Example sentences of "have been [adv] [adv] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The surprise choice for the New Zealand tour was Michael Bradley , a scrum-half who has been completely out of international reckoning over the past few seasons . |
| 2 | Well the estate agent er area has been around now for twenty years so they 're rather used to us in that . |
| 3 | The last matter relates to some possible supposed uncertainty about the plaintiff 's further education at school , as I have already noted it is expected that the plaintiff will remain at school until he is nineteen , he has been there now for three years . |
| 4 | When at his best , which has been quite often in recent years , Woosnam is a wonderful player to watch , with the sort of swing that is a model for any youngster . |
| 5 | A small but increasing number of commentators would like to stop or turn back the clock and , in the absence of hard data , the debate has been perhaps more about political models of social care than about what works in practice . |
| 6 | Street , and the bottom lamp has been out now for six weeks . |
| 7 | ‘ They should n't have been up there at all ! ’ said the Rais . |
| 8 | RIDING on horseback , with only your hairdo to conceal your parts , must have been hard enough in 11th Century Coventry . |
| 9 | Though I must have been around just at that time , I think . |
| 10 | If Tim Sherwood 's long range blast in the 73rd minute had gone in instead of smacking against the bar , it would have been all up for United . |
| 11 | You should have been there back in seventy-nine . |
| 12 | Norfolk , for example , lost 70 per cent of its rail network during the 1960s , but some closures had come about even before the 1963 Beeching Report , having been underway ever since postwar nationalization of the railways ( Moseley 1979a ) . |
| 13 | They do n't seem to have been much together in recent months , I thought perhaps the friendship had petered out . |
| 14 | She has also proved more willing to allocate political honours to party workers than was Mr Heath who had been particularly niggardly in this regard . |
| 15 | So Anglam had been effectively entirely in American hands : they sent the trainees probably nominated the lecturers and when the time came could quietly pull out pleading changes in the American scene which the British directors could n't challenge . |
| 16 | After coaxing him for 20 minutes , one officer grabbed the man — only to discover he had been bleeding heavily from deep cuts to his wrist and arms . |
| 17 | I was a serving naval officer , whose experience had been almost entirely in small ships and submarines where I had learnt some of the problems of leadership of compact teams , for whom the aim was painfully apparent : sink , or be sunk . |
| 18 | She did n't answer , for the simple reason that she could n't think of anything to say because the smile he had given her had been so totally unlike any other he had turned in her direction , so warm , and devastating , crinkling his eyes … |
| 19 | When British forces assembled in the Gulf in 1990 , elements of the Armilla Patrol had been out there for most of the previous decade . |
| 20 | Also , the way we are told that the plan was connected with Swegen 's first visit to Essex suggests that he had been there again since this occasion and the drawing up of the confirmation . |
| 21 | And if Donal had been there right at that moment she thought she might have thumped him . |
| 22 | Tailors in 1814 were very much on a level in terms of real wages with 1795 , but in the intervening years had been significantly down on that level in eight years , and very seriously below it in 1800 and 1801 when their weekly wage would buy only half the quantity of bread it had purchased from 1777 to 1795 . |
| 23 | Mm , I 've been here just on four years now . |
| 24 | I know I also feel happy because I 've been not here for most of the day . |
| 25 | ‘ You 've been up there for two days . |
| 26 | They know me and Paul and Steve 'cos we 've been around here in this bit of the London Road for three seasons now and they know that we would n't let them down . ’ |
| 27 | We 've been around now for two and a half years erm we work as support workers , I suppose , like erm community workers or social workers in some contexts . |
| 28 | I 've been down here for bloody nine years I 've missed it a bit |
| 29 | I 've , I 've I 've often thought I would never vote Tory but , I mean , I 've been better off in some ways in that I was able to buy my council house . |
| 30 | We 've been together now for 18 years and it do n't seem a day too long , but I can see there does come a time when it 's good for mother and child to view one another from a distance . |