Example sentences of "have [be] [adv prt] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I must 've been out at the wrong time . |
| 2 | My department 's equivalent of Inspector Morse has been on to the change-of-address problem . |
| 3 | Hypnosis has been around for a long , long time . |
| 4 | I 'm trying to find out what sort of emotional state your daughter has been in over the past six months . |
| 5 | The Yorkshire captain has been out with a broken finger since the opening day of the championship season and it was thought he would not be fit until next week . |
| 6 | All being well , the skies will part once or twice during the festival — only the second time the event has been out in the open air . |
| 7 | But mostly it was directed towards herself , and whatever it was in her that seemed to respond to some call given out by the least suitable of men ; despite what she 'd been through in the past couple of years she appeared to have learned precisely nothing . |
| 8 | This is because all the variation margin payments due will have been up to the penultimate trading day . |
| 9 | ‘ You must have been up with the famous Ord Gaunt ? ’ says the man whose name Howard did n't quite catch , and the dense Middle English blackletter in which the words are uttered exactly matches their resonant profundity . |
| 10 | I suspect , though , there can be no doubt about which side she would have been on in the public debate about fox-hunting prompted by last week 's Private Member 's Bill . |
| 11 | Could they have been in with the real Communist underground ? ’ |
| 12 | Since I 've understood what management was about — I suppose that must have been back in the early 1950s — I 've had the philosophy that if I go into a job I must do it better than the bloke who 's been doing it before me . |
| 13 | The aircraft had a peculiar motion , rather like a small boat in a heavy ocean swell , or rather what I imagined that must feel like , never having been out on the open sea in a small boat . |
| 14 | The dahabeeyah had moored for the night and the three girls had been up on the top deck enjoying the evening breeze . |
| 15 | By now , 1345 hours , the Colonel had been up with the leading Troops for more than because two hours , and as the short Arctic day was drawing to a close he ordered the withdrawal to begin . |
| 16 | She knew that her presence and unwavering support was as important to the outcome as all the physical and psychological preparation that Lennox had been through in the past few months . |
| 17 | Although direct debits and cash dispenser machines had been around since the late 1960s , promotion campaigns made them farmore popular during the mid-1980s . |
| 18 | Marijuana , liberalism , wild living and protestation had been around for a long time . |
| 19 | The principles of magnetic recording had been around for a long time . |
| 20 | Modernism , by then , had been around for a long time , and much of it looked ready to be stacked away into the attic . |
| 21 | Scott was sensitive to the pressure his wife had been under for the past month . |
| 22 | Brutally suppressed by bluecoats led by Rope Thrower , known to whites as Kit Carson , in 1863 , they had been out of the major Indian Wars because the Reservation lands given to them were so arid and dreary that even the white man did n't want to kick them off to somewhere else . |
| 23 | She had been out with a young lawyer once , a bumptious and ambitious man , and a boring one . |
| 24 | The British emerged from their wars against Louis XIV in a calmer flame of mind than they had been in during the disturbed and excited seventeenth century . |
| 25 | Daisy had been back for a long time ; she looked white and pinched . |
| 26 | ‘ I 've been up for the past three hours , ’ he said , looking me up and down rather coldly . |
| 27 | Maybe we 've just misunderstood , even though we 've been around for a long time , my own trades council in Battersea and Wandsworth celebrated its hundredth anniversary this year . |
| 28 | Yolanda said : ‘ We 've been round to the new house and it is lovely . |
| 29 | Yolanda said : ‘ We 've been round to the new house and it is lovely . |
| 30 | While I 've been out in the fresh air enjoying myself she 's been stuck in this featureless boarding house , wondering if I 'll ever come back . |