Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] been [adv] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd been there a few months when me and a girl called Sue and a girl called Monica started playing silly devils , throwing things out of the hatch . |
| 2 | After I 'd been there a few months I was asked if I wanted to help out in the kitchen , which I did . |
| 3 | Once I had been there a little while I really settled in and really enjoyed my primary school days . |
| 4 | No I 've been I 've been here a long time like |
| 5 | ‘ I 've been here a few times , ’ he admitted . |
| 6 | " Oh I 've been 'ere a few times and I 've heard some bleedin' awful screams comin' out of that room . |
| 7 | Well no , er I 've been there a few times . |
| 8 | I have been here a long time . |
| 9 | THE government spent £48m on a computer system for the Training and Enterprise Councils which has been only a partial operational success , according to a report today by the National Audit Office . |
| 10 | And that 's all I 've got to report which has been quite a busy month . |
| 11 | At that time the settlement of Cape Town , which had been just a small staging post on the voyage between the Netherlands and the East Indies , was beginning to grow , but although the English had occupied the Cape in 1806 , the white population remained mainly Dutch until the arrival of many new settlers from Britain in 1820 . |
| 12 | ‘ She has been here a long time and will be here for even longer , ’ Felipe answered smoothly . |
| 13 | And wheeling them to the ship you know , then after you 'd been there a long time , well my father was a down below and I went to his shop then you see . |
| 14 | ‘ Even as a new MP , she has got a much better grounding in the way that the Treasury and Number 10 work than most MPs who 've been there a long time . ’ |
| 15 | It shows how well we are conducting the service , in what is an old bedding factory , after all , and if you 've been to Winchester lately , you will have seen a six million pound record office , with with modern architecture in a prominent position in Winchester , er , which I 'm sure they 're conducting a service , but I 'll bet you that pound for pound we 're giving a far better service in Wiltshire , with our dedicated staff , who 've been there a long time . |
| 16 | You always find wherever you are that the people who 've been there a long time get sort of erm a bit uppity , they think that they 're |
| 17 | ‘ You 've been here a long while , have n't you , Raech ? |
| 18 | Erm what are the kind o obviously you 've been here a few months . |
| 19 | You 've been away a long time have n't you ? |
| 20 | Though she had been quite a successful model herself Arlene had never reached those giddy heights — the thought that now a pupil and protégé of hers might achieve it made her prickle with excitement . |
| 21 | She had been there a few times throughout the week but Busacher frequently forgot her . |
| 22 | An example I quote is of two particular members of staff who had been there a long time , and so , when I walked into the staff room , they were in the same seats . |
| 23 | I I ca n't comment on on comments that you are referencing , however I will say that in Maryland er we displaced an incumbent vendor who had been there a long time , er that vendor was a bit upset as you might imagine with being displaced as a vendor , and in Maryland we had a situation that kind of evolved into the same kind of political row you would expect when a company loses a long time business . |
| 24 | Tamar sat and talked quietly , telling her Uncle about her life and about Victoria , who had been only a small child when he had last seen her . |
| 25 | ‘ You have been here a long time , masters . |
| 26 | And she 's been away a long time for one of our ships — ever since June . |
| 27 | She 's been here a long time , of course , from Father Collins 's days . |
| 28 | She 's been here a long time , about ten years . |
| 29 | She 's been here a long time , on and off , she knows the place well . |
| 30 | Right very briefly , we 've been here a little while now , is erm we 're just gon na a little talk about the other aspects of what we call a defensive driving technique . |