Example sentences of "have [been] [adv] [prep] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So the more you invest in curious methods of murder — your melting ice-dagger , your piano-key trigger — the more you increase the risk that some ingenious author has been there before you . |
| 2 | It always has been so with me , and will be . |
| 3 | William always went that step further into life 's nightmares , and he 'd been closer to it , to start with . |
| 4 | Why , it was almost half-past ten , yet there was no Ace , nor any signs that he 'd been downstairs before her . |
| 5 | But when we moved in here , because I 'd been away from him for five months and I 'd learned to cope for myself , I started standing up for myself and he did n't like it . |
| 6 | I 'd seen no sign of Mala , but I had n't expected it , since she 'd been right about us being less obvious if we were apart . |
| 7 | Mr. Stewart said : ‘ If the tree takes to its new location the effort will have been well worth it and I am very grateful for the co-operation of the builders . |
| 8 | I should have been here for you a long time ago . |
| 9 | You should have been here with me tonight . ’ |
| 10 | It would have been just like her to take a method like this to exact a petty revenge for their disagreements , landing Folly with a pile of unwanted stock that she could n't refuse without souring relations with her supplier . |
| 11 | That … kiss … would have been truly for you , no one else . ’ |
| 12 | But no , he was n't killed for that , or it would n't have been still on him . |
| 13 | But there must have been more to it than that . |
| 14 | Then a fortnight ago I had a cataract removed , but there must have been more to it than that , because not only am I startled by the brightness of things , but the vision in that eye is practically perfect , so I am not wearing glasses most of the time , though for faint or small print ( not piano music : hooray ) I shall have to get some more specs . |
| 15 | If she knew he was near , watching her from that distant , unimaginable place , then these past months of playing her part , of continuing Mark 's glorious laughter and zest for life in a sort of living memorial to his spirit — well , then it would have been all worth it . |
| 16 | Your Uncle Jack would have been all over him . ’ |
| 17 | Kissing Ludovico in the cramped registry office , in front of strangers , she wished that her mother , Louise , Miss Hatherby and so many others could have been there with them . |
| 18 | Other unique material in the Southern Collection includes the unpublished manuscript notebooks of the distinguished theatre historian , William John Lawrence , who was born in Dublin in 1862 , and of whom it was once said that to whatever aspect of theatre history the student may turn , Lawrence will have been there before him . |
| 19 | The prunes were good but with three extra stones in the juice Christopher wondered who might have been there before him . |
| 20 | Then he discovered Ash had been beforehand with him . |
| 21 | Someone else had been here before him , tearing open the bags of perishables in search of anything worthy of rescue . |
| 22 | She said she sometimes longed to go out , to a disco or an amusement arcade and be with other girls , but her uncle was strict and did n't like her going to those places , and although she was sometimes lonely she could n't stand the thought of going back to that school , especially now she had been away from it for so long because anyway her friends would n't be there any more and she would be treated like a little girl and the things they had to do would seem more stupid than ever because in her uncle s house she was treated like a grown-up , which she was anyway , and she ran the house . |
| 23 | There had been less between her and Lucy after the ‘ act ’ than ever before . |
| 24 | However , during our visit to India he had been constantly with us , and in Jaipur I had experienced a gratifying sense of shared adventure ; but it was perhaps in the camp where we went each year from the Legation for an eagerly awaited ten days that I remember him most vividly . |
| 25 | We had failed to locate a single prahu master , or " nakoda " , who had been anywhere near them , or had the slightest interest in doing so , and it was now so late in the west monsoon that there only remained another six weeks before we would no longer be able to depart without risking the winds dying and starting to reverse themselves before we had reached our destination . |
| 26 | It had been enough for her that he was a man who thought his house a good point of departure for the Piero della Francesca trail . |
| 27 | Sister Cas. was not often bloodyminded , and this was the first time she had been so with me . |
| 28 | She had made a wrong choice a year ago , had put Steve and her career before the man she loved , but there had been more to it than that . |
| 29 | I only wish there had been more like him in my life . ’ |
| 30 | Now , if I had been more like you , Catherine … |