Example sentences of "[adv] [pers pn] have [be] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps I have been over enthusiastic about this project , but there was something about the schools I visited , and I am no stranger to African primary schools , which seemed to me to provide a recipe for steady progress . |
| 2 | Apparently she 's been off all week . |
| 3 | Okay and finally erm are London boroughs erm yeah blank blank , eighty six election and the next London borough elections will be in nineteen ninety four so they 've been in nineteen eighty six , nineteen ninety and nineteen , they will next be in nineteen ninety four . |
| 4 | So he 's been for two years . |
| 5 | So he 's been in that 's just about a year and a half now . |
| 6 | So it has been with other countries of immigration — the immigrants embraced a new nationality with , if the nationalist fictions are to be believed , unseemly eagerness . |
| 7 | Now of course it would depend very much on and whether you were in a drought situation as we were until last year or whether it 's like we 've been over this last summer and early winter which is that virtually not a day has passed without we 've had some rain , in which case obviously the roof is going to get cleaned up very much quicker but I have to say that although I 've always been under the impression that it 's not a good idea to save water off a new felt roof er because of deposits that come off the mineral felt . |
| 8 | Her husband , Stuart , 52 , said yesterday he had been in daily contact with her since she flew to Canada last month on the second pilgrimage to find her son . |
| 9 | Well , now I 've been past many a field of hay but it does n't smell like it used to in my young days . |
| 10 | Now I have been in this business for a long time , and I was at that conference , and I have to say that I had forgotten the resolution until I was reading things again in preparing for this talk . |
| 11 | Now we 've been to these meetings , and there 's a lot of airy-fairy words about yes we support parishes . |
| 12 | Well I 've been in eighteen below zero |
| 13 | amazed I actually did erm what happened erm I was happened to be upstairs and my wife shouted quick quick there 's a zither , so I zoomed down here and the lady was still talking to you and a dialled well consequently I did n't get through for quite some time but I did eventually , erm your lady on the reception said well it 's gone now she said but I will give the lady 's telephone number and I spoke to the lady and told her the position and she says well if it 's not collected by so time I 'll g ring you back and I said well I 've been after one for a long long time she said well I ca n't understand it cos I 've been advertising it . |
| 14 | Well she had been on one or two things , not a lot on the television but er , we . |
| 15 | And it 's er er we go to Ffestiniog power station to have a drink and then come to er er well we 've been at Royal Hotel at Betsy-Coed these last years or two . |
| 16 | The Royalists ( Chetniks ) under Mihailovitch had played a major part in anti-German resistance through much of the war , although increasingly they had been in direct conflict with Tito 's partisans , who saw them as the main enemy in establishing a Communist post-war Yugoslavia , and this had also led to them acting on occasion in concert with German forces . |
| 17 | Er Eric and I know fully we 've been through that , fingers crossed behind our backs . |
| 18 | Maybe they had been for old times the old times that had never really existed . |
| 19 | Since then they have been on active duty in Aden , Persian Gulf , Malaya , Borneo , Northern Ireland , and Operation Desert Storm in the Gulf . |
| 20 | ‘ Time and again we 've been through all that . |