Example sentences of "[subord] [noun] have been [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cos car 's been here since Saturday . |
| 2 | She spoke as if Ruth had been away on holiday and must therefore have abounding strength and energy . |
| 3 | Hoomey thought it very weird , and longed to discuss it with somebody , but dare n't , not even to ask Gary if Nails had been away at night . |
| 4 | ‘ He was wanting to know if Philip had been up in Mr Hyde 's woods . ’ |
| 5 | Even if Cherith had been genuinely in love with me , how long do you thing we 'd have stayed together ? |
| 6 | It did n't look as if Hatton had been up to much on that Monday morning in Leeds , but you never knew . |
| 7 | Perhaps , she thought it was because Mark had been there at the planning stage — Mark Bristow , the dynamic young advertising executive she had met and fallen in love with when she had been chasing jobs in the heart of Somerset ; Mark who , in spite of being English , had lived long enough in the States to absorb — and give off — some of the typically American blend of enthusiasm and energy . |
| 8 | Mind you they have done a bit more to it since Wiggie 's been there in as much as she 's had a big curtain put across |
| 9 | He 's been very helpful to you since Joanna has been out of action . ’ |
| 10 | But she did say on one occasion , after Cassie had been home for about two days : ‘ How 's that nice young man we met , Cassie ? |
| 11 | The only certainty was that it was not Brian , for Brian had been away during that crucial week of Tina 's cycle , doing an electrical job in Aberdeen . |
| 12 | Only when Guy had been still for several minutes did she cross to the bench and set the pail down . |
| 13 | When Lorton had been here in the summer , the car park was nearly full . |
| 14 | Rothermere was in favour of Beaverbrook himself , and Hailsham and Robert Horne ( a surprising revival as lie had been out of office since the Coalition ) also emerged as occasional possibilities ; pace 1923 , no one seemed inclined to disqualify peers . |