Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [been] [adv] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Cos I 'd been there that morning |
| 2 | I 'd been out all day and was ravenous , but the strange woman made me nervous of settling down to eat . |
| 3 | I had been out all day with my gun , but without success . |
| 4 | I had been out all day and I had eaten nothing since breakfast . |
| 5 | But I 've been up all night . |
| 6 | I 've been up all night , thinking . |
| 7 | I 've been up all night working on these . ’ |
| 8 | Certainly when we get settled in after Christmas that should be and I 'll shall say about six rolls but I 'll shall say six rolls and just the every time I get one roll of wallpaper up and you you 'll think oh I 'll do the rest tomorrow just a bit more , then you get one more looks alright there , the other wall and er , I 'm sat , I 've been up all night doing this shall do one more then I 'll go a bed , I get from the wife bloody hell mother what time did you go to bed , about an hour ago , could n't leave it wallpaper . |
| 9 | I 've been up all night . |
| 10 | ‘ I 've been here all day — here in Oxford ! ’ |
| 11 | I 've been here all morning . |
| 12 | ‘ I 've been here some time now and it 's never happened before . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ It 's nigh on two year since I 've been out that house , ’ said Bella suddenly , ‘ since the Warden took me for that X-ray after I fell over and hurt me wrist . ’ |
| 14 | Well I 've been out all afternoon so I wondered if you 'd phoned in this afternoon . |
| 15 | I 've been out all day . |
| 16 | If I was on the streets of Ireland now , and I 've been there many occasions and someone said to me , look at that Welsh get there , I would just have to take it . |
| 17 | ‘ Yes , it 's a pot I 've been down many times — not the easiest ; apart from a fifty-foot pitch we 'll have to haul him up , there 's a long sump we 'll have to bring the injured man back through which could be tricky if he 's unconscious or uncooperative . |
| 18 | ‘ I know this because I have been here several times when I was younger . |
| 19 | But I have been up all night comma , too tired , but I was really homesick . |
| 20 | I have been there many times and had many unshakeable criticisms , which now have , of course , been shaken . ’ |
| 21 | I have been there many times , both for business and for pleasure . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ When I think back , knowing what I know now — and I have been so many places , and looked into the windows of other people 's lives , and I have seen so much — I still ca n't say for sure what Gittel really wanted . |
| 23 | But even this has not stopped my love for canoeing as I have been out many times since and this summer , when I was at camp , I was going down a weir , when I got caught in a stopper at the bottom and nearly drowned myself again . |
| 24 | She is older than the rocks among which she sits ; like the vampire , she has been dead many times , and learned the secrets of the grave ; and has been a diver in deep seas , and keeps their fallen day about her ; and trafficked for strange webs with Eastern merchants ; and , as Leda , was the mother of Helen of Troy , and , as Saint Anne , the mother of Mary ; and all this has been to her but as the sound of lyres and flutes , and lives only in the delicacy with which it has moulded the changing lineaments , and tinged the eyelids and the hands . |
| 25 | It is a memorable evocation , casting a spell over the reader : ‘ She is older than the rocks among which she sits ; like the vampire , she has been dead many times , and learned the secrets of the grave ; and has been a diver in deep seas , and keeps their fallen day about her … ’ |
| 26 | So she 'd been out all day to this cousin 's at Blakely She goes on a Monday now . |
| 27 | Shelley , you 've been here all day . |
| 28 | Now you 've been here several months , have your feelings about Chrysler changed ? |
| 29 | You 've been there all day and ca n't remember ! |
| 30 | She was cold , she had been dead some time . |