Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] have been [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lindsey and Pete had started talking about having a baby when she was fourteen , and did so the following year : Pete and me had been together for eleven months and loved each other more than words could say . |
| 2 | And I 'd been there from six in the morning till quarter to nine . |
| 3 | And I 've been all round the place . |
| 4 | First of all I thought I 'd tell you who I was I 'm a G P in er in New Harlow , in Bush Fair , and I 've been there for nearly three years now . |
| 5 | Done quite a wee bit and I 've been there at a few of their , quite a few of their meetings and erm a good friend of quite a few of the councils . |
| 6 | And I 've been there since Alpha and I every year I 've looked out and watched the form twos . |
| 7 | Dermot and I had been together at Eton but then Dermot was one of the Lower boys who came when I shouted " Boy " . |
| 8 | And I had been once in a , a cruise liner to the Canary Islands and Madeira in nineteen thirty five . |
| 9 | You got half an hour plus ten minutes relief for your refreshments and that would happen at ten in the morning and you 'd been there since seven . |
| 10 | And she 'd been right about the red roses . |
| 11 | And we 've been all over the place have n't we Arthur . |
| 12 | But what I really liked was his face and we have been together for around five years . |
| 13 | Jack says practically that there is n't a beast because they 've not seen it and they 've been everywhere on the island . |
| 14 | and he 'd been away for three months so that you know I mean |
| 15 | William always went that step further into life 's nightmares , and he 'd been closer to it , to start with . |
| 16 | He 'd had himself painted and sculptured again and again , and he 'd been there for all the world to see . |
| 17 | Schofield 's Europe , that 's his second tour , and he 's been all round the blinking Europe |
| 18 | If the adventurers ask about the Oracle himself , he will give only the barest of details ; that he is a seer into the future , a servant to his master ( Drachenfels ) , and he has been here for — he ca n't remember how long . |
| 19 | It 's rather like er I had a plant the other day , a marigold , and it had been there for about two weeks and it was a lovely plant , and er I noticed it beginning to droop and I thought , oh well it 's finished now , it 's in a pot . |
| 20 | And it had been so since the day that she had turned to leave Sycorax at the hot springs . |
| 21 | ‘ All the power we could ever have wanted , and it 's been right under my nose for years . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ But I 'd been home for two hours when Silvia got back . |
| 23 | She had n't known Mark very well , but she had been there for Robyn when he had died , seen the agony that her friend had gone through . |
| 24 | ‘ But we 've been here for thousands of years ! |
| 25 | She had made a wrong choice a year ago , had put Steve and her career before the man she loved , but there had been more to it than that . |
| 26 | But they 've been there for twenty years on that spot . |
| 27 | He was tempted to go in and get it over , but he had been away from his temporary headquarters for a long time and he did not even know if the body had bean recovered successfully . |
| 28 | But he had been there at the right time , he had acted swiftly and effectively and she was alive . |
| 29 | But he had been there with Montaine and he could n't bear to see the place again — not then . |
| 30 | ‘ People say the earth must be sour , but it has been there for eighteen years and still grows plants . |