Example sentences of "have been [adv] [det] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From there it has been downhill all the way . |
| 2 | Well , you never go in an unrealistic influencing situation , and er , the other one would have said , well , we 've had situations where it has been very much a line type decision . |
| 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 | Later , two men took me into a corner and fired questions at me for what seemed like ages , but can only have been about half an hour . |
| 6 | And could have been once all a con . |
| 7 | That you should have been there all the while and me not know it all this time ! |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | It could have been there all the time . |
| 11 | ‘ 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 . |
| 12 | He was an opportunist , who took advantage of the chances fate laid out for him , and this last weekend had been just such an example . |
| 13 | From that point onward , it had been downhill all the way . |
| 14 | It was obvious that they had been outside all the time , probably in a van . |
| 15 | But then again , maybe Jos had been nearby all the while ? |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The extra pairs had been there all the time ; they had simply found nowhere to nest before . |
| 18 | But the question had been there all the time . |
| 19 | It had been there all the time hidden beneath the forced gaiety , the conversational duelling . |
| 20 | She was certain MacQuillan had not gone to the bar because she had been there all the time until then . |
| 21 | Because the signs had been there all the time if she 'd ever bothered to look further than his surface charm . |
| 22 | She simply tells me something , as if I had been there all the time . |
| 23 | 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 |
| 24 | I 've been here all the time . |
| 25 | And I opened the door and let him in and he was telling me I 've been here half an hour trying to get in . |
| 26 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 27 | ( Oh , yes , and before you ask , I have been there many a time . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 ? |