Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] have been [adj] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I would remind you both , ’ said the abbot gently , ‘ that if she has been all this while consulting her own wishes , and imposing them upon us mortals , Saint Winifred is again on her own altar in our church . |
| 2 | If you had been any any where else on the hill you 'd have , would n't have a chance cos you could n't , you could n't follow the track that they they di they followed the day before . |
| 3 | If there 'd been any more trouble , we would just have drawn our staffs and knocked all hell out of them . |
| 4 | This was the first time they 'd been out together since the alleged phone-calls , and if there 'd been any more since then she had n't mentioned it . |
| 5 | See if it had been nice this Saturday we could 've gone and got the wheel back on the caravan but |
| 6 | If it had been another few inches either side it would have been my neck or my heart and I would be dead . |
| 7 | After all , he was a serving liaison officer between the CIA and the White House , even if he had been little more than a sleeper for several years . |
| 8 | Unless he 'd been asleep all the time ? |
| 9 | While there have been precious few literary models for black male writers to follow lately , there has been a boom in black women 's writing , particularly in the States , with the success of Alice Walker , Toni Morrison and now Terry Macmillan . |
| 10 | Perhaps they were too busy to feel queasy , but as far as I was concerned , before we had been airborne half an hour I felt like crying out , ‘ Stop the plane , I want to get off ! ’ |
| 11 | well after he 's been all this while . |
| 12 | She would be now , as she had been all that day , out praying for his soul . |
| 13 | She was nervous before stepping onto the set of Delinquents , just as she had been all those years ago when she did the rehearsals for The Henderson Kids . |
| 14 | She was becoming almost as sensitive to him as she had been all those years ago . |
| 15 | Sebastian and I began to feel as close as we had been all those years ago . |
| 16 | Even when they had been little more than babies he had started to corrupt them . |
| 17 | October is however officially winter , even though it 's been warm this year . |
| 18 | Gladly , willingly , he accepted and he again became a familiar figure at our ground as he had been all those years before . |