Example sentences of "'ve been [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Yeah well it 's rare for me to come to the doctor 's but last three week I 've been here like every week , kind of thing . |
| 32 | ‘ I 've been here in Ralarth a fair while now , ’ he began , and the others stared at him . |
| 33 | Done nothing at all in their house , but since we 've been here in doing this and that , every things been changed now in it ? |
| 34 | I could easily have been overawed , I 've been thoroughly on edge all week . |
| 35 | ‘ I 've been away for a day or two ; I lost me father . ’ |
| 36 | Well , I 've been away for three , well th the winters are n't as hard now as they used to be . |
| 37 | And then again , if I 've been shut away in the Prison of Hostages , I expect I 've been away for quite a time . |
| 38 | And er if it 's more convenient , if you 've got er a lengthy inquiry , call into any tax office , the nearest one , I 've even called into tax offices when we 've been away for a weekend , just to pick up brochures and things like that . |
| 39 | We 've been away for a long time . |
| 40 | " You 've been away for ages , " she says . |
| 41 | ‘ After all , you 've been away for a long time , and you know the old saying — ’ |
| 42 | I 've been away for 10 years now and I 've been doing good work and making the right decisions about the work I do . |
| 43 | I 've been away for a week and I had about 70 messgaes to read . |
| 44 | I 've been away for the past week and had loads of messages to come back to . |
| 45 | No , cos I 've been away for a couple of days . |
| 46 | One of the , the tasks I have to do in May each year , is I write to the candidates who 've just taken a year off , who 've been away for the last two-thirds of a year , and I write to them and say , ‘ You 've been away for two-thirds of a year . |
| 47 | One of the , the tasks I have to do in May each year , is I write to the candidates who 've just taken a year off , who 've been away for the last two-thirds of a year , and I write to them and say , ‘ You 've been away for two-thirds of a year . |
| 48 | I 've spoken to Kevin Moran when we 've been away with the Republic of Ireland and he says things there are quite relaxed . |
| 49 | During the time that you 've been away from work you have certainly not been ‘ not working ’ — you have undertaken a whole host of activities which happen to have been unpaid . |
| 50 | To be able just to walk , or drive , wherever you want ; Christ , I 've been away from all this for less than a week and I feel like somebody coming out after thirty years . |
| 51 | Do n't worry , they 've been away from England for ten years … |
| 52 | I 've been away from my part of the family since I was fifteen . |
| 53 | And , of course , the job will get worse the longer you 've been away from the office . |
| 54 | You 've been away from active duty for a while , have n't you ? ’ |
| 55 | In terms of erm , return to work , er , we also er have been very good , I think , in the sense that we now offer the twenty-five per cent bonus er , after pregnancy , do n't get me wrong on that , er , what happens is , people are actually recompensed , given back the money which they 've sacrificed because they 've been away from work for six months , and they get is back over the next two years . |
| 56 | I think that 's not uncommon actually if you , when you get people who 've , who 've been away from the education system for a f a few years and I think it 's almost like mature students do have more anxiety than people who come straight from school generally speaking I think erm |
| 57 | I mean to our children , although they 've been away from Butchwana for quite a few years now it 's still home |
| 58 | Anything you say dear , you 've been away in the san , you 've been out |
| 59 | We 've been pally for years Sadie . |
| 60 | ‘ I 've been right through it but there 's no address or anything . |