Example sentences of "have [be] [adv prt] [det] " 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 | The book has been out several months , of course , now . |
4 | D' ya know I think , I think , I think it has been out this year . |
5 | He 'd been up all night . |
6 | He arrived at the interview in shades , because he 'd been up all night speeding , and a leather jacket . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | So we 'd had a we 'd been out all night and all day and achieved nothing but it was , course it was exercises . |
10 | I 'd been out all day and was ravenous , but the strange woman made me nervous of settling down to eat . |
11 | So she 'd been out all day to this cousin 's at Blakely She goes on a Monday now . |
12 | Must of been , cos they 'd been out all day . |
13 | 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 . |
14 | ‘ If you had n't come I would have been up all night . ’ |
15 | it would have been about that time , yes , or soon after |
16 | 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 . |
17 | He had been up all night shadowing a team of poachers , until they had been manoeuvred into the welcoming arms of the constabulary . |
18 | 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 . |
19 | It looked as if both men had been up all night . |
20 | He looked terrible , his face blotched and patchy , his eyes red , as though he had been up all night . |
21 | ‘ Police and many volunteers had been up all night looking for them . |
22 | 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 . |
23 | Alice Pell — who for two years said she ate , slept and breathed the 1964 pie and had been up half the night cooking it — was there happily serving up the 1988 one . |
24 | He had been up half the previous night upon a quite different case , and all this night upon this , which had only just become a case , and his , after all . |
25 | Then the rain which had been around all day drove them inside the house , where , bored , they wandered restlessly though the rooms . |
26 | We told him that you had been out all night and that you were catching up on some sleep . |
27 | Zbo , who had been out all day trying to sell his paintings , returned to find Modigliani sleeping off his drunken stupor on their sofa . |
28 | I had been out all day with my gun , but without success . |
29 | I had been out all day and I had eaten nothing since breakfast . |
30 | They had been out all morning considering the case . |