Example sentences of "[pers pn] have been [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 | We 've been in at five past eight , we 've been in past eight . |
14 | We 've been in at five past eight , we 've been in past eight . |
15 | They 've been out for fifteen minutes . |
16 | 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 ! |
17 | 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 . |
18 | 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 . |
19 | They have been out for fifteen minutes . |
20 | It has been up to nine or ten pound for |
21 | 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 ’ . |
22 | 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 |
23 | He 'd been up since six trying to fix his motorbike . |
24 | The problem of the cut-off water supply — it had been off since eight that morning — had made it much worse . |
25 | It was hard not to think of life as it had been back in 1986 , or in Terry 's and Tom 's case , 1985 . |
26 | He had been up since five to meet the boat from which he was being exploited . |
27 | Although it 's been around since 1985 you could hardly describe it as one of the top-selling DOS word processors . |
28 | 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 |
29 | Jackie said he 's been up for seven o'clock . |
30 | Even though he 's been up since six at his job in the City and is absolutely starving , the Hooray must wait until 10.30pm and then ‘ gair-airt-dinner ’ or ‘ gair-fair-n-Indi ’ . |