Example sentences of "you have been [adv] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You 've been here a while , then ? ’ |
| 2 | Do n't you get critical when you 've been here a bit ? |
| 3 | ‘ I must n't frighten you before you 've been here a week , ’ Hortensia said . |
| 4 | But erm it 's quite hard if you 've been up a lot at night and then you have to go and do the whole of the next day of work , but fortunately our rotas are n't too bad so we 're never on two nights in a row compared with the hospital which was quite a lot harder work . |
| 5 | ‘ You latch on to these techniques after you 've been around a bit ’ , he said … |
| 6 | ‘ You have been here a week , Holly , I have been here one hundred times longer . |
| 7 | ‘ Up to now , Brown , you have been only a cypher . |