Example sentences of "[pron] have be [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 I 'd been out all day and was ravenous , but the strange woman made me nervous of settling down to eat .
4 I had been out all day with my gun , but without success .
5 I had been out all day and I had eaten nothing since breakfast .
6 She simply tells me something , as if I had been there all the time .
7 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 .
8 But I 've been up all night .
9 I 've been up all night , thinking .
10 I 've been up all night working on these . ’
11 Certainly when we get settled in after Christmas that should be and I 'll shall say about six rolls but I 'll shall say six rolls and just the every time I get one roll of wallpaper up and you you 'll think oh I 'll do the rest tomorrow just a bit more , then you get one more looks alright there , the other wall and er , I 'm sat , I 've been up all night doing this shall do one more then I 'll go a bed , I get from the wife bloody hell mother what time did you go to bed , about an hour ago , could n't leave it wallpaper .
12 I 've been up all night .
13 I 've been here all day — here in Oxford ! ’
14 I 've been here all the time .
15 I 've been here all morning .
16 One mistake I 've made since I 've been here that is .
17 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 .
18 I 've been here some time now and it 's never happened before . ’
19 ‘ It 's nigh on two year since I 've been out that house , ’ said Bella suddenly , ‘ since the Warden took me for that X-ray after I fell over and hurt me wrist . ’
20 I 've been out all day .
21 Well I 've been out all afternoon so I wondered if you 'd phoned in this afternoon .
22 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 .
23 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 .
24 ‘ I managed to crawl to the outside lavatory and I 've been there most of the time . ’
25 ‘ Yes , it 's a pot I 've been down many times — not the easiest ; apart from a fifty-foot pitch we 'll have to haul him up , there 's a long sump we 'll have to bring the injured man back through which could be tricky if he 's unconscious or uncooperative .
26 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
27 ‘ I know this because I have been here several times when I was younger .
28 I have been here less than a week and already it feels like home , ’ he said .
29 But I have been up all night comma , too tired , but I was really homesick .
30 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 .
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