Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] have [been] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Probably the only thing is obviously I 've been there a while now so any previous employment and the people that were there are n't there any longer . |
| 2 | Erm what are the kind o obviously you 've been here a few months . |
| 3 | So we 've been perhaps a little |
| 4 | You know , we 'll so we 've been quite a few times since , but I can not think of the name of it . |
| 5 | So they 've been here a long long while . |
| 6 | The sixth , published in 1752 and dedicated to the Earl of Northumberland , had an elaborate frontispiece ( hitherto it had been just a large formal garden with a plantation in the distance ) etched and engraved by Edward Rooker ( 1711–74 ) , after a drawing by Samuel Wade of an allegorical group showing Britannia receiving the fruits of the earth . |
| 7 | Despite being so ubiquitous , until now they 've been solely a male preserve . |
| 8 | Well it 's been quite a year overall , has n't it ? |
| 9 | Well it 's been there a long time . |
| 10 | Well he 's been there a long while . |
| 11 | From there it had been only a matter of time until he was given his own prison . |
| 12 | He told me proudly how he 'd been there a few times in the past . |
| 13 | Previously it 's been just a blank sheet of printing paper shut up in a lightproof envelope ; now it has a function , an image , a certainty . |
| 14 | Actually I 've been here a year . |
| 15 | And recently there 's been quite a lot of thin . |