Example sentences of "have been [adv] [adj] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From there it has been downhill all the way . |
| 2 | Anyway , I 'd been very busy the day before and Doreen had irritated me for other reasons . |
| 3 | Two-nil up at home against moderate opposition — it would have been downhill all the way for most teams . |
| 4 | It should have been downhill all the way for retired Shetland Pony Selwyn , instead it turned out to be downbeat . |
| 5 | That you should have been there all the while and me not know it all this time ! |
| 6 | But in a more important sense he would be wrong , for there is no such person as he had in mind and I would have been there all the time . |
| 7 | It must have been there all the time , sitting motionless and staring straight at me from the far edge of the level area of the Grounds , but I had n't noticed it at first . |
| 8 | It could have been there all the time . |
| 9 | ‘ I would definitely like to have been there all the way at the start of history , at the start of human beings , to see all that happened . |
| 10 | Three days later Ainsworth went to the landlord , Liverpool Housing Trust and said he had been illegally sub-letting the flat . |
| 11 | From that point onward , it had been downhill all the way . |
| 12 | It was obvious that they had been outside all the time , probably in a van . |
| 13 | But then again , maybe Jos had been nearby all the while ? |
| 14 | She had been too long the creature of thought , and now she had seen . |
| 15 | Now as I looked at the tree I saw that the great things had been there all the time but I had mistaken them for the background . |
| 16 | The extra pairs had been there all the time ; they had simply found nowhere to nest before . |
| 17 | But the question had been there all the time . |
| 18 | It had been there all the time hidden beneath the forced gaiety , the conversational duelling . |
| 19 | She was certain MacQuillan had not gone to the bar because she had been there all the time until then . |
| 20 | Because the signs had been there all the time if she 'd ever bothered to look further than his surface charm . |
| 21 | She simply tells me something , as if I had been there all the time . |
| 22 | No I 'm only phoning you because you phoned I 'm only phoning because you ph yeah yeah no no we 've been here all the time and the phone did n't ring once well |
| 23 | I 've been here all the time . |
| 24 | ‘ The buildings have been there all the time on the backcloth but they 'll only show up when lit , and the alcove , for Act One , will be altered thus . ’ |
| 25 | Redundancies , short-time working , bonus cuts and the like have been very much the order of the day we 've had the twenty percent job cuts at Blue Circle Cement which are mentioned specifically in the report and we 've also seen significant additional job losses at British Gypsum in the brick industry and in many other sectors of the building materials industry . |
| 26 | Well they sort of said that what , hopefully , she 'll like be there for a couple of days and she 'll never think she 's been anywhere else , she 'll think she 's been there all the time . |
| 27 | That 's been very much the case has n't it , in previous rounds is you have n't known very much about any of the opposition so far ? |