Example sentences of "[pron] have been [adv] a [det] " 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 | ‘ I 've been here a few times , ’ he admitted . |
| 4 | " Oh I 've been 'ere a few times and I 've heard some bleedin' awful screams comin' out of that room . |
| 5 | The thing is I 've been out a few times with my husband cos it 's his car . |
| 6 | Well no , er I 've been there a few times . |
| 7 | Erm what are the kind o obviously you 've been here a few months . |
| 8 | ‘ It 's just that you 've been out a few times this morning . ’ |
| 9 | She had been there a few times throughout the week but Busacher frequently forgot her . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | You know , we 'll so we 've been quite a few times since , but I can not think of the name of it . |
| 12 | There had been quite a few successful ones , however . |
| 13 | ‘ There have been quite a few calls from readers … |
| 14 | There have been quite a few changes in the Magazine Team over the past year . |
| 15 | There have been quite a few . |
| 16 | Ther there have been quite a few that have come out recently which I have n't briefed . |
| 17 | There have been quite a few happenings since then , but my fingers are getting tired , so I 'll save them for another article . |
| 18 | There have been only a few exceptions to this general rule . |
| 19 | Moving further north , the United States has rather fewer volcanoes , and although there are some impressive cones such as those of Mt Shasta and Mt Rainier , both over 4,000 metres high , there have been only a few minor eruptions in historic times . |
| 20 | There have been only a few empirical studies of the relationship between volume and maturity . |
| 21 | Since J. C. Wells 's research on the phonological adaptations made by Jamaicans who had lived for a period in London ( Wells 1973 ) , there have been only a few detailed studies of the language of Caribbeans in Britain in spite of a good deal of interest in all aspects of Britain 's black population . |
| 22 | Not , not a lot at the moment , I do n't think , erm , the end of July erm there was eight hundred and something , but there 's been quite a few bills that have come out of it although that does n't include the two receipts that Maisie has just given me which is about a hundred and eighty , so that 's nearly another two hundred in , but we 're alright , we 're . |
| 23 | He told me proudly how he 'd been there a few times in the past . |
| 24 | It had been only a few hours , but that was enough to ensure that birthdays would always fall on public holidays and the correct number of hours could therefore be spent languishing . |
| 25 | He had been there a few weeks , suffering most of the time from frostbite after thirty hours in a dinghy in the Atlantic . |
| 26 | ‘ He 's been here a few times . ’ |