Example sentences of "have [been] [adv] [prep] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Periodically the abuses surface , there is an outcry — as there has been recently in BANGLADESH — and the system is tinkered with . |
| 2 | It has been so throughout India 's recorded history . |
| 3 | She 'd been here on Friday , and he had n't ! |
| 4 | It appeared that she 'd been right about Harry Martin 's being behind the attempts to intimidate her . |
| 5 | He 'd been right about Mrs Aitken having gone to some trouble . |
| 6 | I 'd been right about Lloyd 's two-tone shoes though I had expected him to put socks on , and I was wrong about the hat — it was a white Panama . |
| 7 | He 'd been right about Bryce . |
| 8 | How could she confess that they 'd been right about Ryan ? |
| 9 | and she poddled over , she said she 'd been across to Fernbury Lodge for the first time |
| 10 | I 'd been there for Harry and the arrow had by-passed my heart . |
| 11 | ‘ Parts of the old Norman church still remain , ’ Esme explains , ‘ so would have been here in Cadfael 's day The church features in Sanctuary Sparrow and again in Eye Witness , where the blind old Welshman , Rhodri Fychan , begs by the west door . |
| 12 | ‘ It would have been just like Chris to hide the Grimoire down there , ’ Donna said , pointing towards the abyss beyond the steps . |
| 13 | ‘ It would have been just like Jean to have gone along for the journey . ’ |
| 14 | No doubt it would have been so to Descartes , Malebranche , and Locke : they might have agreed with Berkeley that what we perceive are ideas . |
| 15 | Herluin saw him , and uttered a wordless cry , rather of vexation than surprise or alarm , for by this time the steward should have been home in Ramsey , all his booty safely delivered . |
| 16 | This was Elm Road , a street in Walton , but it could have been anywhere in Liverpool or Bootle . |
| 17 | I was there If I 'd have been there to July , that year that I moved there , I would have been there twenty five years , on that road . |
| 18 | No Dawn you should have been there with Shaun , Shaun match her . |
| 19 | I do n't know if it would have been there in Flaubert 's day . |
| 20 | ‘ And you 're fingering Billy to have been here on Sunday on some sort of animal liberation commando raid ? ’ |
| 21 | She had been just past Luke when he had caught at her , and now his arms came round her from behind , drawing her back against him , and the response she dreaded was already weakening her as the warmth of him transmitted itself to her . |
| 22 | He had been apart from Irina on many occasions — too many — but a permanent separation was something he still had to get used to . |
| 23 | She had been completely on Daisy 's side , from the very beginning . |
| 24 | There were so many more than when she had been here with Morthen . |
| 25 | I had been away in London for the day , about three or four days after Dana 's departure . |
| 26 | Charlotte had a more or less regular trade with Bordeaux , but had been once to Lisbon , and twice to Las Palmas . |
| 27 | Dermot and I had been together at Eton but then Dermot was one of the Lower boys who came when I shouted " Boy " . |
| 28 | He had been twice into Ruane 's office , and the first time the block had been polite , and the second time he had been told rather less politely to sit on his hands and wait , like everybody else had to . |
| 29 | He had been twice to Iraq . |
| 30 | Tomorrow was too far distanced for his mind to wait for the last piece of evidence — a mind so ceaselessly tossing , as it had been ever since Lewis — wonderful Lewis ! — had mentioned that seemingly irrelevant item in The Oxford Times . |