Example sentences of "[pron] have been [adv prt] [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've been up since six . ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 |
| 4 | I 've been out for five days ? ’ he demanded incredulously . |
| 5 | ‘ 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 . |
| 6 | I 've been off for three or four time before for long a few years and |
| 7 | A woman of 40 came with digestive disturbance which had been around for twenty years and which had been ameliorated but not cured by previous homœopathic treatment . |
| 8 | But no matter , and who am I to complain , certainly not to Jan , the lady of the maggots , who has been up since four and already whisked through acres of office carpet , scads of bins and oceans of scummy cups . |
| 9 | I was n't afraid of losing my boyfriend while I was in prison , because I 've seen people who 've been in for two years and their boyfriends still come and see them . |
| 10 | She had been up since six , but respect for the Shills ' privacy had made her refrain from enquiring until 9.30 . |
| 11 | She had been up for five hours . |
| 12 | She had been out for three hours in the same seas , searching the rocky coastline off St Abbs Head . |
| 13 | She 's been up since six and he is up |
| 14 | ‘ I daresay she 's been up since three , being horsey . ’ ) |
| 15 | Myra Hindley has been in prison for my whole life : I 'm twenty-two now and she 's been in for twenty-two years . |
| 16 | Irvine , California-based Pick Systems in its umpteenth resurgence has rehired two of its old lieutenants : Richard Lauer , who 's been off for six years at Sequoia Computer Systems Inc , returns as vice president , sales and Tim Holland , credited with many of Pick 's technical developments , returns from stints at Sequoia and Concurrent Computer Corp to be senior vice president , technology . |
| 17 | Pick Systems in its umpteenth resurgence has rehired two of its old lieutenants : Richard Lauer , who 's been off for six years at Sequoia Computer Systems Inc , returns as vice president , sales and Tim Holland , credited with many of Pick 's technical developments , returns from stints at Sequoia and Concurrent Computer Corp to be senior vice president , technology . |
| 18 | We 've been in at five past eight , we 've been in past eight . |
| 19 | We 've been in at five past eight , we 've been in past eight . |
| 20 | They 've been out for fifteen minutes . |
| 21 | That is just called pentate it is not called E M penta any more equally you do n't have sec butile alcohol turk turt butile alcohol they 've been out for ten years ! |
| 22 | By which time the tenants have come home from work or they 've been out for a few hours , say they 've been out from twelve till six . |
| 23 | They continued their research , but their reports were no longer published ( as they had been up to 1948 ) ; and , at a time when cost research was more clearly needed than ever before , Schiller 's team was starved of funds and talent . |
| 24 | They have been out for fifteen minutes . |
| 25 | It has been up to nine or ten pound for |
| 26 | Bill Wood of Durham called about it , desisted from hurling it in this direction and merely gave the fascinating information that it has been about for 1,500 years and started off in Anglo Saxon as sacleas , meaning ‘ without strife ’ . |
| 27 | Yeah cos if it was as bad as he said it was , I mean he would only stand up for one or two hours at a time , whereas he 'd been up since nine , he was still sitting up at one o'clock when I arrived there |
| 28 | He 'd been up since six trying to fix his motorbike . |
| 29 | The problem of the cut-off water supply — it had been off since eight that morning — had made it much worse . |
| 30 | It was hard not to think of life as it had been back in 1986 , or in Terry 's and Tom 's case , 1985 . |