Example sentences of "[subord] [pers pn] have be [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jeanie moaning , Lily weeing , she 's got a water infection so she 's been about to the loo about five thousand times |
| 2 | The British emerged from their wars against Louis XIV in a calmer flame of mind than they had been in during the disturbed and excited seventeenth century . |
| 3 | Comet is written in Basic , and although it has been around for about 20 years , is still widely used . |
| 4 | Comet is written in Basic , and although it has been around for about 20 years , is still widely used . |
| 5 | Just such a product has been introduced into the UK , although it has been around for a while in the US , under the generic name InteSoft . |
| 6 | Although it 's been around since 1985 you could hardly describe it as one of the top-selling DOS word processors . |
| 7 | Hongkong Bank is inheriting a bank in better shape than it has been in for more than a decade . |
| 8 | The current version is 9.0 version 99 , so it 's been around for a while ! |
| 9 | Alright , so it 's been around since the year dot . |
| 10 | Cos she 's been out in town all morning . |
| 11 | I found her bustling about with a feather duster looking as if she 'd been up for hours . |
| 12 | It looked as if she 'd been up in the loft for something , which I suppose was rather rash in her state of health . |
| 13 | And what 's more , if she 'd been about in your time , instead of that man , nice little Neville Chamberlain , she 'd have given your old Hitler a few right-handers below the belt ; and seen to it that Britain was armed to the teeth , with an airforce twice the size of the Luftwaffe instead of a few old men with pitch forks and a handful of plucky chaps like yourself to keep the Nazis out . |
| 14 | Just a , I find that she almost looks as if she 's been out in the sun and that it sort of looks like very strong sunlight on her face which is a shame really . |
| 15 | If you had been out in the middle of space , far from anything else , they would have stayed put . |
| 16 | ( Lazing 's highly recommended if you 've been up for the 8.30am aerobics . |
| 17 | ‘ If you 'd been out on the street — ’ Georgiades looked at Nikos — ‘ instead of sitting on your ass in a cool office — ’ |
| 18 | If you have been out of nursing or health visiting for six months or less you may feel that completing a formal course is a waste of valuable time which might be more profitably spent in reorientation to your new job . |
| 19 | But it is hard to persuade voters that you have managerial skills if you have been out of office for 11 years . |
| 20 | It was great and probably would have been with the exception of the video going to number one , it probably would be the highlight of our career cos we 'd been out of had n't been working in Ireland for six years and we were back in and did a sell out concert tour and I think that was really good . |
| 21 | If we 'd been up on Water Gypsy 's superstructure you 'd have been in the canal by now . ’ |
| 22 | If we 'd been around in Nelson 's day he 'd have given his right arm for a copy . |
| 23 | ‘ Women lose confidence being out of the labour market , men tend to lose confidence if they 've been out of work ’ , says Michaels . |
| 24 | If you ask medical staff how often they have seen someone die , rather than if they have been around at the time , surprisingly few will say they witnessed the actual event . |
| 25 | Long-term unemployed have to attend Restart interviews if they have been out of work for six months . |
| 26 | Cos they 've been on about people |
| 27 | If it 'd been down to me , this park would never 've been sited here . |
| 28 | If it had been up to me , you 'd have one police communication room , not two , because I 've worked in operations control , and you want to have a single control room for your authority , if any other system is less efficient than that . |
| 29 | If it had been down to that one offence , Daine would be in court for ever , kept on life support until the end of the trial , or until the judge ruled that enough medical alterations had been made to render the accused legally another entity entirely . |
| 30 | If it had been out for a walk or you know ? |