Example sentences of "[pron] have be [adv prt] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Personnel is rarely told if someone has been off sick . |
| 2 | I 'd been out all day and was ravenous , but the strange woman made me nervous of settling down to eat . |
| 3 | I had been out all day with my gun , but without success . |
| 4 | I had been out all day and I had eaten nothing since breakfast . |
| 5 | Durie said : ‘ I 've been up front on my own for a few games . |
| 6 | But I 've been up all night . |
| 7 | I 've been up all night , thinking . |
| 8 | I 've been up all night working on these . ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | I 've been up all night . |
| 11 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 12 | I 've been out all day . |
| 13 | Well I 've been out all afternoon so I wondered if you 'd phoned in this afternoon . |
| 14 | I 've been back 4 times and they know me . |
| 15 | ‘ 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 . |
| 16 | It 's something for my wife which I ca n't afford cos I 've been off sick so I thought it would be something nice for her . |
| 17 | Oh well if he wants to know why I 'm there and me are you off sick I shall just show him a I 've got proof that I 've been off sick . |
| 18 | But I have been up all night comma , too tired , but I was really homesick . |
| 19 | I have a part-time job , but I have been off sick for the last two weeks , because I ca n't keep my mind on it . |
| 20 | I have a part-time job , but I have been off sick for the last two weeks , because I ca n't keep my mind on it . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Then the rain which had been around all day drove them inside the house , where , bored , they wandered restlessly though the rooms . |
| 23 | and then if you 'd been off sick at all you had to make that time up as well so it was about four years and six months I did there altogether . |
| 24 | Every morning since she 'd been here , apart from today , she 'd been up bright and early to see Kirsty off to school . |
| 25 | So she 'd been out all day to this cousin 's at Blakely She goes on a Monday now . |
| 26 | She 'd been out ten minutes , fifteen at the most . |
| 27 | And you 've been out one day . |
| 28 | So how how does the accommodation erm you 've been in prior to flats , contrast with erm living on the flats ? |
| 29 | The other one is phone Pete up and tell him that you 've been off sick for a week ca n't play football this week . |
| 30 | 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 . |