Example sentences of "[vb base] been [conj] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You do n't know where they 've been before they came into your kitchen . |
| 2 | The thing is , it 's been so long since I 've been that I have n't got a clue how much tickets are likely to be . |
| 3 | like it , now but it 's alright where you 've been but it belongs to someone else does n't it ? |
| 4 | I 've been after it for years . ’ |
| 5 | Yeah , and I do n't now but i I mean I 'm certainly in two I 've been since there 's people who 've referred to the fact that they do n't have those members of staff working for them at the optimum days , |
| 6 | We 'll go back to all the places you 've been since you nicked my bag and we 'll look in every single rubbish bin till we find them . ’ |
| 7 | about people to think to them after they 've been because it 's so stressful . |
| 8 | Well there 's that I mean there 's all , there 's a whole range of things , there 's ghoulish voyeurism right , I mean that that 's important , there 's also the way the Royals have been peddled by the media over the decades and the fact that you know this has been how they 've been tendered this is what they actually are and that y you , you know what I 'm saying that erm or whatever it is between this is what they are , this is what we 've been and they do n't match , they really do n't match . |
| 9 | ‘ I do n't want to make a big thing about holing myself up in the middle of nowhere , but people are asking me where I 've been and I ca n't really say I 've been touring the Far East or helping Bob ( we think he means Dylan — Ed ) with his album . |
| 10 | Yeah , I 've been and there 's none there either . |
| 11 | You 've never asked me , not once , how anything has gone , or where I 've been or whom I 've seen . " |
| 12 | He likes to know where I 've been when he 's away . |
| 13 | I 've been cos I have n't been to the R A F club for ages there . |
| 14 | Not as high as they have been but they range from thirteen eighty five to fourteen forty . |
| 15 | I know I have been but I ca n't think of one at the moment |
| 16 | I have been but I always go home . |
| 17 | The strong points in their argument have been that they exhibit voluntaryism in its purest form , that they are free of any obligation to find a programme for the tutor-organiser to teach and that , in managing on voluntary effort alone , they are saving the District that portion of a full-time salary which would not be covered by government or local authority grant-aid . |
| 18 | The real objection to the use of the statement may in any event have been that it was self-serving rather than that it was protected by privilege , which could have been waived by the defendant . |
| 19 | ‘ Have been since I was a kid . ’ |
| 20 | Why I 'm very positive about this I am a rheumatoid arthritis person , have been since I oh I do n't know happen to be in my fifties I think . |
| 21 | Tony Adams , the Arsenal skipper , says : ‘ Niall and I are great friends and have been since he came over here 10 years ago . |
| 22 | She believes you are more pleasant now than you have been since your father died , in fact . ’ |
| 23 | Lesser rorqual , pilot whales , Risso 's dolphins , killer whales and porpoises are all likely to be met with in Shetland waters and most of my close encounters have been while I have been drifting with the motor stopped . |
| 24 | Without denigrating the work of the Coordinating Team , it is the evaluators ' belief that decisions will be made on better grounds than they have been if something like this proposal becomes a reality . |
| 25 | I think that old people , or people who are retired , rather than old people , have an enormous amount of wisdom about their community , they have certainly stories to tell , and traditionally I think often in older traditional communities , they , the retired people , the people who 've ceased work , have been if you like , the guardians of the wisdom and the guardians of the stories . |
| 26 | ‘ Who would Mr Marr 's superior have been when he was in the overseas ministry ? ’ |
| 27 | Lord , you understand why I have been as I have . |
| 28 | But there is also envy and fear of where you have been and what you have done . ’ |
| 29 | And that 's why I think erm the West is making an enormous mistake in thinking that eastern European countries can suddenly become cos they never have been and I ca n't see any democratic now . |
| 30 | Government and hospitals are not opting out of the N H S at all , they are every much of it a as part of the Health Service as they every have been and you all know that and it 's about time you stopped saying it . |