Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] [verb] be [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By which time the tenants have come home from work or they 've been out for a few hours , say they 've been out from twelve till six . |
| 2 | I said three flights that I 've been on in the last fortnight . |
| 3 | ‘ In view of your opinion of me , it wo n't surprise you to know that I 've been out with a couple of the other men from the station over the past week , ’ Maria volunteered stormily , halting and then swinging round to face him again . |
| 4 | And they had the , the erm they had sort of five out of the five or six horses that I thought were in with a good chance at eight to one . |
| 5 | I regret that I had been out of the office on the 15 July and did not receive your FAX until first thing on the 16 July . |
| 6 | We got a cold gust of er icy winds when that I think was out in blossom then there would n't be many conkers . |
| 7 | Worried that leaving it in the basket might suggest that she had been up to no good , the girl ran downstairs starkers with her boyfriend in hot pursuit , playfully offering to help . |
| 8 | When he went round the corner to her room and knocked , she would have to pretend that she had been down to the kitchens . |
| 9 | However , there were people there who were ‘ greatly desiring that she had been out of that country ’ , and she bustled off to York , where the Archbishop paid a man five shillings to lead her out of the town . |
| 10 | She says she wept nonstop for an hour during which she gradually began to realize that she had been out of her mind for the last six weeks . |
| 11 | Jodie Cooper from Australia told me that she had been out at Haleiwa when Johnny Boy got it into his head that she had robbed him of his wave . |
| 12 | Her last thought before she fell asleep was the reaction she would get if they knew that she had been out with a policeman . |
| 13 | She had to decide before she saw her parents again if she should confess all that she 'd been up to . |
| 14 | Jeanie moaning , Lily weeing , she 's got a water infection so she 's been about to the loo about five thousand times |
| 15 | The British emerged from their wars against Louis XIV in a calmer flame of mind than they had been in during the disturbed and excited seventeenth century . |
| 16 | Kahane gave him the one for the previous month , explaining that they had been out in the desert for six weeks . |
| 17 | Comet is written in Basic , and although it has been around for about 20 years , is still widely used . |
| 18 | Comet is written in Basic , and although it has been around for about 20 years , is still widely used . |
| 19 | Just such a product has been introduced into the UK , although it has been around for a while in the US , under the generic name InteSoft . |
| 20 | Although it 's been around since 1985 you could hardly describe it as one of the top-selling DOS word processors . |
| 21 | North Korea would probably still have to admit , as Iraq has done under UN sanctions and as South Africa did voluntarily , that it had been up to no good . |
| 22 | How this name originated I have no idea , but I do know that it has been around for many generations for a jingle about this name has come down from the 19th century and it went : " Old Cribb , Young Cribb and Young Cribbs Son , if it had n't a been for Old Cribb there would n't have been none " . |
| 23 | Bill Wood of Durham called about it , desisted from hurling it in this direction and merely gave the fascinating information that it has been about for 1,500 years and started off in Anglo Saxon as sacleas , meaning ‘ without strife ’ . |
| 24 | Hongkong Bank is inheriting a bank in better shape than it has been in for more than a decade . |
| 25 | I gathered that he 'd been around in some pretty exciting — oh , do you mean he might have made that up , too ? |
| 26 | When Conchis had said that he 'd been down on Moutsa the week before , it had been this one fact , the sweet womanish perfume , that had puzzled me . |
| 27 | Checking his watch , he found that he 'd been out of the cabin for a little over three hours . |
| 28 | Jarvis Stringer 's grandparents ' qualifications for keeping a school were that he had been up at Oxford where he had read Greats and she had left Goldsmith 's College halfway through her teacher training . |
| 29 | Only that he had been up at San Carlos about two years and had a wife that was supposed to be very pretty and about fifteen years younger than he was . |
| 30 | Sir Richard , in hose and open cambric shirt , wiped dust from his hands , apologising that he had been out with the craftsmen who were putting the finishing touches to their pageant for the young king 's coronation . |