Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb base] [be] [prep] [num] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 Erm I like doing water colour painting and I 've been on two holidays down in Cornwall and I 've done that and that 's very relaxing erm and it seems , you seem to forget about everything else , and that 's quite good fun er but erm obviously if it rains all your , all your colours get washed away , but that 's good fun .
2 I 've been to fifteen funerals of my friends this year .
3 I bet I 've been to more schools than Australia , I 've been to four schools in Australia
4 I 've been to eight countries in the last two weeks .
5 I 've been in two minds about whether to bother with the ABA this year , but the news that Baroness Thatcher and Margaret Atwood are to share a platform at a Book and Author Breakfast has made my mind up for me .
6 I mean I 've been in two shops now there 's fifty pound difference like , you know
7 You 're alright , you , you 've been for fifteen years
8 Furthermore , people vary in their tolerance from day to day , and it is not safe to assume that because you have been to 15,000 feet or so without oxygen before , you will be able to do it again .
9 We 've been through three names already .
10 Winter 's father said afterwards : ‘ We 've been through 20 months of sheer hell .
11 He and his wife , Nellie , live in a Home in an outer city suburb where they 've been for fifteen months .
12 " Scores of men are in a worse plight than they have been for thirty-seven years past " , admitted Harry Orbell , " The pawnshops are glutted .
13 Is the Prime Minister aware that building employers say that conditions are worse than they have been in 40 years , that car sales are down 20 per cent .
14 Here they have seen her because they have been within thirty feet of her .
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