Example sentences of "[pron] have [adv] be [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then she said , quietly , ‘ Yes , although I have n't been here for a long time . |
| 2 | I have n't been here for years , although the land belongs to me . |
| 3 | ‘ I have n't been here for very long . |
| 4 | I have n't been here for ages and ages ! |
| 5 | When it , and the Government can produce fifty pieces of legislation affecting local government since nineteen seventy nine , I have n't been here since nineteen seventy nine thankfully , so I have to analyze everything , but they always landed our the ma the major ones and , so for example erm , it was the Local government Unit that produced the initial response of the Poll Tax , what strategy the Council should adopt er , the Council wo n't distance approach , we wanted to make it clear that the Poll Tax was a Government erm , it was a Government initiative and it was being forcedly on us and that was the way , did that effect it , that was a guided and then there was the nineteen eight nine local Government Housing Act , which I 'm sure many of you . |
| 6 | Nothing else has changed ; I have n't been here since that day a week after Clare died , and it had the same muddily washed-out look about it then . |
| 7 | ‘ I have n't been home since Easter , ’ she said . |
| 8 | I have n't been there for oh I 'm always going down there for petrol now . |
| 9 | I have n't been there for over a , a year or more I think last time I was there |
| 10 | I mean , there could I mean I think the House of Commons is now some way past in in my life in the sense I have n't been there since er June . |
| 11 | For some years now I have not been much in society . |
| 12 | And though I have not been there at the right season for many years , for all I know they live there still — a small , brown , undemonstrative little butterfly , not immediately noticed by an untrained eye . |
| 13 | I have not been there since yesterday morning . ’ |
| 14 | I have now been here for over a week , and am beginning to get into the swing of things . |
| 15 | In this context , the youngster must come to terms with his or her changing and changed body ; must try out the precepts , attitudes and ideals of childhood against the demands of the transitional and later groups among which existence now lies ; must establish himself or herself as an individual with rights and responsibilities and with a unique and largely self-determinant personality ; and must cope with feelings and impulses which have previously been only of the vaguest and most unformulable nature . |
| 16 | Look out for companies who have n't been around for long : they could be out of business just as soon . |
| 17 | The players who have not been here before now know what the New Zealand experience is like . ’ |
| 18 | It was known , also , that the old lady had been friendly with his mother ; and anyway , being a bachelor and retired , he could usually be counted on to take sufferers to hospital in emergency , or bring them home ; as well as visiting murderers in prison , and other tasks ( often called do-gooding by people who have never been remotely in need of that particular little world ) . |
| 19 | ‘ You have n't been here for weeks — all the time I was ill . |
| 20 | You have n't been here for last week did you ? |
| 21 | And you have n't been abroad in the past six months ? |
| 22 | You have n't been there for ages . |
| 23 | We have n't been together for three months . |
| 24 | ‘ Friday nights because we have n't been together for four nights , Sundays because we know there are another four ahead of us , and … why Saturdays ? ’ |
| 25 | No they have n't been here at all . |