Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] have be [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Where I 've been for the past 200 years or so , we count ourselves lucky if we still have one . ’ |
| 2 | To comfort her desolation and guilt Rachel had told her about the Mongolian desert , where she had been as a little girl , hardly older than Maggie was now , to look for dragons , which she called dinosaurs , and where years later Russian palaeontologists had found the great fossil eggs in which the sleeping baby dinosaurs could still be seen . |
| 3 | John Parke writes It was a sad day when the news came some two years ago that Ann Hoare was suffering from cancer and that she had taken early retirement from her post as assistant manager of Exeter University Bookshop , where she had been on the staff since it opened . |
| 4 | Will the Italian Abbado remain musical director of the Vienna State Opera where he has been for the past three years ? |
| 5 | Television came in the wake of other consumer durables : a vacuum cleaner and a boiler for the washing — once used to cook a lobster my father has brought back from the Highlands where he 's been on a spell of painting stations that will be closed by the Beeching plan a decade later . |
| 6 | To forecast where the economy is heading , economists need information on where it is now , and where it has been in the recent past . |
| 7 | Although I had been under no real illusions that an amazing secret would suddenly be revealed , I was nevertheless disappointed that my theories had proved to be groundless . |
| 8 | There are traps you can fall into if you do too much television — although I 've been on a lot since '89 , I do tend to turn most things down . |
| 9 | ‘ I 'm better than I 've been for a long time . ’ |
| 10 | But I 'm in better shape than I have been for a long time . ’ |
| 11 | Now it is three months ’ rest and come the start of the 1991 season I 'll be ready to go again , more confident than I have been for a long time . |
| 12 | I 'm more optimistic than I have been for the past few years . ’ |
| 13 | She had no wish to hurt Anna and besides , how could she complain when the truth was that she was happier here at the palazzo than she 'd been in a long time ? |
| 14 | He too wanted to talk to her about the attack , but found her far less ready to talk to him than she had been to the woman from the gipsy encampment . |
| 15 | England was something like a nation by the closing stages of the Hundred Years War with France in the mid-fifteenth century , and France was certainly much more like a nation at the end of the war than she had been at the beginning . |
| 16 | I did n't think she was ever going to be as appealing as Frances , but I hoped that by the end of the book she would be a little more appealing than she had been at the beginning . ’ |
| 17 | She left a little while later , happier than she had been for a long time . |
| 18 | For some reason she was more stricken by the loss of the letters than she had been by the news of John 's and Angela 's deaths . |
| 19 | I mean obviously once she 's been through the learning process herself , so Doug came away feeling quite pleased that he 'd made that contact and he also sort of made one or two , he , he had one or two wise observations I think about the evening , he made one or two new contacts himself and the suggestion and things , he spoke very well about it , at our committee on our last meeting last week |
| 20 | Once you had been through the three years what did you find had developed most for you as an actor ? |
| 21 | Once you have been through the various categories listed above and picked out all the names to be included next step is to arrange them in some sort of order . |
| 22 | Right and also comments and suggestions although we 've been in the business for a number of years , er comments and suggestions are always er welcomed and and and considered very carefully . |
| 23 | Although we had been in the land of constant daylight for several days , the sun had been hidden for much of the time by high cloud . |
| 24 | Geraldine had lost both her parents the year before , so we 've been through a lot of the same feelings . |
| 25 | ‘ When once we 've been to a place , we 're liked . |
| 26 | There is less scorn in the novel than there had been in the article , and a pity that must have come as surprise to readers of his work . |
| 27 | As one settlement worker remarked , while the after-care committees provided ‘ many more opportunities for direct personal service than there had been in the past ’ , the exchange system brought the home visitors and the club managers into the ‘ industrial side ’ and , therefore , united the social and industrial welfare of adolescents . |
| 28 | The economic crisis following the Black Death had undoubtedly given men of enterprise the opportunity to better their condition , and there was probably more mobility of population in the fifteenth century than there had been in the thirteenth . |
| 29 | I mean th th th the clan links in the south were much stronger than they were in the north , and therefore there might be even greater commercial landlord opposition to land reform than there had been in the north . |
| 30 | There was never a more astonishing Revolution accomplished in the internal system of any country than there has been within the compass of a few years in that of England … |