Example sentences of "[pers pn] have been [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | cos I said you 'll be here to midnight David and then on the day we were going he stopped me and Jane , little Jane , she was coming down the stairs behind me , I 'd been up for a fax , and I do n't know where she 'd been , she was behind me and as she come down the stairs I was listening and he said got her hand ooh he said I am gon na miss you my dear , so she said yes I 'll miss Hodems as well , he said you have got a way with your words have n't you , he said for one strange minute I thought you were gon na say you 'll miss me too |
| 2 | You had to appear in front of them , well this , I 'd been off for a week and the old Harbourmaster old he sent for me and he said erm , you can start work tomorrow as I . |
| 3 | no , I forgot well see I forgotten and I 'd been down to Boots an all I , aunty Mary had them once , one time and said |
| 4 | Yeah , well I 'd been out to the bin and er , he was just sort of erm by the ground by the bin bags the wood round the corner and er then he was sort of coming and he was like dying to come and have a stroke but |
| 5 | I 'll tell you a lovely story when we had the Queen at the day before when we had had the dress rehearsal I 'd been out to erm London to pick erm up an old lady who 's now dead , who very seldom got out and was pretty well house-bound to come and see the rehearsal as a little Sunday treat |
| 6 | After all , I 'd been out of the Army a full six weeks by then . |
| 7 | It was the first time I 'd been out of the cell since 15 May . |
| 8 | But you had to have qualified for it by working , see ? end of the week and the only place I ever had one was at and because the foreman approached me , I 'd been out of work and got the job by writing to it , going to the library and it was in one of the London papers , they wanted men for the tool rooms . |
| 9 | ‘ I 'd been out of town . |
| 10 | ‘ But I 'd been out with friends for the evening and got home late . |
| 11 | I 'd been out with other boys other than Keith but they never touched me . |
| 12 | ‘ I 'd been out with a client , and one thing led to another . ’ |
| 13 | She no doubt thought I 'd been out in the sun too long . |
| 14 | Leee Childers : ‘ After playing in Pork , I 'd been back in America for about a year when the phone rang — it was Tony DeFries , David 's manager , who I had apparently met before but did n't remember . |
| 15 | But I could still remember what I had been through as Richie Quick . |
| 16 | It had blown a gale in the early hours and I had been up with my torch at three o'clock to attend to the guy-ropes and check that the washing was still on the line : it was , but it had become red with dust . |
| 17 | The King 's mail never seemed to catch up with him , and now I did n't want Charlie to find out what I had been up to until I had the chance to witness his reaction for myself . |
| 18 | Then , inexplicably , I had been out of work for over a year and my few friends were drifting away . |
| 19 | By the time I got to the last rocker I had been out of the garage , round the block three times , back up the drive and home in time for teal Is there any way I can turn the engine over without moving the vehicle ? |
| 20 | I regret that I had been out of the office on the 15 July and did not receive your FAX until first thing on the 16 July . |
| 21 | I had been out for many hours that day and had covered many miles of jungle with unflagging caution , but without one moment , s unease , and then , on cresting the ridge , and coming in sight of the rocks , I knew they held danger for me , and this knowledge was confirmed a few minutes later by the kakar 's warning call to the jungle folk , and by my finding the man-eater 's pug marks superimposed on my footprints . |
| 22 | I had been down in my pantry working through the supplies sheets , when I had heard somewhere above my head the unmistakable sounds of motor cars pulling up in the courtyard . |
| 23 | Arriving , triumphant , in Ulm in the late afternoon , I had within half an hour found the worst hotel I had been in in years , with the modest staff and a parking ticket to boot . |
| 24 | I 've been up to my eyes in mannequins and haute couture . ’ |
| 25 | Then he admitted as he shovelled manure at a tree-planting ceremoney in his Huntingdon constituency : ‘ It occurs to me I 've been up to my neck in this stuff for the last month . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ I 've been up to my ears , ’ he says . |
| 27 | Well the , the er the Guilds I can speak now because I 've been up to a higher level , I 've been on the section and Birmingham is a very big area . |
| 28 | What that basically means , wherever that happens anywhere else in the country , you go to South Wales , you go to West Lothian , places like that I 've been up to West Lothian , all services are reduced when your main industry 's removed from an area . |
| 29 | I 've been up to church . |
| 30 | See she , she came around cos erm I 've been up to her , her friends place to and give him a bit of a telling off like and that and erm she came to John 's house and I said , why are calling ? |