Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] have [been] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Someone else had been here before him , tearing open the bags of perishables in search of anything worthy of rescue . |
| 2 | There had been a light snowfall the previous night but it looked as if someone else had been here , visited the witch then gone back to the line of trees , covering their tracks by using a switch of old branches so no imprint could be seen . |
| 3 | They did little , however , and Grubb took over the ride again last November , but has taken him to only a few shows , mostly indoor , in which Ever has been extremely consistent . |
| 4 | The violent metaphors which formerly had been freely used were absent , and the letter contained a suggestion that it was Anselm himself who had been going too far : |
| 5 | At the more local level there has also been a marked shift away from major urban areas towards areas which previously had been less industrialized . |
| 6 | ‘ A little to the west of the house is an old , ruinous chapel , unroofed , which never has been very curious . |
| 7 | A report in Nezavisimaya gazeta of April 21 noted that Dudayev appeared to be hoping for support and recognition from the Islamic countries , rather than from the West , which recently had been heavily criticized in his speeches . |
| 8 | And it is that point which has raised questions in the minds of some MPs who hitherto have been relatively happy with Clarke . |
| 9 | I realized that in fact she was absolutely determined on going , she had n't the imagination to act out this sort of scene to punish me , nor , to be fair , would she ever have been so spiteful if she had . |
| 10 | Her job might be one of considerable stress and strain , but she really had been incredibly lucky , Laura told herself , not just in being able to afford to buy a penthouse apartment in this large , architectually prestigious warehouse development beside the river at Wapping , but also in managing to persuade her old school-friend Julie to come and share the apartment with her . |
| 11 | That is um in Burstow 's clinical practice she reckons that um sometimes people say something along the lines of well well um perhaps it was my fault , I was flirting with him , and things like that it and these are people who maybe have been about five or six when the abuse has happened and so y'know do five or six year olds flirt ? |
| 12 | You never have been before . |
| 13 | No the one downstairs has been there quite a while . |
| 14 | Rather does he venture to ask that it should be considered as the conclusion of an imaginative tragedy ( if he may so call it ) whereof one half has been already published . |
| 15 | If there ever had been there was certainly nothing there now . |
| 16 | Slowing him down had been merely the preparation for the real poisoned phial . |
| 17 | I said he should n't derogate Joaquim and Rogerio ; maybe they really had been more gifted than Osvaldo and we would never know . |
| 18 | It 's Bill 's first er time at the worship consultation , but I believe everybody else has been here before . |
| 19 | They never had been so unfortunate as to have intruders , and were unlikely to start now . |
| 20 | ‘ In any case I was born in World 's End , everyone there has been very good to me . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ Would it not have been more usual for your daughter to have stayed with her mother ? ’ |
| 22 | Would it not have been too painful , not least having to watch another youngster take his first steps into the fatherless state ? |
| 23 | Why could it not have been there always , hard and black from the start ? |
| 24 | If it ever had been there . ’ |
| 25 | Oh indeed , but er you have to consider the situation the diplomatic situation between Britain , er the West in general and Iran which is the backer of Hezbalar which does pull the strings of the kidnappers , is perhaps er diff , different and in a more improved state than it ever has been before . |
| 26 | On erm food and noise , we 're still very , very busy indeed , and our figure for noise inspection is higher than it ever has been before , and the comment that was made under that section will show you that some of that most certainly is the amount of work that the team had to carry out during the summer , one of the benefits of our glorious summer is that most of us slept with our windows fully open for three months or more and one of the dis-benefits was that if anybody else down the road had a party that went beyond normal bed-time , everybody shared that , and our team was very busy in consequence . |
| 27 | It always has been so with me , and will be . |
| 28 | I know that you do n't like me talking about Ross , ’ she 'd added apologetically , ‘ but he really has been very kind and generous . ’ |
| 29 | Cos it really has been extremely well managed , extremely well run , er not by me I 've just received the ballot papers . |
| 30 | If anyone else had been there I should have had to laugh . |