Example sentences of "[pron] have be [adv] [det] " in BNC.
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| 31 | I have been there many times and had many unshakeable criticisms , which now have , of course , been shaken . ’ |
| 32 | ( Oh , yes , and before you ask , I have been there many a time . |
| 33 | I have been there many times , both for business and for pleasure . ’ |
| 34 | ‘ 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 . |
| 35 | But even this has not stopped my love for canoeing as I have been out many times since and this summer , when I was at camp , I was going down a weir , when I got caught in a stopper at the bottom and nearly drowned myself again . |
| 36 | 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 . |
| 37 | Then the rain which had been around all day drove them inside the house , where , bored , they wandered restlessly though the rooms . |
| 38 | ‘ 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 . |
| 39 | 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 . |
| 40 | 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 … ’ |
| 41 | This time next week it 'll be as though you 'd been there all your life . |
| 42 | 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 . |
| 43 | So she 'd been out all day to this cousin 's at Blakely She goes on a Monday now . |
| 44 | When she 'd been very little , not too long after her parents had died , she 'd had bad dreams . |
| 45 | 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 . |
| 46 | You 've been here all that time ? |
| 47 | Shelley , you 've been here all day . |
| 48 | Now you 've been here several months , have your feelings about Chrysler changed ? |
| 49 | Salim presents himself in a light which requires the reader to be told that , although he himself has been making good , he is grieved , or affects to be , by the discovery that the slavish Metty has been getting on : ‘ You 've been very much getting on as though you 're your own man . ’ |
| 50 | You 've been there all day and ca n't remember ! |
| 51 | She was cold , she had been dead some time . |
| 52 | It could only be about eight o'clock — her old-fashioned watch , unwound this morning , had stopped — but she felt as if she had been up all night , working to meet an insane deadline . |
| 53 | How foolishly happy she had been earlier that evening , and how ridiculous she felt at this moment , all her dreams crushed and shattered around her slowly dragging feet . |
| 54 | Gentle and unassuming , she had been very much in her daughter 's hands . |
| 55 | Long ago , Miranda had realized that sexual involvement with Adam could only complicate her life , but she had been only half awake and off guard when he made his move . |
| 56 | It was just that she had been too much in love at the time to see it . |
| 57 | But after that seemingly unpropitious start , Topaz settled into the routine at Yelton as if she had been there all her life . |
| 58 | She was certain MacQuillan had not gone to the bar because she had been there all the time until then . |
| 59 | ‘ Retirement for me meant dropping out of a whole network of people who had been very much part of my life . |
| 60 | Zbo , who had been out all day trying to sell his paintings , returned to find Modigliani sleeping off his drunken stupor on their sofa . |