Example sentences of "[pers pn] have been [verb] [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I would actually like to know your answer to this question , since I have been discussing with one or two other people whether one could hope to persuade Regional Railways to introduce a cheap fare for small groups of people , say on winter weekdays on quiet lines like the Central Wales and the Cambrian Coast . |
| 2 | He says I have been flying for four years . |
| 3 | I have been flying for twenty years and doing aerobatics for ten years , having been taught to fly by my celebrated husband Tim , of Nealey Air Shows , in Chicago . |
| 4 | The trouble is my boyfriend , with whom I have been living for six months , thinks I should use the money to pay off our overdraft . |
| 5 | I have been moved on two or three thousand times in the last few years |
| 6 | I have been talking to one or two members of s staff at a fairly low level over the last week . |
| 7 | Erm , are now in the process of following up to see if who has made er the switch to the new regime , and I have been approached by one project leader who has two programmers who refused to change , and has asked for help . |
| 8 | ‘ I have been going for 18 years and you get fan-tastic value for money , ’ he said . |
| 9 | McNeill said : ‘ I have been waiting for two days for this supposed written offer . |
| 10 | Since giving up work to start my family , I have been working on two books — a novel and a cookery book related to my former job ( I was a home economist ) . |
| 11 | In France , where I have been working for two years , the government understands the need for cultural things . |
| 12 | ‘ I have been working for 19 months and was on the dole for five years before that , ’ he said . |
| 13 | You are entitled to a written statement of the reasons for your dismissal if you have been employed for two years or more . |
| 14 | For example , if you have been employed for four years and earn a basic salary of £40,000 , one hardly need emphasise the difference between the value of your rights if you are eligible just for the statutory minimum of four weeks ' notice and the scale of your claim if you are on , say , a three-year rolling contract . |
| 15 | • AA Hospital Plus provides full insurance cover for pre-existing medical conditions , once you have been covered for two years without a recurrence . |
| 16 | Additionally , if you have received treatment or advice for a medical condition during the 2 years before taking up the Hospital Income Plan , your cover for the condition commences after you have been insured for 24 months or if you are admitted to hospital for that condition during this period then as soon after the 24 months as you have been free of in-patient treatment for 12 months . |
| 17 | Imagine that you have been studying for 20 years for a qualification that will change your life , or waiting the same length of time to hear about a job you have applied for , the only job you have ever really wanted . |
| 18 | I do hope the members will recognise that the service has not be sitting on its laurels er between inspectors ' reports but that we have been modelling on one quarterly to er correct any omissions with respect to boundary or to make the necessary improvements in the service erm as , as recommended by the inspect and supported by members . |
| 19 | ‘ Considering that we have been looking at 30,000 job losses a year recently , this could be the worst year ever . |
| 20 | ‘ What is the true financial cost to the public of this deal , and why we have been deceived for 16 months ? ’ |
| 21 | Certainly that was Donat 's experience , writing from the set of Perfect Strangers ( 1945 ) : ‘ No script to go on — just a mass of blarney from A. K. Our first complete script arrived five days ago — we have been filming for sixteen weeks ! |
| 22 | Keeping costs under control , managing our finances well and maintaining innovation in our sales approach are just three examples from a number that illustrate how , as a Division , we have been preparing for 1993 . |
| 23 | We have been negotiating for eight years with the Faroese authorities in an effort to get them to stop , without success . |
| 24 | These hams are from Chippenham in Wiltshire , where they have been prepared since 1781 . |
| 25 | At present the statement must be given no later than 13 weeks after employment commences , but part-time workers who work less than 16 hours a week need not be given a statement until they have been employed for five years and worked eight hours or more a week . |
| 26 | They have been seen in 1981 and 1990/91 . |
| 27 | A The law allows any couple to seek a divorce on the grounds of the irretrievable breakdown of marriage once they have been separated for two years . |
| 28 | ‘ I do not wish to be hard upon poor people in great affliction ; but I can not help thinking that they have been doing for hundreds of years past something very like what the Bible calls ‘ tempting God' ’ — staking their property and their lives upon the chances or no earthquakes coming , while they ought to have known that an earthquake might come an day . ’ |
| 29 | 2.5 Whilst the foregoing factors have created the need for more language teachers — teachers , moreover , who have been trained to cope with new challenges — the supply has been falling , to the point where they have been labelled in one study ‘ an endangered species ’ . |
| 30 | In England sea urchins are especially easy to collect from the Cretaceous chalk , where they have been used as one of the fossils for dating the rocks . |