Example sentences of "[pron] [vb base] been here [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've been here for some time . |
| 2 | I 've been here for about a week now . ’ |
| 3 | I 've been here for years and this is the first conversation I 've had with a human for simply ages . |
| 4 | God Almighty , Nan , I 've been here for the past two hours without knowing hair nor hide of you . ’ |
| 5 | She said , ‘ I 've been here for three weeks , I have n't seen one movie star until now , ’ and she came over and got my autograph . |
| 6 | Well , Jim , I 've been here for three years , and no real food from that day to this . |
| 7 | Although I 've been here for a long time , I 've got my house , got my family here , I 've got comfortable living , although not er luxurious but er normal standard , better standard than I could have in India . |
| 8 | I 've been here for nearly a year now . ’ |
| 9 | Now please tell me if I 'm keeping you , I know I 've been here for a very long time |
| 10 | ‘ I 've been here for six months . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ I 've been here since 8am , and nothing . |
| 12 | I 'm , I 'm asking , I 've been here since Saturday |
| 13 | ‘ I 've been here since the end of April , ’ Lynnette replied . |
| 14 | Even the validity of many of the ‘ I 've been here before ’ experiences is rather doubtful as , with the growth of television and cinema , we have all seen so many places which we may later come to visit . |
| 15 | Yeah well it 's rare for me to come to the doctor 's but last three week I 've been here like every week , kind of thing . |
| 16 | ‘ I 've been here in Ralarth a fair while now , ’ he began , and the others stared at him . |
| 17 | I have been here for decades untold in this court , never leaving it except in my mind , ranging to far stars yet never truly experiencing those elsewheres . |
| 18 | I have been here for more than two years I have lectured them . |
| 19 | Yes I have been here until 1.00 a.m. or 2.00 a.m. in the morning when they have the gigs . |
| 20 | After all you 've been here over a fortnight . |
| 21 | How has it been for yourself , obviously you 've been here with your children , your husband 's been away for more than a month , in Iraq , there must have been er terrible thoughts going through you mind at certain times ? |
| 22 | but it cuts across , no there there comes a point where the of this world say oh am I allowed to do this , am I allowed to do that if you 've been here for more than three years right and it 's particularly prevalent in Scotland , oh are we allowed to do that , oh I did n't know and that 's old that is. old to a certain extent you know , she 's been around longer than has and been around but influenced by who 's been around a long time you see that 's where we get it , you see we do n't get the initiative coming in that area we get we get the oh Christ , bloody hell let's shove that one out the way that 's a national account . |
| 23 | ‘ So you 've been here for two years , ’ teased Tony as she looked for her key and opened the door , ‘ and still no boyfriend ? ’ |
| 24 | and they were such a load of dicks when we first met , you know , and they 're just like trying to impress all the time and now I mean you 've been here for , what , a year and , year and a bit and |
| 25 | Mr Chatfield , you 've been here for , well , as you say , thirty five years — what was it like in the old days before the university was put here ? |
| 26 | You 've been here before me , have n't you ? |
| 27 | The hon. Gentleman must forgive me : I want to be fair to other hon. Members who have been here for a long time . |
| 28 | Those of us who have been here since 1987 have a sense of fortune in being involved in the tremendous and dramatic changes in the world scene , which are reflected in the Gracious Speech . |
| 29 | ‘ I say to people to come and see Ireland for themselves because if they come they 'll never want to leave — like others who have been here from the North-East of England . |
| 30 | ‘ But we 've been here for thousands of years ! |