Example sentences of "[pron] have [be] [noun] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 're finger-printing guys who 've been bedridden for years . |
| 2 | " She 's been head over heals in love with you for ages , " said Lady Agatha impatiently . |
| 3 | There was an immediate rapport , as if we 'd been friends for years , and that happens only rarely . |
| 4 | We 've been friends for years . |
| 5 | She 's a twenty-seven year-old female , just the same age as me , her name is Kelly Adam , she 's a television camerawoman , and we 've been friends for years . |
| 6 | There was often a special pride that the family were ‘ all in the trade ; ’ ‘ all my people have been in the dealing world ; ’ ‘ we 've been blacksmiths for generations ; ’ or they had been self-employed Portland quarrymen ‘ right back a hundred year back . ’ |
| 7 | We had been colleagues for years and , as I say , I was having difficulty focussing . |
| 8 | Cadmium can damage the kidneys , and there has been concern about levels of cadmium in the livers and kidneys of elks and deer in southern Sweden which have grazed on plants that have accumulated cadmium . |
| 9 | This point should be emphasized , because there has been debate among historians , particularly between M. M. Postan and K. B. McFarlane , about how far the war affected the total wealth of England . |
| 10 | Inevitably in this case there has been agreement on matters to do with regulation and standardisation ( the Capital Adequacy Directive ) , which though no doubt treated as a ‘ competition directive ’ is arguably restrictive of it . |
| 11 | One crucial communicating network would link the individual schools promoting particular languages in which there has been continuity in terms of staffing and tutor-groups over a number of years . |
| 12 | In the past there 'd been cases of children who were witches . |
| 13 | A hundred years ago they might have made sense , due to ignorance : like the child said , there 'd been talk of witches . |
| 14 | In some cases she suggested that there had been coalescence of settlements , with the abandonment of the earlier pattern of hamlets and combining of lands and holdings . |
| 15 | Many of the accidents were foreseen , there had been warnings about fires in Tubes , how quickly ferries sank , and the hazards at football grounds . |
| 16 | But here it is epigraphy which has added most strikingly to our knowledge : as early as Herodotus ' day there had been Persians with names like Megabates at Halikarnassus ( ML 32 ) , and new inscriptions from fourth-century Labraunda , a sanctuary in Persian-held Karia , attest the Iranian proper names Phrathethnes and Ariarames ( Inscriptions of Labraunda 77 ; 28 ) . |
| 17 | This was one of the voyages in which the men of science were in charge , in that the point of the expedition was scientific ; often there had been frustration among scientists on voyages because the captain 's instructions , or his interpretation of them , did not let him stay at interesting places as long as they would have liked , or put enough boats and crews at their disposal . |
| 18 | Suffolk Wildlife Trust director Derek Moore said there had been reports of rabbits and other creatures being shot at by four-wheel drive enthusiasts as the vehicles moved around the ness . |
| 19 | Substantial parts of the urban population were better off in material terms and there had been changes in attitudes . |
| 20 | Still , there had been unity of sorts . |
| 21 | All across Canada there had been outbursts of feelings against the way radio broadcasting had been handled , and one of these certainly came from the Moose Jaw area . |
| 22 | She remembered there had been fire in starbursts never seen before , and explosions of noise . |
| 23 | The recorded history of the country goes back 5000 years to the first known pharaohs ; and though for 2000 years there had been waves of invaders bringing one foreign ruler after another , for most of the peasants ( the fellahin ) life continued much as it had for centuries , regulated as much by the Nile and the miracle of its annual flood , as by successive new masters . |
| 24 | There had been rumours of redundancies . |
| 25 | There had been invasions by descendants of the deposed Stuarts in 1715 and in 1745 and , though neither had been successful , both of them had been rather alarming . |
| 26 | People said it was smoothed over , and that there had been adjustments of personnel in the agriculture department . |
| 27 | There had been talk of privatisations worth $16m ; in the event the take will be half that . |
| 28 | Potassium permanganate has the disadvantage of producing solid manganese dioxide during the process of oxidation which can cause blockages and importantly where any of the chlorinated oxidising agents are used care needs to be taken when phenolic contaminants are present as there have been instances of chlorophenols being formed which in turn produce most obnoxious odours sometimes toxic which are extremely difficult to break down . |
| 29 | This is a usually unconscious , and therefore very powerful , negative collusion between teaching centres who are anxious to fill places ( there have been instances of courses to train interpreters to below A level standard lasting six weeks ) , service providers who really do not understand the level and type of skills required and have no strategies to locate them and unqualified interpreters who feel their jobs are threatened . |
| 30 | Since then there have been instances concerning dollars held in London by Iran , contrasted with deposits held in the US which illustrate the point well . |