Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [been] [adv] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And my enormous thanks go to my own Table , Chester seventy six , very very true friends indeed and the same for the whole of my own area , Area thirty six Wirral and the Marches , where nothing has been too much trouble and they are here today as you 've just seen in some considerable strength . |
| 2 | Cos I 'd been there that morning |
| 3 | She simply tells me something , as if I had been there all the time . |
| 4 | I 've been away all this week because my wife took a telephone message from Nora yesterday and it is it is in our parish . |
| 5 | ‘ I 've been here all day — here in Oxford ! ’ |
| 6 | I 've been here all the time . |
| 7 | I 've been here all morning . |
| 8 | One mistake I 've made since I 've been here that is . |
| 9 | And I opened the door and let him in and he was telling me I 've been here half an hour trying to get in . |
| 10 | ‘ I 've been here some time now and it 's never happened before . ’ |
| 11 | And er I 've been there all my life and that 's and that 'll be eighty seven years old come May and er I 've just worked on the farm all my days and er then of course when my people died I just er stayed myself , and then lived with other people here and there , just to help them . |
| 12 | If I was on the streets of Ireland now , and I 've been there many occasions and someone said to me , look at that Welsh get there , I would just have to take it . |
| 13 | ‘ I managed to crawl to the outside lavatory and I 've been there most of the time . ’ |
| 14 | erm , I , well I ca n't commit myself to going down to that to , I mean if it 's , if I can I 'll give you a ring because with Cherry being off as well it 's , I mean it 's gon na be unfair if I start , cos I 've been so much |
| 15 | ‘ I know this because I have been here several times when I was younger . |
| 16 | I have been here less than a week and already it feels like home , ’ he said . |
| 17 | These passages I have already referred to as being extremely indicative of the wonderful girl that Anna Jane was before her accident and I have been very much in mind in the earlier part of my judgement . |
| 18 | I have been there many times and had many unshakeable criticisms , which now have , of course , been shaken . ’ |
| 19 | ( Oh , yes , and before you ask , I have been there many a time . |
| 20 | I have been there many times , both for business and for pleasure . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ When I think back , knowing what I know now — and I have been so many places , and looked into the windows of other people 's lives , and I have seen so much — I still ca n't say for sure what Gittel really wanted . |
| 22 | Three years later , the Siemens brothers extended cable communications even further by implementing an 11,000km telegraph line between London and Calcutta , a very considerable achievement , one which had been yet another adventure , the sort that provided — like the Atlantic cable saga — the densely-packed reports and darkly realistic illustration for which the Illustrated London News had become justifiably renowned . |
| 23 | ‘ 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 . |
| 24 | She is older than the rocks among which she sits ; like the vampire , she has been dead many times , and learned the secrets of the grave ; and has been a diver in deep seas , and keeps their fallen day about her ; and trafficked for strange webs with Eastern merchants ; and , as Leda , was the mother of Helen of Troy , and , as Saint Anne , the mother of Mary ; and all this has been to her but as the sound of lyres and flutes , and lives only in the delicacy with which it has moulded the changing lineaments , and tinged the eyelids and the hands . |
| 25 | It is a memorable evocation , casting a spell over the reader : ‘ She is older than the rocks among which she sits ; like the vampire , she has been dead many times , and learned the secrets of the grave ; and has been a diver in deep seas , and keeps their fallen day about her … ’ |
| 26 | This time next week it 'll be as though you 'd been there all your life . |
| 27 | What can you mind what was the first sort of action on Hoy that impressed you cos Well you 'd been there all your life you would have really seen the whole process happening . |
| 28 | When she 'd been very little , not too long after her parents had died , she 'd had bad dreams . |
| 29 | Erm there 's been a reduction er , in the er , staff er because er er people have moved on and er , I take Sue 's point about er if it were n't for the fact that erm they 'd got fully e e experienced staff who 've been there some time , they have n't , not used to this churning over o of , and therefore , that has paid off in er in er in erm so far as being able to deal with the problems that have arisen and er , you 'll see further on er , addition profiles of the work that 's been done with er in this area over the town . |
| 30 | You 've been here all that time ? |