Example sentences of "and [pers pn] [verb] be [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 | no , I forgot well see I forgotten and I 'd been down to Boots an all I , aunty Mary had them once , one time and said |
| 4 | And I 've been up till , I 've been paining me all night Doctor , |
| 5 | And I 've been all round the place . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | And I 've been there since Alpha and I every year I 've looked out and watched the form twos . |
| 9 | and I 've been out of there for three hours and loved every minute of it . |
| 10 | It had blown a gale in the early hours and I had been up with my torch at three o'clock to attend to the guy-ropes and check that the washing was still on the line : it was , but it had become red with dust . |
| 11 | Dermot and I had been together at Eton but then Dermot was one of the Lower boys who came when I shouted " Boy " . |
| 12 | And I had been once in a , a cruise liner to the Canary Islands and Madeira in nineteen thirty five . |
| 13 | Erm on the audit side both Karen and I have been round to all the branches in order to deal with our old equipment . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | And she 'd been right about the red roses . |
| 16 | Myra Hindley has been in prison for my whole life : I 'm twenty-two now and she 's been in for twenty-two years . |
| 17 | I mean it 's the last fortnight she 's meant to be studying and she 's been out with her boyfriends and |
| 18 | And it comes to the first of August , and Graham gets his car , his new X J S , and I get my new Lada , and we 've been out at midnight doing all this , but we come to the branch in the morning , and he parks his X J S there , and I park my Lada next to it . |
| 19 | And we 've been all over the place have n't we Arthur . |
| 20 | But what I really liked was his face and we have been together for around five years . |
| 21 | No this is , cos Marion and Matthew they like Indians and they go both me ma , start again , they like Indian meals and they 've been round to quite a few and they said this is the best one they 've been to . |
| 22 | When , when they 've been down , and they 've been back to school , they 've sent me a collections of drawings and nice little notes about it , and we 've come firm friends because first they look at me , on me as the pond woman , oh , they saw me on television getting my award , and erm they thought that was rather wonderful , and so we , we , we talk and now the , the first ones have quite grown up . |
| 23 | Jack says practically that there is n't a beast because they 've not seen it and they 've been everywhere on the island . |
| 24 | In terms of erm , return to work , er , we also er have been very good , I think , in the sense that we now offer the twenty-five per cent bonus er , after pregnancy , do n't get me wrong on that , er , what happens is , people are actually recompensed , given back the money which they 've sacrificed because they 've been away from work for six months , and they get is back over the next two years . |
| 25 | and he 'd been away for three months so that you know I mean |
| 26 | William always went that step further into life 's nightmares , and he 'd been closer to it , to start with . |
| 27 | He 'd had himself painted and sculptured again and again , and he 'd been there for all the world to see . |
| 28 | He was from and he 'd been out of work a long time . |
| 29 | Schofield 's Europe , that 's his second tour , and he 's been all round the blinking Europe |
| 30 | Brian Ashmore says he suffered his first heart attack thirteen years ago and he 's been back into the Princess Margaret Hospital in Swindon five times since with related problems . |