Example sentences of "[adv] have [pers pn] [be] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ How long has she been like that ? ’ |
| 2 | ‘ How long has he been like this ? ’ |
| 3 | How long had it been like this , untouched by people , gradually decaying and changing with the wind and the weather ? |
| 4 | So how long have you been at these particular premises ? |
| 5 | ‘ How long have you been with this company ? ’ |
| 6 | And how long have you been in these particular premises ? |
| 7 | ‘ How long have you been in this field ? ’ |
| 8 | ‘ How long have you been in this job ? ’ |
| 9 | ‘ How long have you been like this ? ’ |
| 10 | ‘ How long have I been like this ? ’ she asked in one interval . |
| 11 | So have you been in this business before ? |
| 12 | Of course I would have enjoyed the occasion much more had I been in better shape , but in the event it all went better than I had dared hope even if I was near to passing out at times . |
| 13 | He had expected her back by midnight at the latest , judging by the phone call and the length of the concert , so where had she been until two in the morning ? |
| 14 | Where had I been before that ? |
| 15 | Most of them were simply informative , one or two pitying ( everybody knows about the phenomenon and where have you been since 1605 , when Francis Bacon discovered the flashes ? ) and a few offering the hospitality of the nearest dark cupboard . |