Example sentences of "have been [adv prt] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well the estate agent er area has been around now for twenty years so they 're rather used to us in that . |
| 2 | Kathmandu is over four thousand feet high … that 's why race favourite Hugh Jones … the first Brit to win the London Marathon has been out here for a week training … |
| 3 | And er the trainer on medical practices has been out there for a long long time doing this so there 's a lot a wealth of experience there . |
| 4 | For as long as I have been conscious she has been out there in front of me , dodging arrows , triggering ambushes ; doubling back to brief me on the safest and fastest route forward . |
| 5 | Street , and the bottom lamp has been out now for six weeks . |
| 6 | Some of the passengers must have been up just after dawn to watch the huge liner ease its way gently alongside the dock , and those who were n't were beginning gradually to emerge on the upper decks , or to enjoy breakfast by one of the pools . |
| 7 | ‘ You 'd have been up there with the best of them by now . ’ |
| 8 | She 'd have been up there on her Sunday off , bursting with the news . |
| 9 | It must have been up there for years , it weighed at least 14 carats and sat like a throbbing lime fruit pastille on the back of my unmoving hand . |
| 10 | ‘ They should n't have been up there at all ! ’ said the Rais . |
| 11 | ‘ You know , ’ said Lesley , busy at the coffee-tray , ‘ I must have been out there about the same time . |
| 12 | In another age Preston would have been out there with the self-flagellants , scourging away for all he was worth . |
| 13 | And if she had n't met Ryan , Ryan with the lovely smile , Ryan the leech , she would have been out there with them . |
| 14 | He put it in a nutshell when he said she was the sort of girl who , if there had been a meadow handy , would have been out there in a flash picking cowslips . |
| 15 | ‘ If it were n't for you I 'd never have been out there in the first place . ’ |
| 16 | The trestle-tables were full ; people drinking , eating and reading ; the Germans we had teamed up with for part of the way back looking smug , though they could n't have been down much before us . |
| 17 | When British forces assembled in the Gulf in 1990 , elements of the Armilla Patrol had been out there for most of the previous decade . |
| 18 | People who had been out together at Castle Menzies , then on down to the Reel of Ballechin , conversed steadily , opening up their private problems to each other with a freedom well beyond the usual . |
| 19 | Two Rob Roy canoes had been in ahead of the main raiding force on the night of 22/3 November , one pair of these canoeists were caught — described later — and the second missed their rendezvous , paddling back to England . |
| 20 | They had been down here in Devon for almost two weeks , and already she had fallen under the lazy , carefree spell of the tranquil countryside . |
| 21 | we were gon na go down there , but erm nan and granddad had been down there about a fortnight ago and they said they had n't got a lot out yet , they said they would n't be out for about another three weeks , so about |
| 22 | ‘ You 've been up there for two days . |
| 23 | Sometimes when I 've been up early at home walking in the woods and come upon a roe deer close to , motionless , its alarm and scenting has reminded me of her . |
| 24 | They know me and Paul and Steve 'cos we 've been around here in this bit of the London Road for three seasons now and they know that we would n't let them down . ’ |
| 25 | We 've been around now for two and a half years erm we work as support workers , I suppose , like erm community workers or social workers in some contexts . |
| 26 | my kids have n't had any food all weekend that I 've paid for because you did n't send me my giro , they 've had their meals because they 've been round there at grandma 's , but I 'm not telling you that , yeah , you know . |
| 27 | I 've been down here for bloody nine years I 've missed it a bit |
| 28 | We 've been back together for so long I 'd almost forgotten about it . |
| 29 | But I 've been back recently as a teacher so it 's I 've to do a quick change act from a twin-set and pearls into a beret and er smock to become an artist . |
| 30 | I said I 've been out here for about twenty minutes I better go back in . |