Example sentences of "have [be] [adv prt] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With regard to the flats I mean , one o erm the flats have been up since the late sixties and erm now they 're gon na be coming down . |
| 2 | Lick and stick stamps have been around since the 1840s , but by the turn of the century it 's thought self-adhesives will be the norm . |
| 3 | As W Somerset Maugham once pointed out , short stories have been around for a long time . |
| 4 | Artificial pitches have been around for a long time , and this was particularly well illustrated in Holland , where they were rolling out their red shale-type material and putting coconut matting over it 40 years ago . |
| 5 | In looking for the answers , let us begin with those citizens who have been around for the longest time — the elderly and those in later middle age . |
| 6 | For the last three days ten novice sailors have been out in the Western Approaches , sailing in winds of 40 knots or more through occasional sleet showers . |
| 7 | Well Peter , I 'd I 'd love to say yes , as you know , but erm they 've gone to Swindon the last two years since United have been back in the second division , and really they 've performed dismally . |
| 8 | ‘ We have been down to the bare bones before . |