Example sentences of "have [been] [adv] [prep] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now he he ca n't do that now because there 's a public alleyway through , and the public alleyway has been here at least since sixteen ninety one . |
| 2 | ‘ The fishery has been here for over 400 years , so we want to make sure we maintain it for future generations , ’ said Mr Horne . |
| 3 | Your fax has been here for about a week now , I 'll bring it down for you . |
| 4 | ‘ This outfit has been together for almost three years , everyone knows each other , we all get on and there 's no prima donnas etime . ’ |
| 5 | Sandra said : ‘ It has been a very worthwhile project from the health and safety aspect by a very successful QC team which has been together for almost three years . ’ |
| 6 | As Labov and Sankoff point out ( 1980 : xi ) , the emphasis in recent years arising naturally from the maturing of sociolinguistics as a research area has been less on purely methodological concerns such as measurement techniques and the presentation of correlational relationships between linguistic and social structure . |
| 7 | It has been there for more than ten years . |
| 8 | That truck has been there at least three days . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ When a person has been underground for so many years it 's a new lease of life ’ ; ‘ it 's just a grand feeling . ’ |
| 10 | She 'd been there for less than two weeks when her employers discovered she has leukaemia . |
| 11 | And er then we erm we , we , we went on the wards for about two or three hours a day and we just s sort of did what we were told , took out drinks and , and that sort of thing , and mouthwashes , and after er we 'd been there for about six or eight weeks we were allowed to wash patients , if , if they could n't wash themselves . |
| 12 | They 'd been there for more than fifteen years . |
| 13 | And he thinks the fact that they could have been away for more than two weeks now may have been noticed by neighbours , family or friends . |
| 14 | She and Tom must have been here for quite a long time , then . |
| 15 | ‘ He should have been here by now , ’ she announced . |
| 16 | Even if there had been three fatal accidents on the Piccadilly line in from Heathrow plus two mechanical failures beyond London Transport 's control , he should have been here by now . |
| 17 | If she had n't been with him she 'd have been here before now . |
| 18 | The Russian did not think he could have been dead for long . |
| 19 | one which must have been probably about so thick |
| 20 | Police are also anxious to trace anyone who may have been nearby between 9pm and 10:30pm . |
| 21 | She knew that her husband would take no risks and yet he should have been home by now . |
| 22 | Had that been a steady red light it would n't have been anywhere near as noticeable |
| 23 | So in reality they need never have been all at exactly the same place , only very close together . |
| 24 | Assuming the car had gone missing at the same ti me as Angela Morgan , it might have been there for over a week ; it had only been found that evening by a uniformed constable who was keeping his eyes open . |
| 25 | If there had been a man up the tree on the night of Mary Connon 's death — and a conversation with Kathy Grogan earlier that morning had convinced him , though her interpretation of the written word might be naively literal , there was nothing wrong with her senses , then that man could have been there for only one of three purposes . |
| 26 | The males , now about 18 inches long , may have spent only three years in the rivers ; the females in the higher reaches may have been there for as many as eight or nine and are three times as long . |
| 27 | It should have been there by now and its non-appearance is a real wind-up . |
| 28 | She should have been there by then . |
| 29 | On 30 November 1766 , having been away for over three years , the Mozarts returned to Salzburg . |
| 30 | Standing on the draining board was an old , chipped saucer containing a slab of soap which was yellow as cheese and rock hard , its surface covered in deep cracks and giving the appearance of having been there for ever . |