Example sentences of "have be [adv prt] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | John Gummer , now shifted from agriculture to environment , has been around too long , but is an old chum of the prime minister . |
| 2 | The development of the clay tile industry in England has been along peculiarly narrow lines , plain tile makers tending to grow up in isolation in the Midlands , and pantile makers emerging on Humberside . |
| 3 | Well I remember feeling quite niffed because Matt was really off on Friday because he 'd been up so late |
| 4 | and cos of like this have n't had , took them down , I 'd been down there three or |
| 5 | It was the air raid shelter then and we went down there and we was in the shelter and er we 'd been down there ten minutes to quarter of an hour oh there was such a bang outside we thought this is it , you know , all the bits and stones and rubbish and er that was stuck on the ceiling was disturbed you know and it down it on top of us , you know , all bits and plaster and water th it was er shi close . |
| 6 | It was risky , especially considering he 'd been out just that previous evening , putting sugar in car and motorbike petrol tanks , but it might be a good idea anyway . |
| 7 | On such a morning , I remember dressing in a freezing bedroom , then coming down to the kitchen with its brightly flaming coal fire , dad having been up much earlier to coax the sleeping embers to life . |
| 8 | Margaret Thatcher had been up early that morning — early even by her standards — to visit Liverpool . |
| 9 | Although the war had been over almost two years when Constance celebrated her eighteenth birthday in 1947 , life was by no means back to normal . |
| 10 | Yes , they were household names — and perhaps they had been around too long . |
| 11 | Nigel had been out there several times for the commissioning of lights which he had designed , and I gathered that the alternator was a piece of equipment redundant to their present requirements . |
| 12 | But erm I was er somewhat put off altogether by comments I heard from people who had been in much closer contact than I was because I , I saw him very little of him really . |
| 13 | At a recent training course that I 've been on apparently public services could have been protected since nineteen eighty one . |
| 14 | It does n't matter what you state , cos we had heard from other pe , I 've been doing this , I 've been up here last weekend cos I am so angry about all this ! |
| 15 | And it must be , I 've been up here twenty-three years , it must be getting on for thirty years old that teapot and er I could n't have afforded that money for that stainless steel teapot , as those days , but I had it with my divi . |
| 16 | we 've been up there several times |
| 17 | ‘ Trouble with you , Pangloss , is you 've been around too long , ’ retorted Peter Panic , staring gloomily into his Perrier-with-a-twist-of-lime . |
| 18 | ‘ I 've been around too long to fall for tricks like that . |
| 19 | I know , I 've been round twice that 's what I 'm trying to say |
| 20 | I 've been down here six months now . |
| 21 | And I 've been down here two year . |
| 22 | you 've been down here two have n't you ? |
| 23 | ‘ I 've been down here half the night , waiting for someone like you , ’ the stranger said . |
| 24 | An attitude of fatalism may be seen in typical phrases from traditional low-income black American subculture such as ‘ I 've been down so long that down do n't bother me ’ , ‘ I was born under a bad sign ’ and ‘ It 's an uphill climb to the bottom ’ . |
| 25 | No I 'm not , I do n't think I am gon na come down cos I 've been down so long anyway |
| 26 | I suspect now that you know I mean I they might still to move given to one or two of my family members , but basically I could more openly say you know that in fact I suppose my view in Britain but not in Australia but my view in Britain is okay , the Royal Family could continue to exist they must A pay taxes B I do n't genuflect to any of them and C we 've got ta put them in perspective they 're in which is they 're a tourist attraction erm you know but I and I can make those comments which would be met by a lot of Britons with hostility , people who would totally disagree with me and say well they are the Royals and you know bow , bow , bow , but others would agree with me and that is something that has changed over the last three decades it really has , it 's changed during , during my absence in Australia , it is something you know that I came back to and I mean I kept , I 've been back about three or four weeks and there 's a pro I mean there 's some delightful radio programmes here comedy , political comedy shows and there was one show I listened to and I had been back a couple of weeks and it was about erm the Queen had a P R issue and she had to sort of do something about it , so she decided they 'd have a public execution of Edward and they described Edward was a cream puff and they the Queen and and er Andrew and everybody else was on the balcony at er Buck House and the crowds are cheering and the rolled and the the execution . |
| 27 | You 've been out twice this morning . |
| 28 | We 've been out together this morning , yes |
| 29 | We 've been out so long that we 've made a name for ourselves , we got props [ respect ] . |
| 30 | Even if the assumptions are unwitting or unconscious and have been around as long as the scenery , they are still potent . |