Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pers pn] [verb] be here " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean he 's , I think we 'll miss him , but I think he 's entitled to a move he 's been here for a little while |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | my mum he 's been here forty year and she 's never lost never lost her accent . |
| 4 | For nearly a year I have been here alone . |
| 5 | He has also made a record profit on the trams in the year he has been here ’ . |
| 6 | ‘ Yes , although this is n't the first time I 've been here . |
| 7 | ‘ It 's the first time I 've been here . |
| 8 | People who have been encouraged to visit something , or somewhere , or some place , when they 've done so say ‘ well , I 've lived here , you know , X number of years and this is the first time I 've been here ’ and they are so pleased . |
| 9 | The last time I won was here and I had that on my mind most of the week . |
| 10 | The last time she had been here had been to say good-bye to her great-aunt before she went off to America . |
| 11 | ‘ I just wanted to say that , we would of course be very sorry to lose you , you 've been a tremendous asset to the Department , even in the short time you 've been here . |
| 12 | ‘ I can vouch for it that nobody has moved from his or her desk all the time you 've been here , except for Nigel and he has not moved from his corner . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ How the hell , in the short time you 've been here , you 've earned the name Miss Frostbite beats me , ’ he deigned to answer one of her questions , albeit hostilely . |
| 14 | He 'd been full of hostility , she recalled , when he 'd said , ‘ How the hell , in the short time you 've been here , you 've earned the name Miss Frostbite beats me . ’ |
| 15 | I have not seen her alone face to face all the time we have been here and when I do see her in company she is wont to turn from me . |
| 16 | ‘ Mind you , it 's the first time they 've been here , and if I 'm any judge it 'll be the last . |
| 17 | Kerr said : ‘ We are so pleased with what has been achieved by John and Mick in the time they have been here . |
| 18 | He was unprepared for the pain the room gave him , the fierce memory of the last time he had been here , when only that impulse of chivalry , or folly , had prevented him from taking her , as he could have done , from making her his own instead of handing her over to whoever had got her now . |
| 19 | She wondered what ‘ period ’ he had been enraptured with at the time he 'd been here . |