Example sentences of "have [adv] [be] [adv] [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After three weeks at his new contract , Cole has not been home before 8.30 in the evening once , so the idea that all contract catering chefs work nine-to-five is a fallacy . |
| 2 | ‘ I do n't understand it , he has n't been here in ten years ! |
| 3 | He has n't been home for twelve months |
| 4 | But he had only been away for three days . |
| 5 | It might not have been a very long missive , but it brought Aubrey into the room as if they had not been apart for two whole years . |
| 6 | References in the work of Constantine Porphyrogenitus , written in the tenth century , indicate that they were settled in Dalmatia in his time and had probably been there for two hundred years . |
| 7 | Fine China we had a very poor first four months but then in May world sales were nine point nine percent ahead of last year and in the U S A over the last ten weeks we 've actually been ahead of nineteen ninety . |
| 8 | Despite their 20-year age gap , the couple have now been together for eight years and run a pub in Amersham , Bucks . |
| 9 | When it , and the Government can produce fifty pieces of legislation affecting local government since nineteen seventy nine , I have n't been here since nineteen seventy nine thankfully , so I have to analyze everything , but they always landed our the ma the major ones and , so for example erm , it was the Local government Unit that produced the initial response of the Poll Tax , what strategy the Council should adopt er , the Council wo n't distance approach , we wanted to make it clear that the Poll Tax was a Government erm , it was a Government initiative and it was being forcedly on us and that was the way , did that effect it , that was a guided and then there was the nineteen eight nine local Government Housing Act , which I 'm sure many of you . |
| 10 | ‘ Friday nights because we have n't been together for four nights , Sundays because we know there are another four ahead of us , and … why Saturdays ? ’ |
| 11 | We have n't been together for three months . |