Example sentences of "and [pers pn] [verb] be [verb] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Must be doing litres for about twenty years , and I 've been retired ten years . |
| 2 | just a little shop they were five pound ninety five and I 've been paying seventeen pounds and would you believe they 're made in England ? |
| 3 | If you believe them , Simon 's been sighted eight hundred different places and you 've been caught fifty times … ’ |
| 4 | And I was hoping to cos I can quote you instances where people have trained in the health service , and they 've been told nineteen seventy four seventy five , when you complete your training , you 're not guaranteed a job in this health authority . |
| 5 | A word from Maud and he had been given one of the four coveted places as a dresser , which meant he had more chance to learn the great man 's skills . |
| 6 | He 's er , he 's been working all that time and he 's been getting two fifty . |
| 7 | so they got that and the carpet it had been seven ninety nine in Allied and it had been reduced three ninety nine for a week |
| 8 | ‘ I have a dog as big as me and it 's been poisoned three times . ’ |