Example sentences of "have [been] [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because the common holly , Ilex aquifolium , has been around a long time and produced many ornamental varieties , you will find quite a few with fancy botanical names . |
| 2 | But as I 've already mentioned distributed database theory has been around a long time . |
| 3 | In marriages in which only one of the partners has been down the aisle before , the number of divorces has jumped 67 per cent since 1980 . |
| 4 | What should the post-Christian then hold of the religion that there has been down the ages ? |
| 5 | We 're all well and your mother has been out a good deal . |
| 6 | ‘ Luci Hayter looked as if she 'd been up every night for a week . |
| 7 | We went there on Sunday , me and Bella , after we 'd been down the prom . ’ |
| 8 | I 'd been down the prom on my bike , and was riding up the posh part to our street . |
| 9 | I remember one time er these barges , old barges when you used to come up there , they ai n't got any engine in 'em at all because now they got motors in 'em , but erm , at that time , I was asleep one night and er these barges had been up , they 'd been down the the engine room , cos the engine room and the stoke hall was all in one and th and then I was so sound asleep they 'd filled the sacks up with coal and took them up over the and took the only thing they did do they did n't take the shovel they 'd used , cos they bought their shovel from off the barge and they left that downhill that 's how they 'd pinched the coal . |
| 10 | The others went in the car and when I arrived on the bike a little later they 'd been down the 51 steps to the house and found it like the Marie Celeste , everything open , radio playing but no-one around . |
| 11 | And they 'd been down the Lake District , they were from the Lake district . |
| 12 | I 'd been out the army about three days and I went to this dance with some army mates . |
| 13 | He must have been up a tree . |
| 14 | Peering through the cobwebs at the stable clock , Umberto realized he should have been up an hour ago . |
| 15 | Otherwise he 'd have been down the line after us like a shot . |
| 16 | And , of course , having been around a long time . |
| 17 | Having been up a ladder , only I could see how easy it is , you could fall off a ladder as simply as anything . |
| 18 | He is also much younger , 23 , than I thought — he seemed to have been around a long time . |
| 19 | Because it has n't been updated since 1973 some words which seems to have been around a while -palimony , Watergate and glasnost for instance have only just made it . |
| 20 | very pretty and er , it looks as if she ought to have been up the disco having a dance , any way |
| 21 | Belmodes had been around a long time . |
| 22 | This was the lake that we were going to spend our time on and although these lakes had n't been fished much we did have the benefit of some information given to us by Joe Taylor who had been out a few weeks prior to us . |
| 23 | Most people agreed that Pike had been out the night before working on it with an industrial fan . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | From the look of the pile of branches , Travis had been back a few times , but he was absent still as she added her load to the mound . |
| 26 | None of the five Moroccans had been down the Nfis and verbal information gleaned had been contradictory . |
| 27 | But erm it 's quite hard if you 've been up a lot at night and then you have to go and do the whole of the next day of work , but fortunately our rotas are n't too bad so we 're never on two nights in a row compared with the hospital which was quite a lot harder work . |
| 28 | I was up going on the ski slope , and this is like , I 've been up a couple of times before , but it had been really cold and bi and I went at Easter , I was so like hot , but it 's still really good snow , and we went up there and I just could n't believe it , I just went dad , erm , oh , I do n't feel too good , and he just went , do n't be so stupid , and Nathan and I collapsed , I was at the front of this queue waiting for the ski lift and the whole queue just went |
| 29 | ‘ So you 've been up the barrow , ’ Jos said out of the blue , as he lined up on the final double . |
| 30 | No , no there 's not I mean I 've been doing this for fifteen years , and quite simply is , if you like , I 've been up the ladder , the contacts that were I 've had were relatively junior fifteen years ago |