Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [been] [adv] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I tend to favour the idea that people who have not been out of business too long could probably play a valuable role , although I accept that , if someone has been out of active business life for two or three years , his contacts and awareness of up-to-date affairs may have changed . |
| 2 | I 'd been away after that before I came to the electricity works here . |
| 3 | The nationality rule was a beautiful get-out for them , but I only had a few months to go before I 'd been here for ten years and would have been entitled to fight for the title . |
| 4 | And I 'd been there from six in the morning till quarter to nine . |
| 5 | I 'd been out with other boys other than Keith but they never touched me . |
| 6 | ‘ But I 'd been home for two hours when Silvia got back . |
| 7 | Earlier in the month I had been strongly against any idea of coalition … |
| 8 | I had been out for many hours that day and had covered many miles of jungle with unflagging caution , but without one moment , s unease , and then , on cresting the ridge , and coming in sight of the rocks , I knew they held danger for me , and this knowledge was confirmed a few minutes later by the kakar 's warning call to the jungle folk , and by my finding the man-eater 's pug marks superimposed on my footprints . |
| 9 | I 've been away for 10 years now and I 've been doing good work and making the right decisions about the work I do . |
| 10 | Well , I 've been away for three , well th the winters are n't as hard now as they used to be . |
| 11 | To be able just to walk , or drive , wherever you want ; Christ , I 've been away from all this for less than a week and I feel like somebody coming out after thirty years . |
| 12 | I 've been up since six . ’ |
| 13 | No , he 'll be out went out at ten to seven but over a sort of I 've been up since seven , I 've not really sat down all day . |
| 14 | I 've been up since half past seven . |
| 15 | ‘ I 've been here for six months . ’ |
| 16 | She said , ‘ I 've been here for three weeks , I have n't seen one movie star until now , ’ and she came over and got my autograph . |
| 17 | Well , Jim , I 've been here for three years , and no real food from that day to this . |
| 18 | I 've been here for some time . |
| 19 | I 've been on to this morning , asked me to and they have got thirty palettes there at the moment . |
| 20 | But he added : ‘ I 've been around for 30-odd years so I 'd like to it was down to all my TV work . |
| 21 | Er , I 've been now for six and a half years , I think , at the last count , er , I know I 've served just over half my sentence . |
| 22 | Yes er what what er the pitch I think in fact I 've heard them say this er because I 've been out with two of the top fliers up here |
| 23 | I 've been out for five days ? ’ he demanded incredulously . |
| 24 | I 've been out , I 've been out since half seven this morning well |
| 25 | ‘ This is the first time I 've been back in eight years , ’ says Brenda , who is at the Glasgow Royal Concert Hall tonight and the Playhouse , Edinburgh , tomorrow . |
| 26 | I 've been off for three or four time before for long a few years and |
| 27 | Yes I have been here until 1.00 a.m. or 2.00 a.m. in the morning when they have the gigs . |
| 28 | ‘ I have been most of all impressed by the contention that removal to such an area would be damaging to the morale of journalists . ’ |
| 29 | I have been around to all of them , most of the shops in the town and we will be patrolling all the time . |
| 30 | I have been around to all of them , most of the shops in the town and we will be patrolling all the time . |