Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb -s] [be] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She may also use it as a greeting when she has been away from the kittens for a while . |
| 2 | She has been there for the past 10 years . |
| 3 | She has been there for two years . |
| 4 | She 's been away for the last week or so |
| 5 | Aye , cos about six month ago there was a job come up in our office for like a trainee assistant manager type , well an assistant to an assistant manager kind of thing so I applied for it and another woman in the office applied for it cos she 's been here for like sixteen years or whatever . |
| 6 | ‘ … she 's been here for the best part of a week and you 're no further forward . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Oh , she 's been here since the beginning of the year — she came over to start a new life after she 'd had problems back home . |
| 8 | Nobody 's gon na tell if she 's been here since five . |
| 9 | ‘ Ought n't you to be fetching Lisa — she 's been there since 3 and if they 're having a party tonight they 'd probably like to get her off their hands . ’ |
| 10 | She 's been there for months — it 's a long-term project … |
| 11 | She 's been there for — oh , it must be twenty years . |
| 12 | She 's been there for the last month . |
| 13 | The inclusion of the word " reasonably " gives the court a discretion which will be exercised in the tenant 's favour where for example he has made one or two late payments of rent , but not where he has been persistently in arrear throughout the term ( Bassett v Whiteley ( 1982 ) 54 P & CR 87 ) . |
| 14 | Since 1990 he has been either under house arrest or in jail . |
| 15 | If the adventurers ask about the Oracle himself , he will give only the barest of details ; that he is a seer into the future , a servant to his master ( Drachenfels ) , and he has been here for — he ca n't remember how long . |
| 16 | Ever since then he has been solidly in the ranks of the anti-Establishment , commenting in his work on the political evils of the day particularly the arms buildup of recent years . |
| 17 | To tell him that he has been always in my thoughts . |
| 18 | It was in the nature of a revelation but like all revelations , she thought , it has been just below the surface of my mind , lingering unrecognised , waiting , and now I see it and it is a familiar friend . |
| 19 | She added that the faun 's condition was good although ‘ it has been outside for 35 years and is a bit green . ’ |
| 20 | IT HAS been downhill for the past 13 months at Bond Corporation ever since the Lonrho chief , Tiny Rowland , unleashed his first poisoned arrow . |
| 21 | It has been so throughout India 's recorded history . |
| 22 | The sovereign power inherent in the British Crown , as exercised through Council and through Parliament , derives not from a treaty or document or compact , but from prescription , from the fact that it has been so from time immemorial — that it is immanent in the nation itself . |
| 23 | It has been more like carnival week in Rio than the death of an iron man . |
| 24 | It has been there for more than ten years . |
| 25 | ‘ People say the earth must be sour , but it has been there for eighteen years and still grows plants . |
| 26 | It has been there for two weeks and can not be released because the 3,500 troops promised by the United Nations to secure food convoys and get them moving have not arrived . |
| 27 | It has been there in one form or another since Anglo-Saxon times , probably the first building being of wood . |
| 28 | Peaceful , mellow and noble , in the shade of a great sycamore , it is the sort of house that feels as though it has been there from time immemorial . |
| 29 | It has been nigh on a full month since we first made a landfall on to the north shore : since we rode in the longboat on the crest of the shining surf and I set my foot withal on this fair land in the name of the King . |
| 30 | But the first thing that he says is really at the heart of his answer to the differing points of view about false ‘ gods ’ . |