Example sentences of "[pron] have [been] [prep] [adj] [coord] " in BNC.
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1 | No no I 've been on one and they do do it properly . |
2 | ‘ I 've been on 10 or 11 tours in my career and it 's time that I spent a little while with my family . |
3 | This has been hanging about for a long , long time while I 've been on this and these people and they 're very special people I 've got this sword of hanging over my head . |
4 | I think I think I 've been to one or two in York . |
5 | Yes Chairer , why do n't we pat ourselves on our , on the back about this it would it be useful i in in the the report , a further report that 's gon na come forward if there could be some indication as to actual format that was adopted when a person goes to one of his welfare panels , cos I 've been to three and there does n't seem to be any consistency whatsoever in the way that things occur or whatever ! |
6 | She had been with fitzAlan and — |
7 | Well she had been on one or two things , not a lot on the television but er , we . |
8 | Accordingly when , in 1811 , the shearmen of the West Riding , locally known as " croppers " , who had been in regular and supportive contact with the Wiltshire shearmen throughout their struggle , faced the introduction of machinery in their turn , the " peaceful " option of petitioning parliament had been foreclosed . |
9 | There had been in 1983 and 1984 , two great festivals of athletics : the first ever World Championships in Helsinki and the Olympic Games in Los Angeles , respectively . |
10 | Even in the urban core where there has been massive population loss associated with slum clearance , there were almost as many dwellings in 1981 as there had been in 1961 and , as Table 3.4 shows , the area now has a far higher standard of amenity . |
11 | On average prices were around 25 per cent lower between 1720 and 1780 than they had been between 1660 and 1680 . |
12 | Although there had been brief conflicts between England and France in the reigns of Edward I and Edward II , the reasons for war were now much more substantial than they had been in 1294 or 1324 , and the will to war on the part of the king , if not yet on the part of most of the nobility , was much more apparent . |
13 | Trade unions were in fact in a much stronger position in 1933 than they had been in 1921 or 1922 . |
14 | We know how tough it has been for many but we are poised to move forward again , lacking only the spark of confidence with which a Conservative victory would ignite recovery . |
15 | But Spain would never again be as politically and economically isolated as it had been between 1945 and 1950 . |
16 | If the movement of the workers had been clearly revolutionary , or at least sharply segregated from the middle-class world ( as it had been before 1848 and was to be again in the era of the second International ) , the distinction would have been clear enough . |
17 | By the time he had been through that and was ready to return , Jennifer had been married and divorced and was almost a stranger again . |
18 | I do n't make any apologies for that , and maybe it is going over the old ground , but unless we do it , unless we try to do it , if we 've done it the way before been and it has n't produced what we , what we want , then surely it 's not for us to sit back and say , ‘ Well , it 's been through that and it has n't worked ’ , surely we ought to try again , and that 's what I hope to be doing , sort of value your support and see you . |
19 | Greg Downs says the club is in a better position than it 's been for eight or nine years and if they can play as well as last year they 've got a good chance |