Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [be] [adv] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd been away after that before I came to the electricity works here . |
| 2 | The nationality rule was a beautiful get-out for them , but I only had a few months to go before I 'd been here for ten years and would have been entitled to fight for the title . |
| 3 | And I 'd been there from six in the morning till quarter to nine . |
| 4 | ‘ But I 'd been home for two hours when Silvia got back . |
| 5 | The problems with these I think are principally of two kinds . |
| 6 | What I said was specifically about particular features described individually in the novel . |
| 7 | Earlier in the month I had been strongly against any idea of coalition … |
| 8 | I 've been away for 10 years now and I 've been doing good work and making the right decisions about the work I do . |
| 9 | Well , I 've been away for three , well th the winters are n't as hard now as they used to be . |
| 10 | To be able just to walk , or drive , wherever you want ; Christ , I 've been away from all this for less than a week and I feel like somebody coming out after thirty years . |
| 11 | ‘ I 've been here for six months . ’ |
| 12 | She said , ‘ I 've been here for three weeks , I have n't seen one movie star until now , ’ and she came over and got my autograph . |
| 13 | Well , Jim , I 've been here for three years , and no real food from that day to this . |
| 14 | I 've been here for some time . |
| 15 | Er , I 've been now for six and a half years , I think , at the last count , er , I know I 've served just over half my sentence . |
| 16 | Yes I have been here until 1.00 a.m. or 2.00 a.m. in the morning when they have the gigs . |
| 17 | ‘ I have been most of all impressed by the contention that removal to such an area would be damaging to the morale of journalists . ’ |
| 18 | She has been there for two years . |
| 19 | You got half an hour plus ten minutes relief for your refreshments and that would happen at ten in the morning and you 'd been there since seven . |
| 20 | I mean , you were n't even sure she 'd been there at all . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ So you 've been here for two years , ’ teased Tony as she looked for her key and opened the door , ‘ and still no boyfriend ? ’ |
| 22 | One of the , the tasks I have to do in May each year , is I write to the candidates who 've just taken a year off , who 've been away for the last two-thirds of a year , and I write to them and say , ‘ You 've been away for two-thirds of a year . |
| 23 | You 've been away from active duty for a while , have n't you ? ’ |
| 24 | ‘ Back home in Australia , you can play for my university there , Queensland , for ever , so long as you 've been there at some time . |
| 25 | The girl had been missing for what — a week ? — and off-hand he agreed with the local man 's judgement that she had been here for most of it . |
| 26 | She had been here for twenty minutes , during which time Alida Thorne had backtracked and made difficulties , pretended not to understand . |
| 27 | Cassie shivered as she contemplated the knowledge that she had been here in this kitchen once before … or as near as made no difference . |
| 28 | She had been seriously into pink for a year ; Victoria indulged her with delight and stifled the protests of her own aesthetic sense . |
| 29 | You can establish a much deeper contact with a partner through much of this year and , if you have been passion-less for some time , be prepared for things to change considerably . |
| 30 | Nobody 's gon na tell if she 's been here since five . |