Example sentences of "[num] [noun] [pers pn] [vb base] been [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | He commented : ‘ In the 30 years I have been with Unilever these are the first redundancies . |
2 | He commented : ‘ In the 30 years I have been with Unilever these are the first redundancies . |
3 | Five six minutes you 've been in there . |
4 | My final comment is that loadings on the Central Wales line seem fairly light at present , judging by the two or three times I have been on it lately . |
5 | ‘ In the 55 years I 've been at Paramount we 've lost a lot of giants , none more so than Hal Roach , ’ AC Lyles said in a tribute to his old friend . |
6 | and twice in the last nine months I 've been in the United States and I was amazed at the number of very large women |
7 | But we 've been honest with our people , we have not paid anyone off , in the fifteen years I 've been at , that did n't want to go . |
8 | Five years you 've been at it now ; you should be a concert pianist , and you would be if you had practised . ’ |
9 | time and time again they sit on the sidelines saying this is what we think do n't talk to us about it do n't debate it , do n't ask us to think about it , take it or leave it , if you do n't give us what we want we 'll sit back and moan and sulk and they 've played , I think that 's a very irresponsible line they 've played in the five years I 've been on this council and I hope that er again the issue on the next item on the agenda represents a change of heart on their behalf . |
10 | Nine years and two months I 've been in love with Chris . ’ |
11 | ‘ For the past four weeks I 've been in the Middle East on business , and this place has been empty and locked up . ’ |
12 | That 's what this programme is about , and in that time I mean I think , I was thinking actually as Terry was speaking , erm you said that it was not clear that you can judge somebody on a hundred days , and I must say I agree with that , and I think at the moment in the last hundred days we 've been at war and it 's impossible to judge a new Prime Minister , who 's come into office in the right at the beginning of what potentially could have been a very nasty war . |