Example sentences of "have [adv] been [adv] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 The best-informed guess from those collecting ‘ yellow card ’ adverse reaction reports has long been that at most only 10 per cent of serious reactions , including death , and considerably less than 1 per cent of mild reactions come to the CSM 's notice .
2 We 'd never been apart from each other for more than two weeks when I was arrested .
3 He just disappeared , as if he 'd never been there at all .
4 But he had only been away for three days .
5 ‘ Gay , you 've always been rather like that , have n't you ? ’
6 There had always been more in common between the front benches than either had in common with their followers in the country .
7 He had always been so against any kind of what he called ‘ gobbledygook ’ .
8 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 .
9 It had probably been there for some time !
10 The doctor , who had now been there for some time , and was looking at his watch , had been explaining .
11 We used to , we , I used to go when my husband was alive we used to go to erm Devon cos I had a brother living in Devon we used to go there , but er unfortunately I lost him when he was only fifty with a coronary , and so erm , in , cos and after that I lost my husband you see so cos we I 've never been away like that before , not , not since , years ago that was , he 's been gone twenty one years this Christmas sixteenth might be so , I 've not been able to so I , I , I go with the erm , I went with the Red Cross this year the year before last I went erm er , Char Charlie took me away we went to er a chalet we stayed at and er a friend of mine we went there for a week had a week there , that poured of rain every day , this year it poured of rain every day
12 I 've never been anywhere like that , to drive through .
13 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 .
14 The composition by age of children in children 's homes had always included some adolescents but they had never been together in such large numbers before .
15 featured the last er three years some of the other companies have only been here since last year and the year before so I mean we 're a national tour operator
16 This team have only been together for less than a year and it is getting better all the time .
17 Despite their 20-year age gap , the couple have now been together for eight years and run a pub in Amersham , Bucks .
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