Example sentences of "[pron] have been [adv] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd been away after that before I came to the electricity works here . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | And I 'd been there from six in the morning till quarter to nine . |
| 4 | ‘ But I 'd been home for two hours when Silvia got back . |
| 5 | Earlier in the month I had been strongly against any idea of coalition … |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Well , I 've been away for three , well th the winters are n't as hard now as they used to be . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ I 've been here for six months . ’ |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Well , Jim , I 've been here for three years , and no real food from that day to this . |
| 12 | I 've been here for some time . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Yes I have been here until 1.00 a.m. or 2.00 a.m. in the morning when they have the gigs . |
| 15 | ‘ I have been most of all impressed by the contention that removal to such an area would be damaging to the morale of journalists . ’ |
| 16 | Someone 's been right through that wall there , look . |
| 17 | The Christian may be in a church which has been together for several hundred years , and so he knows there is a certain likelihood of it still being together next year ! |
| 18 | Its profits record , which has been far from outstanding , suggests that it is wrong . |
| 19 | The average thermal efficiency of French steam power stations , which had been well below that in Britain initially , was to overtake it in the later 1950s , as the more advanced French sets were commissioned ; and France caught up with American levels of thermal efficiency , while Britain remained behind . |
| 20 | Sinead had a hard time at school because she was a newcomer in a class which had been together for two years , and some of her fellow pupils knew her recent history . |
| 21 | ‘ I ca n't begin to say what I think about these people who stole the plaque and the names of the servicemen which had been there for forty-eight years . ’ |
| 22 | I bet nobody 's been there at all . |
| 23 | Val Pinder who has been away for some months due to illness achieves a fantastic level of sales and came in fourth . |
| 24 | Mature Student was defined as someone who has been away from continuous education for more than one year . |
| 25 | The June 5 announcement that Foreign Minister Ghozali was to be the new Prime Minister prompted favourable international press comment ; Tehran radio said that he was " recognized by the Islamists as someone who has been away from domestic confrontation " . |
| 26 | Two long-serving ministers , Dr Brian Mawhinney , who has been there since 1986 , and Mr Richard Needham , since 1985 , both return to senior posts in mainland ministries . |
| 27 | She has been there for two years . |
| 28 | You got half an hour plus ten minutes relief for your refreshments and that would happen at ten in the morning and you 'd been there since seven . |
| 29 | I mean , you were n't even sure she 'd been there at all . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ So you 've been here for two years , ’ teased Tony as she looked for her key and opened the door , ‘ and still no boyfriend ? ’ |