Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [been] [adv] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | And my enormous thanks go to my own Table , Chester seventy six , very very true friends indeed and the same for the whole of my own area , Area thirty six Wirral and the Marches , where nothing has been too much trouble and they are here today as you 've just seen in some considerable strength . |
2 | Cos I 'd been there that morning |
3 | I 'd been out all day and was ravenous , but the strange woman made me nervous of settling down to eat . |
4 | I had been out all day with my gun , but without success . |
5 | I had been out all day and I had eaten nothing since breakfast . |
6 | But I 've been up all night . |
7 | I 've been up all night , thinking . |
8 | I 've been up all night working on these . ’ |
9 | Certainly when we get settled in after Christmas that should be and I 'll shall say about six rolls but I 'll shall say six rolls and just the every time I get one roll of wallpaper up and you you 'll think oh I 'll do the rest tomorrow just a bit more , then you get one more looks alright there , the other wall and er , I 'm sat , I 've been up all night doing this shall do one more then I 'll go a bed , I get from the wife bloody hell mother what time did you go to bed , about an hour ago , could n't leave it wallpaper . |
10 | I 've been up all night . |
11 | ‘ I 've been here all day — here in Oxford ! ’ |
12 | I 've been here all morning . |
13 | ‘ I 've been here some time now and it 's never happened before . ’ |
14 | ‘ It 's nigh on two year since I 've been out that house , ’ said Bella suddenly , ‘ since the Warden took me for that X-ray after I fell over and hurt me wrist . ’ |
15 | Well I 've been out all afternoon so I wondered if you 'd phoned in this afternoon . |
16 | I 've been out all day . |
17 | If I was on the streets of Ireland now , and I 've been there many occasions and someone said to me , look at that Welsh get there , I would just have to take it . |
18 | ‘ Yes , it 's a pot I 've been down many times — not the easiest ; apart from a fifty-foot pitch we 'll have to haul him up , there 's a long sump we 'll have to bring the injured man back through which could be tricky if he 's unconscious or uncooperative . |
19 | ‘ I know this because I have been here several times when I was younger . |
20 | But I have been up all night comma , too tired , but I was really homesick . |
21 | I have been there many times and had many unshakeable criticisms , which now have , of course , been shaken . ’ |
22 | I have been there many times , both for business and for pleasure . ’ |
23 | ‘ When I think back , knowing what I know now — and I have been so many places , and looked into the windows of other people 's lives , and I have seen so much — I still ca n't say for sure what Gittel really wanted . |
24 | But even this has not stopped my love for canoeing as I have been out many times since and this summer , when I was at camp , I was going down a weir , when I got caught in a stopper at the bottom and nearly drowned myself again . |
25 | Three years later , the Siemens brothers extended cable communications even further by implementing an 11,000km telegraph line between London and Calcutta , a very considerable achievement , one which had been yet another adventure , the sort that provided — like the Atlantic cable saga — the densely-packed reports and darkly realistic illustration for which the Illustrated London News had become justifiably renowned . |
26 | Then the rain which had been around all day drove them inside the house , where , bored , they wandered restlessly though the rooms . |
27 | She is older than the rocks among which she sits ; like the vampire , she has been dead many times , and learned the secrets of the grave ; and has been a diver in deep seas , and keeps their fallen day about her ; and trafficked for strange webs with Eastern merchants ; and , as Leda , was the mother of Helen of Troy , and , as Saint Anne , the mother of Mary ; and all this has been to her but as the sound of lyres and flutes , and lives only in the delicacy with which it has moulded the changing lineaments , and tinged the eyelids and the hands . |
28 | It is a memorable evocation , casting a spell over the reader : ‘ She is older than the rocks among which she sits ; like the vampire , she has been dead many times , and learned the secrets of the grave ; and has been a diver in deep seas , and keeps their fallen day about her … ’ |
29 | So she 'd been out all day to this cousin 's at Blakely She goes on a Monday now . |
30 | Erm there 's been a reduction er , in the er , staff er because er er people have moved on and er , I take Sue 's point about er if it were n't for the fact that erm they 'd got fully e e experienced staff who 've been there some time , they have n't , not used to this churning over o of , and therefore , that has paid off in er in er in erm so far as being able to deal with the problems that have arisen and er , you 'll see further on er , addition profiles of the work that 's been done with er in this area over the town . |