings , etc. , more businesslike in many places , but not transformed out of recognition . |
| 13 | ‘ Work , ’ she told him quietly , her eyes seeking the dark depths of his for something that would relate to what they had once been to each other in Seville . |
| 14 | By the late 1980s , the attractions of city life were not what they had once been for the peasants . |
| 15 | Pop had returned to what it had always been about : the personal as the realm in which the meaning of your life is resolved . |
| 16 | So it was only in the nineteenth century when all the loopholes had been stopped up that marriage became in fact what it had always been in theory , indissoluble . |
| 17 | Once seated , Denice tells us she 's only been on a blind date once before , and that was years ago . |