Example sentences of "have [be] [adv prt] [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ On a machine that no nome has been on for fifteen thousand years ? ’ said Masklin . |
| 2 | Modern man has been around for 4 hours . |
| 3 | The idea has been around for 80 years . |
| 4 | Strangely enough the best stress-buster of all has been around for thousands of years : massage . |
| 5 | The idea of solitary waves travelling along rivers and canals has been around since 1844. it was considered a novelty until the early 1960s , when scientists discovered that two solitary waves travelling in opposite directions need not destroy one another , but could in fact continue unscathed . |
| 6 | But no matter , and who am I to complain , certainly not to Jan , the lady of the maggots , who has been up since four and already whisked through acres of office carpet , scads of bins and oceans of scummy cups . |
| 7 | It has been up to nine or ten pound for |
| 8 | Bill Wood of Durham called about it , desisted from hurling it in this direction and merely gave the fascinating information that it has been about for 1,500 years and started off in Anglo Saxon as sacleas , meaning ‘ without strife ’ . |
| 9 | Schmeichel has been out for two matches with a poisoned hand . |
| 10 | Yeah cos if it was as bad as he said it was , I mean he would only stand up for one or two hours at a time , whereas he 'd been up since nine , he was still sitting up at one o'clock when I arrived there |
| 11 | He 'd been up since six trying to fix his motorbike . |
| 12 | Oh I did n't know W H Smith 's had been around for two hundred years . |
| 13 | According to work done in the 1970s and 1980s , there could have been up to 32 in the rocks of Burgess shale alone , including many never seen anywhere else . |
| 14 | That 's you know it was all purely hypothetical the figures they produced but er they were comparing it to what we had pr previously been producing we all sort of realized that for a set production figure we could have been up to forty pound worse off , per week . |
| 15 | No Chris should have been in at six , that 's when the first team started counting . |
| 16 | There was continued sniping about the March performance , with Rover , whose market share was down to less than 10 p.c. , claiming sales would have been down by 20 p.c. were it not for Ford ‘ buying market share ’ . |
| 17 | They are in fact the original Green products having been around since 1959 , and are so good that the company 's turnover is about £1 billion . |
| 18 | Both are US in origin , the Basler Turbo-67 having been around since 1988 and in ‘ production ’ at Oshkosh , Wisconsin , since 1990 . |
| 19 | Having been up since six and groomed Bones until the sweat ran ( his , not Bones 's ) he felt as if the day were three-quarters through . |
| 20 | He had been up since five to meet the boat from which he was being exploited . |
| 21 | She had been up since six , but respect for the Shills ' privacy had made her refrain from enquiring until 9.30 . |
| 22 | They continued their research , but their reports were no longer published ( as they had been up to 1948 ) ; and , at a time when cost research was more clearly needed than ever before , Schiller 's team was starved of funds and talent . |
| 23 | She had been up for five hours . |
| 24 | A woman of 40 came with digestive disturbance which had been around for twenty years and which had been ameliorated but not cured by previous homœopathic treatment . |
| 25 | Tommy and Iain had been out for fifteen minutes . |
| 26 | She had been out for three hours in the same seas , searching the rocky coastline off St Abbs Head . |
| 27 | She had re-established contact with her friends and had been out on one occasion in the previous week . |
| 28 | The night of Mandy Kelly 's murder George had been out on one of his walks . |
| 29 | The problem of the cut-off water supply — it had been off since eight that morning — had made it much worse . |
| 30 | It was hard not to think of life as it had been back in 1986 , or in Terry 's and Tom 's case , 1985 . |