Example sentences of "[verb] be here [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The quarry has been here 200 years and is part of the landscape , rather than a blot on it . ’ |
| 2 | He has been here eight years . |
| 3 | ‘ Unfortunately I can not join you , because I am expecting a very old friend of my family , who has been here all these years , ’ she said . |
| 4 | ‘ Hyde has been here all this time why did n't he destroy this will ? ’ |
| 5 | Raskolnikov has been here three years . |
| 6 | She 'd been here four days and it was high time she wrote to him . |
| 7 | I says , You should have been here five minutes ago , we did a marvellous job . |
| 8 | That house might well have been here that big house just there across th in there which has now been turned into flats . |
| 9 | well I 've given many , many different answers here , I could have been here all day , giving you just between point five and point six , and you 'd have been giving one as the answer every time . |
| 10 | The young lady doctor had said ten minutes , but they must have been here twenty . |
| 11 | should have been here this morning |
| 12 | Well at least he 'll have been here this weekend to find |
| 13 | The best thing they could say about London was , ‘ you should have been here ten years ago ’ . |
| 14 | with a spirit-level ; could n't have been here ten minutes |
| 15 | One day when the driver arrived at ten minutes past ten an angry customer berated him : ‘ You 're late , you should have been here ten minutes ago ! ’ |
| 16 | ‘ You should have been here last week , ’ Bob continues . |
| 17 | Any ideas on that score swiftly evaporated , however , when his glance suddenly shot to hers , and she was on the receiving end of his piercing eyes as , ‘ According to this , you should have been here last Friday ! ’ he charged . |
| 18 | It 's wrong , Mr Deputy Speaker , if they 're living in this country erm on a semi-permanent basis and happen to have been here last October they 'll have a vote so will any everybody else who 's a citizen of the European union , so will peers of the realm who happen to be living elsewhere whether they 're in this country or outside this country under these regulations and previous regulations , have a vote in the European elections and I think it 's wholly wrong that erm citizens of other European countries namely France because that 's the one and it 's remarkable is it not that France is the one that 's gon na be the cause of this whole edifice collapsing if we do n't submit to their extra demands but citizens of France who are citizens living in their colonies , as I 've said in South America , the West Indies and the Pacific , will have a vote in the European elections on June the ninth and yet we have got citizens for whom we are responsible for in this house , we can not shirk it onto anyone else , we deny them the responsibility and I think it 's about time the house addressed this matter . |
| 19 | And there 's one other thing that expense form which I think is here good . |
| 20 | She had been here four days now , and , true to his word , Jonas had said nothing about Travis or the jade , which now stood in its rightful place in the display cabinet . |
| 21 | When she had been here three days a man had trailed up the stairs , let in by another tenant , hammering on her door . |
| 22 | Kuttner Dowd had been here several times , though never when the Society was assembled , as it was tonight . |
| 23 | We walked past a tanker where a huge man named Andy Matthews was pumping vinyl acetate into a 10,000-gallon vat , wreathed in its sweet , sickly smell : ‘ I 've been here two years , ’ he said . |
| 24 | You 've been here two days now , and we 've still hardly discussed the divorce . |
| 25 | ‘ Black people , although they 've been here such a long time , have n't assimilated into the business community , or education , as they have in America . |
| 26 | You 've been here all that time ? |
| 27 | ‘ I 've been here all day — here in Oxford ! ’ |
| 28 | No I 'm only phoning you because you phoned I 'm only phoning because you ph yeah yeah no no we 've been here all the time and the phone did n't ring once well |
| 29 | Shelley , you 've been here all day . |
| 30 | I 've been here all the time . |