Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] have [be] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only she 's been out in the garden nearly all morning . |
| 2 | Ruth was n't even sure how long she had been back in Palma . |
| 3 | how long you 've been off for , to unemployment |
| 4 | How has it been for yourself , obviously you 've been here with your children , your husband 's been away for more than a month , in Iraq , there must have been er terrible thoughts going through you mind at certain times ? |
| 5 | He he had us all lined up after we 'd been riding round and he started enquiring how long we 'd been out of hospital . |
| 6 | So we 've been up for some time cos the arms are wet where he 'd been sucking it ! |
| 7 | Employment Training should be opened up to unemployed people over 50 , irrespective of how long they have been out of work . |
| 8 | Apparently he 's been down at Streatley since the weekend , but Joanne says he should be back today . |
| 9 | Perhaps it had been all in her imagination , fuelled by her own desires . |
| 10 | No , no I 've never been down and er they 've always been full of water whenever I 've been up around there . |
| 11 | Honestly I have been Up To My Eyes in it recently . |
| 12 | She said she sometimes longed to go out , to a disco or an amusement arcade and be with other girls , but her uncle was strict and did n't like her going to those places , and although she was sometimes lonely she could n't stand the thought of going back to that school , especially now she had been away from it for so long because anyway her friends would n't be there any more and she would be treated like a little girl and the things they had to do would seem more stupid than ever because in her uncle s house she was treated like a grown-up , which she was anyway , and she ran the house . |
| 13 | and I thought well I 'm not gon na eat them now they 've been out of bag , so I thought oh I 'll boil them up for dog |
| 14 | It was a place he rarely went , and now he had been twice in twenty-four hours ; last night with Benny , and tonight because he was so late and fussed getting back from his useless journey to Dublin . |
| 15 | While originally he had been fully in support of the Arusha Declaration and allied policies , later he began to attack the Government from London . |
| 16 | Yeah , well I 'd been out to the bin and er , he was just sort of erm by the ground by the bin bags the wood round the corner and er then he was sort of coming and he was like dying to come and have a stroke but |
| 17 | but you got to have been out of work six months , so I said well I 've been out of work six months , so she , I 've got that to do tomorrow , so I get up the firm this Spinny Hill , Northampton , that 's an adult education centre where you can go and learn the skills of your trade , but she said that might not start until September |
| 18 | No , I mean , last time I went out would be erm well I 've been out in the afternoon a few times , with my boyfriend , but , the last time I went out in the evening |
| 19 | Well we 've been on to and they do n't seem to do an awful lot . |
| 20 | Well it 's been there for the past two weeks but now he 's gone to l get a house . |
| 21 | And sad things like children falling into fires and because in the mud huts you have the fire in the centre of the hut and it 's quite easy for the children to fall in and there was one little boy there who had been there for over a year and they kept trying to erm heal up all his skin wounds . |
| 22 | These boys were undertrial prisoners ; many had been there for eight months and at least one had been there for two years . |
| 23 | but erm yes the garden 's alright but then they 've been there in the garden all the winter as well |
| 24 | and er if Paul has had a phone call from one of these woman then he 's been off like a shot ! |
| 25 | Ever since then he has been solidly in the ranks of the anti-Establishment , commenting in his work on the political evils of the day particularly the arms buildup of recent years . |
| 26 | With any luck my father would n't call me for the milking too early ; he generally does n't when I 've been out on patrol the night before . |
| 27 | It must be twisted or summat cos it 's never done it before when I 've been in with the you know , to go bingo . |
| 28 | which is when you 've been there for a for genuinely over an hour and a half . |
| 29 | be prepared with positive and well-reasoned responses for negative questions about your age , why you were made redundant , why you have been out of work so long , whether you have lost skills through lack of use , whether you have failed to keep in touch with your original skills |
| 30 | Wait until he knows what else you 've been up to ! ’ |