Example sentences of "that [pron] have been [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I said three flights that I 've been on in the last fortnight . |
| 2 | ‘ In view of your opinion of me , it wo n't surprise you to know that I 've been out with a couple of the other men from the station over the past week , ’ Maria volunteered stormily , halting and then swinging round to face him again . |
| 3 | I regret that I had been out of the office on the 15 July and did not receive your FAX until first thing on the 16 July . |
| 4 | Worried that leaving it in the basket might suggest that she had been up to no good , the girl ran downstairs starkers with her boyfriend in hot pursuit , playfully offering to help . |
| 5 | When he went round the corner to her room and knocked , she would have to pretend that she had been down to the kitchens . |
| 6 | However , there were people there who were ‘ greatly desiring that she had been out of that country ’ , and she bustled off to York , where the Archbishop paid a man five shillings to lead her out of the town . |
| 7 | She says she wept nonstop for an hour during which she gradually began to realize that she had been out of her mind for the last six weeks . |
| 8 | Jodie Cooper from Australia told me that she had been out at Haleiwa when Johnny Boy got it into his head that she had robbed him of his wave . |
| 9 | Her last thought before she fell asleep was the reaction she would get if they knew that she had been out with a policeman . |
| 10 | She had to decide before she saw her parents again if she should confess all that she 'd been up to . |
| 11 | Nonetheless , the fact that there have been up to a score of document leaks in the past month means the report is being given widespread credence . |
| 12 | Nonetheless , the fact that there have been up to a score of document leaks in the past month means the report is being given widespread credence . |
| 13 | Kahane gave him the one for the previous month , explaining that they had been out in the desert for six weeks . |
| 14 | North Korea would probably still have to admit , as Iraq has done under UN sanctions and as South Africa did voluntarily , that it had been up to no good . |
| 15 | How this name originated I have no idea , but I do know that it has been around for many generations for a jingle about this name has come down from the 19th century and it went : " Old Cribb , Young Cribb and Young Cribbs Son , if it had n't a been for Old Cribb there would n't have been none " . |
| 16 | Bill Wood of Durham called about it , desisted from hurling it in this direction and merely gave the fascinating information that it has been about for 1,500 years and started off in Anglo Saxon as sacleas , meaning ‘ without strife ’ . |
| 17 | I gathered that he 'd been around in some pretty exciting — oh , do you mean he might have made that up , too ? |
| 18 | When Conchis had said that he 'd been down on Moutsa the week before , it had been this one fact , the sweet womanish perfume , that had puzzled me . |
| 19 | Checking his watch , he found that he 'd been out of the cabin for a little over three hours . |
| 20 | Jarvis Stringer 's grandparents ' qualifications for keeping a school were that he had been up at Oxford where he had read Greats and she had left Goldsmith 's College halfway through her teacher training . |
| 21 | Only that he had been up at San Carlos about two years and had a wife that was supposed to be very pretty and about fifteen years younger than he was . |
| 22 | Sir Richard , in hose and open cambric shirt , wiped dust from his hands , apologising that he had been out with the craftsmen who were putting the finishing touches to their pageant for the young king 's coronation . |
| 23 | Did that , he was asked in the House of Commons , mean that he had been out of sympathy with the policies of the Government in which he served in the '80s ? |
| 24 | He did n't want to think of what would happen if his mother discovered that he had been out of the house . |
| 25 | He gives them tremendous know-how , and the fact that he has been out for so long wo n't affect him . |