Example sentences of "[pers pn] have been [adv] [det] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She simply tells me something , as if I had been there all the time . |
| 2 | I 've been here all the time . |
| 3 | And I opened the door and let him in and he was telling me I 've been here half an hour trying to get in . |
| 4 | ( Oh , yes , and before you ask , I have been there many a time . |
| 5 | She was certain MacQuillan had not gone to the bar because she had been there all the time until then . |
| 6 | Well they sort of said that what , hopefully , she 'll like be there for a couple of days and she 'll never think she 's been anywhere else , she 'll think she 's been there all the time . |
| 7 | No I 'm only phoning you because you phoned I 'm only phoning because you ph yeah yeah no no we 've been here all the time and the phone did n't ring once well |
| 8 | ‘ Black people , although they 've been here such a long time , have n't assimilated into the business community , or education , as they have in America . |
| 9 | It was obvious that they had been outside all the time , probably in a van . |
| 10 | From there it has been downhill all the way . |
| 11 | Well , you never go in an unrealistic influencing situation , and er , the other one would have said , well , we 've had situations where it has been very much a line type decision . |
| 12 | From that point onward , it had been downhill all the way . |
| 13 | It had been there all the time hidden beneath the forced gaiety , the conversational duelling . |