Example sentences of "and [pron] have [adv] been [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | And I 'd no been to bloody . |
2 | ‘ But I do n't go abroad on holiday — and I 've never been to the Caribbean , ’ she wailed helplessly as he added yet another gorgeous outfit to the huge pile he 'd already chosen . |
3 | It 's pretty boring here and I 've only been at Auntie Jane 's just over a day . |
4 | ‘ My parents and I had n't been on good terms for some time . |
5 | ( Oh , yes , Benjamin and I had also been to university but , due to minor misunderstandings , had both been asked to leave before we received our degrees . |
6 | when I was sixteen because it 's then I started to get these free passes and I had a sister then who lived at Rye and I had never been across London so the next door neighbour came with me to see me across London er because I was so young you see and I said right as long as you show me across London I can come back alone , you see , and so I came back alone and I , that 's when I started , so from sixteen and er and as I say I went to Cambridge in the nineteen thirty one , it was the last day of well say nineteen thirty two , you see , and , and also in the twenties I was going on holiday alone and I went to once er to the Isle of Man and when I was er I , I sat next , well being by myself , you see , they put me in , to a little table near the wall . |
7 | Mark and I have just been for a walk beyond Dalseattie , which was nice until the mist came down and began to make us rather damp . |
8 | And I have never been to Ireland . |
9 | I 've probably been out playing and you 've probably been at the shops . |
10 | Kathy made two cups of tea and said firmly , ‘ You are n't yourself , Clare , and you have n't been for months . ’ |
11 | ‘ I have some shopping to do and you have not been to the town at all . |
12 | It was spotted by William Robertson , then aged 20 , a deaf man who had been educated at the Aberdeen School for the Deaf , and who had only been at sea for one year . |
13 | And she 'd already been with me for several years before we met , so you felt that perhaps she knew me better than you did , and you hated that . ’ |
14 | Still , it sounded like a fascinating challenge , and she 'd never been to Sheffield before , so it would give her an opportunity to see another little bit of the world . |
15 | But she brought them because it salved her conscience to bring something , and she had not been for two weeks now . |
16 | ‘ When ? ’ she questioned , feeling her palms already starting to itch — and she had n't been in his company five minutes yet ! |
17 | In fact , they had already become good friends when she had played Mrs Murray in Eh ? with him at Circle-In-The-Square , and she had also been in The Tiger Makes Out . |
18 | She was twenty-five and she had never been in the tube . |
19 | And she had never been in the London Underground . |
20 | Finding a lone man amid open ocean is doubtful at the best of times , and we had just been through the densest fog bank either one of us had ever experienced . |
21 | We 've been to Lords and we 've also been to Wembley , we 've been to Twickenham and we 've also been to Wimbledon . |
22 | We 've been to Lords and we 've also been to Wembley , we 've been to Twickenham and we 've also been to Wimbledon . |
23 | ‘ And we 've also been over the fact that I ca n't accept conditions . |
24 | I 'm sorry but I just ca n't support this view , what about pride , team confidence ( just imagine what this victory would do to that — considering , correct me if I 'm wrong , but the 3 sides we have beaten away from home are shit , and we have also been on a crap run recently ) , and not to mention a place in Europe — this is a 2nd place 6 pointer . |
25 | And there had also been for many years the musical evenings at your parents ' home . |
26 | Only by now there were n't any more southbound stages and there had n't been for over a week . |
27 | " No , and there have n't been for some time . " |
28 | Letting go is part of everyone 's life and there have certainly been times when I have let go . |
29 | ’ Letting go is part of everyone 's life and there have certainly been times when I have let go ’ … ’ |
30 | er and that agreement is to look after the spouse , there is never and there has never been in our law , and there is n't now , a clean break as far as children are concerned . |