Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] have [adv] [been] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Now of course it would depend very much on and whether you were in a drought situation as we were until last year or whether it 's like we 've been over this last summer and early winter which is that virtually not a day has passed without we 've had some rain , in which case obviously the roof is going to get cleaned up very much quicker but I have to say that although I 've always been under the impression that it 's not a good idea to save water off a new felt roof er because of deposits that come off the mineral felt .
2 Part of the problem is that I 've already been through all this pregnancy stuff with Wife Number One .
3 But the fact that I 've never been to England before does n't make me a complete bumpkin .
4 ‘ My wife rightly points out that I 've never been in a ladies ' loo in my life .
5 I have been here that long I thought that I had already been on … ‘
6 Right now , in the familiar clutter of my office , I had this feeling in my water that I had never been in the room before .
7 The meeting was held in Harvey Haddon Stadium in Nottingham , and it was the first time that I had ever been on an Inter-City train .
8 You might like to know that I have recently been in touch with a Mme Francine Roussel ( University of Nancy II , 23 Blvd Albert 1e , Nancy 54000 ) who is just completing a survey review of concordancers .
9 Baroness Seear , a leader of the Liberal peers for several years , remarks that ‘ I can honestly say that I have never been in a place that treats you better on male-female equality .
10 This is the sad thing in my life that I have never been in contact with my grandchildren .
11 I was probably more afraid than I 'd ever been in my life but I was too busy to notice it .
12 Our friendship had brought us closer than I had ever been with anyone before .
13 I was going to be lazier than I had ever been in my life !
14 My perennial thoughts of transsexualism and suicide never left me , but in many ways I was happier than I had ever been in my life .
15 I 'm happier today than I 've ever been in my whole life .
16 ‘ I 'm fitter than I 've ever been in my life .
17 ‘ I am happier with Gwen than I have ever been in my life — I love her very deeply and I miss her when I 'm not there . ’
18 She told the interpreter that ‘ although she had never been to school she liked the life she lived . ’
19 Sylvia , the elder married one , was well-built and healthy , but that was the best that could be said for her ; Mrs Wexford had a magnificent figure and a fine profile although she had never been of the stuff that wins beauty contests .
20 It was strange , too , Anne thought , that everyone got on with their normal lives , in spite of the constant raids and disturbed nights , and had become used to seeing servicemen in so many different uniforms thronging the streets and the cinemas , and in the public houses she was sure , although she had never been in one .
21 Compassionate and relentless as God ( in whom she does not believe ) , she sends her creatures forth and calls them home , having ( like Thomas Hardy ) a love for funerals , although she has never been to one .
22 She once reported to Robert Landgrebe , marketing manager , in a voice of genuine shock that she had just been on an aeroplane with three accountants ‘ and do you know , they tried to talk to me about design ’ .
23 I even found it difficult to believe that she had ever been in cahoots with Mr Broadhurst .
24 That she had always been in control before he had come on to the scene and turned everything upside-down .
25 Wellington 's riposte was that she had never been to South Africa , while he had and was therefore in a position to judge properly .
26 This was challenged by one of the defendants who maintained that she had never been on stage in a state of total nudity , as the police present maintained .
27 Her situation is slightly more complicated in that she has also been in prison .
28 One moment she had been happier than she 'd ever been in her life , the next she was alone again .
29 With a sense of shock Harriet realised that in the last hours Paula had become more of a stranger to her than she had ever been during the twenty years she had believed her dead .
30 She was more frightened than she had ever been in her life , but fright gave her strength .
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