Example sentences of "[pron] have 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 | The thing is I 've been out a few times with my husband cos it 's his car . |
| 8 | Well no , er I 've been there a few times . |
| 9 | I have been here a long time . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | And that 's all I 've got to report which has been quite a busy month . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | ‘ She has been here a long time and will be here for even longer , ’ Felipe answered smoothly . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 |
| 18 | ‘ You 've been here a long while , have n't you , Raech ? |
| 19 | Erm what are the kind o obviously you 've been here a few months . |
| 20 | You 've been away a long time have n't you ? |
| 21 | At least I do n't mean that — not a good show for you , I know — but frankly when you 've been down a long time it is a good show to see someone from home and get all the news . |
| 22 | ‘ It 's just that you 've been out a few times this morning . ’ |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | She had been there a few times throughout the week but Busacher frequently forgot her . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | This was the lake that we were going to spend our time on and although these lakes had n't been fished much we did have the benefit of some information given to us by Joe Taylor who had been out a few weeks prior to us . |
| 29 | ‘ You have been here a long time , masters . |
| 30 | And she 's been away a long time for one of our ships — ever since June . |