Example sentences of "[subord] [pers pn] have been [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once I had been there a little while I really settled in and really enjoyed my primary school days . |
| 2 | In Wilson 's eyes the condition of the British seaman was scarcely better than it had been half a century earlier . |
| 3 | It seems as if I have been here a lot longer than a few years , and I do not think that I could ever fit into an institutional regime again . |
| 4 | Even now , after this short while , she found it hard to remember if Johnny had truly been with her or if it had been only a dream . |
| 5 | It had vanished as silently as if it had been only a figment of her imagination . |
| 6 | I believe that when the French were here , a man could enlist with the forces and still claim paternity for children born during his absence , even if he 'd been away a couple of years . ’ |
| 7 | He looked as if he 'd been home a while . |
| 8 | before I realized that all you had to do was put your hand through my letter box , reach up and you could take , open the Yale lock because I 'd been there a year I locked myself out and I thought the only thing I can do is try and get in by putting my hand through . |
| 9 | Following her second disappearance her father wrote , ‘ I 've had little hopes of her — I consider what I write — since she has been half a year old . ’ |
| 10 | After I 'd been there a few months I was asked if I wanted to help out in the kitchen , which I did . |
| 11 | Before I had been there a month my eyes began to suffer and I had to start wearing glasses for close work . |
| 12 | Nevertheless on arriving in Sydney I was brought into the Theosophical Centre , and before I had been there a week found myself a very interested enquirer . |
| 13 | And wheeling them to the ship you know , then after you 'd been there a long time , well my father was a down below and I went to his shop then you see . |
| 14 | ‘ You latch on to these techniques after you 've been around a bit ’ , he said … |
| 15 | ‘ I must n't frighten you before you 've been here a week , ’ Hortensia said . |
| 16 | Do n't you get critical when you 've been here a bit ? |
| 17 | When she had been there a couple of years and I asked her how she was , she said , ‘ Pretty mouldy . ’ |
| 18 | Though she had been quite a successful model herself Arlene had never reached those giddy heights — the thought that now a pupil and protégé of hers might achieve it made her prickle with excitement . |
| 19 | She had told him how Karen had gone half stupid over Mallachy , when it had been just a one-night stand , a one-night stand that did not , in the event , come off . |
| 20 | when he 's been there a little while perhaps he can come with all the authority of a Euro MP and tell us the answer to his own question er , the honourable member for Ashfield er referred back to the positioning of the European parliament er where it should meet , there are three sites . |