Example sentences of "[subord] [pers pn] have be [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.

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31 Well if it 's frozen there 's no way so er I rang up Mobil you see in and the fellow said oh if it 's been on for s you know few years he said , take your calliper off , put it in the vice and just lever it back that 's what we do
32 But , like if it 's been out on the deck , the only things off the deck that they can save , is like Ratatouille , they save that , erm , and like but it 's unused
33 I found it hard to believe that , even if he had been out of the country , his family could have moved away without his knowing .
34 He was fully dressed as if he had been out of the chateau . ’
35 Well the , the er the Guilds I can speak now because I 've been up to a higher level , I 've been on the section and Birmingham is a very big area .
36 Yes er what what er the pitch I think in fact I 've heard them say this er because I 've been out with two of the top fliers up here
37 ‘ I 'm very disappointed because I 've been out of work since returning from the tour last summer and this contract meant security for my family . ’
38 But it wo n't be that much because I 've been out of things for the last year and before that I had shut my eyes anyway .
39 Your not waiting till you 've been up to London .
40 Also Keith thought he could n't have any children because he 'd been out with a girl for a year before I started going out with him and they did n't take any precautions and she never got pregnant .
41 I know that Bob and Glynis will be delighted to have some because he 's been out of work .
42 Well I think it 's been open to any higher education institution to grab this idea because it 's been around for a long time , the great beauty of Napier is to some degree it 's a centre of excellence it 's got its B A course so has Queen Margaret but at the bottom end but why should I say the bottom end at the bottom end it 's got the B A communications course at the top end it 's got apprentice training for printers .
43 While I 've been out in the fresh air enjoying myself she 's been stuck in this featureless boarding house , wondering if I 'll ever come back .
44 Since I 've been over in England I 've bought a lot of clothes that I 'd probably never even consider wearing in Australia .
45 Since I 've been back at work , life has been just great .
46 Er the thing is that the people in the northeast yes er there is a lot more work done up there by the Society but you know since I 've been down in Horsham I have found that the northeast is not alone .
47 It seemed a long time since she had been out of her apartment , longer still since she had taken a walk .
48 Because the memories plaguing her were sending her quietly crazy , and it had only been a week since she had been out of his company .
49 It 's ages since we 've been out for a drink together , ’ Laura enthused .
50 Since we had been back in Reine , Jean-Claude had stopped speaking of Montaine 's death as if it haunted him unduly .
51 So erm yes I think everybody 's very very disappointed as I think we probably heard with Paul Simpson because United certainly in my books , played some of the best football I 've seen them play since they 've been back in the second division in the erm first half , but really did let things slip away a little bit in the second .
52 Yeah cos if it was as bad as he said it was , I mean he would only stand up for one or two hours at a time , whereas he 'd been up since nine , he was still sitting up at one o'clock when I arrived there
53 He added that it had been some years since he had been back in England .
54 Not since he 's been back for a week .
55 I mean I , I , I do n't drink a lot , I mean maybe after I 've been out in the hills you have got to drink something to replace the sweat , but I 'm not a great drinker and I do n't , I do n't smoke and I , I do n't like discos or anything like that
56 Ignore how you feel when you first wake and take note instead of how you feel after you have been up for about ten minutes — many people find those first waking moments difficult to cope with .
57 After he had been out of work for months his telephone rang and a manager asked to see him .
58 I 've gone down hill since then , but she said you know these folks are hard when you 've been out of work for a long while , you 've got ta just get back up and fight again , I said , she said and I know how hard that is , but she said you know , if you can get it going and fit and get in , so
59 Well fancy being a like that all that time it 's bad enough when you 've been out on a binge and you get that headache then .
60 Eve , but listen , when you 've been out with me on a Monday I 've said to you you 've only had a cauliflower
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