Example sentences of "have [been] [adv] [prep] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd been right in thinking that he was n't seriously hurt , and they soon had him well again . |
| 2 | So the pattern would have been perhaps towards marrying later , or certainly having children later and then perhaps moving out of London . |
| 3 | Sara 's best years , Slater continued , had been just after leaving school . |
| 4 | In spite of her affected disinterest , Taureg 's return had been well worth watching . |
| 5 | Poor Sam had been backwards at coming forwards , she told herself . |
| 6 | No one , indeed , could have been more easy-going ; but we never got on close terms or found much in common during the four months we had been together since leaving England . |
| 7 | It had been so dry that two days under the warm sun had been enough without letting it stand in stooks or draping it on the hedges . |
| 8 | Harry had been all for building a full-blown ship of three hundred tons or more , with four masts , three decks , two castles and ten brass pieces into the bargain , but Sam Gristy had insisted upon a more modest outlay , and a three-masted bark had been agreed upon . |
| 9 | When her alarm woke her up the next morning , she felt heavy-eyed and lacking in energy , but that was probably because her sleep had been long in coming and had been plagued with dreams when she had eventually managed to drop off . |
| 10 | Then they were in the flat , the first time she had been there since leaving Oliver typing his letter the previous morning . |
| 11 | People 's lives were Digital oriented : many had been there since finishing second level school or university … life outside Digital was unthinkable . |
| 12 | Done nothing at all in their house , but since we 've been here in doing this and that , every things been changed now in it ? |
| 13 | so it 's not two in a row yeah , we went right , er we 've been right round looking at all shops this week and we 've had a right bloody go have n't we Alec ? |