Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [be] [adv prt] [prep] [num] " in BNC.

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1 I 've been up since six . ’
2 No , he 'll be out went out at ten to seven but over a sort of I 've been up since seven , I 've not really sat down all day .
3 Yes er what what er the pitch I think in fact I 've heard them say this er because I 've been out with two of the top fliers up here
4 I 've been out for five days ? ’ he demanded incredulously .
5 ‘ This is the first time I 've been back in eight years , ’ says Brenda , who is at the Glasgow Royal Concert Hall tonight and the Playhouse , Edinburgh , tomorrow .
6 I 've been off for three or four time before for long a few years and
7 She had been up since six , but respect for the Shills ' privacy had made her refrain from enquiring until 9.30 .
8 She had been up for five hours .
9 She had been out for three hours in the same seas , searching the rocky coastline off St Abbs Head .
10 She 's been up since six and he is up
11 ‘ I daresay she 's been up since three , being horsey . ’ )
12 Myra Hindley has been in prison for my whole life : I 'm twenty-two now and she 's been in for twenty-two years .
13 Women out if anything , we se the first book we read was back in seventeen hundred
14 We 've been in at five past eight , we 've been in past eight .
15 We 've been in at five past eight , we 've been in past eight .
16 Researchers at Leicester University are monitoring 400 water sports enthusiasts , who they believe are up to three times more likely to suffer viral disorders than the rest of the population .
17 They 've been out for fifteen minutes .
18 That is just called pentate it is not called E M penta any more equally you do n't have sec butile alcohol turk turt butile alcohol they 've been out for ten years !
19 By which time the tenants have come home from work or they 've been out for a few hours , say they 've been out from twelve till six .
20 They continued their research , but their reports were no longer published ( as they had been up to 1948 ) ; and , at a time when cost research was more clearly needed than ever before , Schiller 's team was starved of funds and talent .
21 They have been out for fifteen minutes .
22 It has been up to nine or ten pound for
23 Bill Wood of Durham called about it , desisted from hurling it in this direction and merely gave the fascinating information that it has been about for 1,500 years and started off in Anglo Saxon as sacleas , meaning ‘ without strife ’ .
24 Yeah cos if it was as bad as he said it was , I mean he would only stand up for one or two hours at a time , whereas he 'd been up since nine , he was still sitting up at one o'clock when I arrived there
25 He 'd been up since six trying to fix his motorbike .
26 The problem of the cut-off water supply — it had been off since eight that morning — had made it much worse .
27 It was hard not to think of life as it had been back in 1986 , or in Terry 's and Tom 's case , 1985 .
28 He had been up since five to meet the boat from which he was being exploited .
29 Although it 's been around since 1985 you could hardly describe it as one of the top-selling DOS word processors .
30 Well if th if there 's somebody whose listening in the Derby area who can help us with a street lamp that 's out and it 's rather important that it get put on , and it 's been out for six weeks now
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