Example sentences of "[adv] [pers pn] have [been] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If only I 'd been 10 years of age again , I 'd have loved the ‘ Pirates Club ’ . |
| 2 | It is natural that parents , and mothers in particular , should feel sadness and a sense of bereavement , whether or not they have been full-time housewives and mothers . |
| 3 | Traditionally it has been common practice for schools to seek to maintain discipline and control misbehaviour via the exertion of authority and the employment of sanctions as punishments . |
| 4 | ‘ So far we have been very trade oriented in our advertising , ’ said . |
| 5 | And how quick it had been this time ! |
| 6 | to do these at home I said well it had been twenty hours or nothing cos me and my old man do n't speak ! |
| 7 | Latterly he has been Fast Reactor Director . |
| 8 | She had immediately closed her mind to all thought , not even realising how tightly she had been gripping fitzAlan 's hand . |
| 9 | Two days earlier he had been driving troop carriers at Kuchino , one of the KGB 's training centres outside Moscow , and now he 'd been asked to drive for General Benin no less . |
| 10 | Then it had been Roman revenge against an uprising — but the seizure and detonation of an Israeli atomic bomb by terrorists had made a second holocaust of the land that once was known as Holy . |
| 11 | Since then it 's been tough going . |
| 12 | Since then it has been many times re-invented and used for 3D picture postcards . |
| 13 | Since then it has been three times enlarged , in width , length and depth . |
| 14 | But then he 's been burning gold every few days for ten years . |
| 15 | Everywhere it has been high fashion to emphasise the importance of ‘ managing change ’ . |
| 16 | Indeed it has been proposed thatany increase in permeability in patients with inflammatory bowel disease results from polymorphonuclear transmigration through the intestinal mucosa . |
| 17 | Steven thinks that just be I only just got in he said , I 'm having my tea and he said there 's no way I 'm gon na do nothing like that at this time of night when I 've been fourteen hours at work So then he stormed off back home again so he said well you 'll have to move it cos it 's obstructing the dual carriageway someone might come round that corner fast and hit it . |
| 18 | When I get back Lucker wonders where I have been all night . |
| 19 | God knows where she 'd been last night . ’ |
| 20 | For Soho was where she had been last evening , wondering what to do and where to go to fill the time ; there , in Shaftesbury Avenue , she had seen Lucinda and the airmen . |
| 21 | Go on , ask her where she 's been all afternoon , dressed up like a tart and missing for bloody hours . |
| 22 | And Lucy called her in the morning , swept away all doubts with a rush of enthusiasm about the exhibition , and only when they 'd hung up did Jay realise that she had n't given her a date , a time ; that she — they ? — were just where they 'd been five months before . |
| 23 | In 1985 councillors spent an average of seventy-four hours a month on their duties , a slight decrease on 1976 when it had been seventy-nine hours ( Widdicombe 1986 : 126 ) . |
| 24 | ‘ And that 's where he had been this time ? ’ |
| 25 | JIM WISE , NDO for Credit Accumulation and Transfer , has been seconded from Napier Polytechnic of Edinburgh where he has been Senior Lecturer in the Department of Mathematics since 1981 . |