Example sentences of "you have [been] [adv] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Only that you could n't help the police very much because you 'd been away for a couple of days , ’ said Melissa . |
| 2 | After all you 've been here over a fortnight . |
| 3 | ‘ After all , you 've been away for a long time , and you know the old saying — ’ |
| 4 | She had told him once as they lay at peace in bed that the sleep after childbirth , an unconsciousness that might only last a split second , was the most complete sleep she had ever known and when you woke from it you felt you had been elsewhere for a hundred years . |
| 5 | What better way to prove that you have been somewhere in a consumer culture , than to buy something made locally whilst you are there . |