Example sentences of "[pron] have been [adv] [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The nationality rule was a beautiful get-out for them , but I only had a few months to go before I 'd been here for ten years and would have been entitled to fight for the title . |
| 2 | And I 'd been there from six in the morning till quarter to nine . |
| 3 | ‘ But I 'd been home for two hours when Silvia got back . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Well , I 've been away for three , well th the winters are n't as hard now as they used to be . |
| 6 | I 've been up since six . ’ |
| 7 | No , he 'll be out went out at ten to seven but over a sort of I 've been up since seven , I 've not really sat down all day . |
| 8 | ‘ I 've been here for six months . ’ |
| 9 | She said , ‘ I 've been here for three weeks , I have n't seen one movie star until now , ’ and she came over and got my autograph . |
| 10 | Well , Jim , I 've been here for three years , and no real food from that day to this . |
| 11 | Er , I 've been now for six and a half years , I think , at the last count , er , I know I 've served just over half my sentence . |
| 12 | Yes er what what er the pitch I think in fact I 've heard them say this er because I 've been out with two of the top fliers up here |
| 13 | I 've been out for five days ? ’ he demanded incredulously . |
| 14 | ‘ This is the first time I 've been back in eight years , ’ says Brenda , who is at the Glasgow Royal Concert Hall tonight and the Playhouse , Edinburgh , tomorrow . |
| 15 | I 've been off for three or four time before for long a few years and |
| 16 | Yes I have been here until 1.00 a.m. or 2.00 a.m. in the morning when they have the gigs . |
| 17 | A woman of 40 came with digestive disturbance which had been around for twenty years and which had been ameliorated but not cured by previous homœopathic treatment . |
| 18 | Sinead had a hard time at school because she was a newcomer in a class which had been together for two years , and some of her fellow pupils knew her recent history . |
| 19 | ‘ I ca n't begin to say what I think about these people who stole the plaque and the names of the servicemen which had been there for forty-eight years . ’ |
| 20 | But no matter , and who am I to complain , certainly not to Jan , the lady of the maggots , who has been up since four and already whisked through acres of office carpet , scads of bins and oceans of scummy cups . |
| 21 | Two long-serving ministers , Dr Brian Mawhinney , who has been there since 1986 , and Mr Richard Needham , since 1985 , both return to senior posts in mainland ministries . |
| 22 | She has been there for two years . |
| 23 | You got half an hour plus ten minutes relief for your refreshments and that would happen at ten in the morning and you 'd been there since seven . |
| 24 | I was n't afraid of losing my boyfriend while I was in prison , because I 've seen people who 've been in for two years and their boyfriends still come and see them . |
| 25 | ‘ So you 've been here for two years , ’ teased Tony as she looked for her key and opened the door , ‘ and still no boyfriend ? ’ |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | She had been up since six , but respect for the Shills ' privacy had made her refrain from enquiring until 9.30 . |
| 28 | She had been up for five hours . |
| 29 | She had been here for twenty minutes , during which time Alida Thorne had backtracked and made difficulties , pretended not to understand . |
| 30 | She had been out for three hours in the same seas , searching the rocky coastline off St Abbs Head . |