Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [been] [adv] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once I had been there a little while I really settled in and really enjoyed my primary school days . |
| 2 | No I 've been I 've been here a long time like |
| 3 | I have been here a long time . |
| 4 | ‘ She has been here a long time and will be here for even longer , ’ Felipe answered smoothly . |
| 5 | And wheeling them to the ship you know , then after you 'd been there a long time , well my father was a down below and I went to his shop then you see . |
| 6 | ‘ You 've been here a long while , have n't you , Raech ? |
| 7 | You 've been away a long time have n't you ? |
| 8 | At least I do n't mean that — not a good show for you , I know — but frankly when you 've been down a long time it is a good show to see someone from home and get all the news . |
| 9 | Though she had been quite a successful model herself Arlene had never reached those giddy heights — the thought that now a pupil and protégé of hers might achieve it made her prickle with excitement . |
| 10 | ‘ You have been here a long time , masters . |
| 11 | And she 's been away a long time for one of our ships — ever since June . |
| 12 | She 's been here a long time , of course , from Father Collins 's days . |
| 13 | She 's been here a long time , about ten years . |
| 14 | She 's been here a long time , on and off , she knows the place well . |
| 15 | Right very briefly , we 've been here a little while now , is erm we 're just gon na a little talk about the other aspects of what we call a defensive driving technique . |
| 16 | ‘ We 've been out a long while already . |
| 17 | We 've been together a long time and people in the band like Paul and Mark and Gaz have a few things to prove themselves . |
| 18 | " We 've been together a long time Her voice went thick and inarticulate . |
| 19 | So they 've been here a long long while . |
| 20 | Despite being so ubiquitous , until now they 've been solely a male preserve . |
| 21 | They 've been out a long time colleagues , seventeen weeks . |
| 22 | While they had been there the previous year there had been hardly any visitors . |
| 23 | ‘ The conduct of the workers is deplorable , ’ wrote a French mining manager in 1869 , in the process of ferociously repressing the sort of strike of which Zola 's Germinal has given us a vivid picture , ‘ but one must recognise that they have been merely the savage instruments of agitators ’ . |
| 24 | Traditionally , he has been rather a mysterious figure with most of the audience seeing only his back . |
| 25 | ‘ I only took a quick look , he 'd been dead a long time , it was n't nice , and yet — it looked like Uncle Mosse . ’ |
| 26 | She could remember the bra , it had been rather a good black lace wired Kayser Bondor , of a line that appeared to have been discontinued , as she 'd never been able to find another . |
| 27 | It had been rather an expensive one as he had gone for a fleecy-lined designer number with flashes of blue , to match his eyes , on the shoulders and down the legs . |
| 28 | She had told him how Karen had gone half stupid over Mallachy , when it had been just a one-night stand , a one-night stand that did not , in the event , come off . |
| 29 | But it had been just a momentary longing for something she seemed destined never to have . |
| 30 | 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 . |