Example sentences of "[vb base] been [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well I 've been here every week and there 's no bother with them or |
| 2 | ‘ You 've been here a while , then ? ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Christina , I know I 've been here a year longer than you but I 'm sure you 've worked these things out for yourself by now . |
| 4 | Actually I 've been here a year . |
| 5 | Do n't you get critical when you 've been here a bit ? |
| 6 | ‘ I must n't frighten you before you 've been here a week , ’ Hortensia said . |
| 7 | ‘ It 's absolute rubbish to suggest I 've been even a confidante while his marriage has been breaking up . ’ |
| 8 | Er you can hire sail boats and er it 's I I 've been there a couple of times . |
| 9 | Probably the only thing is obviously I 've been there a while now so any previous employment and the people that were there are n't there any longer . |
| 10 | He said : ‘ I 've been there a month and was hoping to get a City and Guilds qualification in joinery . |
| 11 | He said : ‘ I 've been there a month and was hoping to get a City and Guilds qualification in joinery . |
| 12 | I 've been around a bit , I 've learned a thing or two , I know the score . |
| 13 | ‘ You latch on to these techniques after you 've been around a bit ’ , he said … |
| 14 | The access times considered in this chapter have been simply the time taken to position the device access mechanism to read or write a selected record . |
| 15 | Such changing managerial attitudes have been largely a result of declining profitability and the increasing challenge of Japanese firms . |
| 16 | It seems as if I have been here a lot longer than a few years , and I do not think that I could ever fit into an institutional regime again . |
| 17 | ‘ You have been here a week , Holly , I have been here one hundred times longer . |
| 18 | If the last two decades have been just a trifle one-sided , before that the competition was excellent , with first one side holding sway and then the other , which is as it should be . |
| 19 | These have been mainly the result of executive excesses , for example in the field of intelligence-gathering and the operation of such bodies as the Central Intelligence Agency ( CIA ) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation ( FBI ) . |
| 20 | ‘ Up to now , Brown , you have been only a cypher . |
| 21 | Post-1945 world politics have been basically the politics of revolution and counter-revolution , with national issues intervening only to underline or disturb the main theme . |
| 22 | ‘ There have been quite a number of ladies who have been mugged around here , ’ he said . |
| 23 | There have been quite a flood of similar announcements recently . |
| 24 | In practice , matters have been quite the reverse . |