Example sentences of "have be [adv prt] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 And me bloody petrol gauge has been on half way along Scunnie Road .
2 Lucy Wedderburn , the young medical registrar , has been up all night inserting drains and carefully drawing out bloodstained fluid , and she 's still on duty , witty and vivacious through the exhaustion .
3 ‘ He has been out three times today and hopefully we can turn him out in a paddock tomorrow . ’
4 The book has been out several months , of course , now .
5 D' ya know I think , I think , I think it has been out this year .
6 he 'd been round last Friday , on Thursday she rang
7 He 'd been up all night .
8 He arrived at the interview in shades , because he 'd been up all night speeding , and a leather jacket .
9 and we 'd been up all night serving troops and er , you see , and then the Manager said , well look er now and have some breakfast before we get th another telegram and we were next door to the Telegram Office , you see , and when , when the erm war , during the war , you see , the man would come out of the Telegraph Office and he would say er and er , you see , all the lights went out except a few lights along the back of the counter .
10 Only two or three of the terminals were occupied , by guys who looked as if they 'd been up all night and who were already on to their second pack of cigarettes .
11 I 'd been out all day and was ravenous , but the strange woman made me nervous of settling down to eat .
12 So she 'd been out all day to this cousin 's at Blakely She goes on a Monday now .
13 Must of been , cos they 'd been out all day .
14 So we 'd had a we 'd been out all night and all day and achieved nothing but it was , course it was exercises .
15 She 'd been out ten minutes , fifteen at the most .
16 As late as 1863 he could still assure his mother that he might turn his attention to almost any subject , but it must have been around this time that a first decision in favour of classics was taken , even though it was not until 1865 at Leipzig that his academic specialization became complete .
17 ‘ If you had n't come I would have been up all night . ’
18 it would have been about that time , yes , or soon after
19 what 's happening is that the membership handbook should have been out last week but I think it 's actually going out physically today and I 've done a reminder which 'll be mailed out with it erm making one or two little pointed remarks about blah blah blah this is a very important event and please note it is not in Edinburgh you know erm S S K are very supportive of us we should you know take advantage of this very important
20 However , having been off last week , I have n't been able to do that , but I have made all the amendments and I was only going to talk us through those that needed everybody to know about them .
21 Trudging back one evening , having been out all day and having had no luck , Charles spotted a large heap of rocks on the hillside above them , and asked what it was .
22 He had been up all night shadowing a team of poachers , until they had been manoeuvred into the welcoming arms of the constabulary .
23 It could only be about eight o'clock — her old-fashioned watch , unwound this morning , had stopped — but she felt as if she had been up all night , working to meet an insane deadline .
24 It looked as if both men had been up all night .
25 He looked terrible , his face blotched and patchy , his eyes red , as though he had been up all night .
26 ‘ Police and many volunteers had been up all night looking for them .
27 He had been up seventeen hours .
28 He had arrived at the Laboratory over an hour late , at ten o'clock , looking terribly tired because he had been up that night at the scene of crime , and had come over to the reception desk to collect his personal post .
29 The mast had been up three months and Kaptan still had one week of his vacation left when Osvaldo made his move .
30 Then the rain which had been around all day drove them inside the house , where , bored , they wandered restlessly though the rooms .
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