Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] [pers pn] have been " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I wish it had n't been tonight , for tonight we have been invited to Gemma 's house for supper . |
| 2 | In ecumenical circles of late we have been reminded that ‘ remembering ’ in the biblical context was far more than simply recalling to mind what God had done in the past . |
| 3 | He had been a soldier for almost all his life , but of late he had been a farmer in Normandy , drawn to the land of his enemies by a woman met by chance in the chaos of peace . |
| 4 | I 've managed to subject the boots to most conditions except a thorough soaking over several days — for once we 've been basking in sunshine for weeks in Scotland , along with the sun-drenched south east ! |
| 5 | That , in itself , was not unusual ; but for once he had been told nothing of the reason for the meeting . |
| 6 | For once he has been left behind for a singularly devastating moment of pleasure . |
| 7 | Dearest , for once you 've been misinformed . |
| 8 | Marx 's works had already begun to penetrate Russia earlier , but until now they had been used to buttress populist attacks on capitalism , rather than to develop a Marxist approach to revolution in Russia . |
| 9 | Their mothers and sisters looked upon them in a new way , because until now they had been sons and brothers , but were from that day to be turned into men by the strictest mistress of all . |
| 10 | Despite being so ubiquitous , until now they 've been solely a male preserve . |
| 11 | Until now they have been spared the encounter with large ‘ megastores ’ , fast becoming commonplace in every major city . |
| 12 | ‘ Until now we have been unsuccessfully trying to break into the lower end of the market ’ says Len Saunders , managing director of the eponymous Emsworth , Sussex-based company . |
| 13 | Whereas until now we have been considering changes that are forming an underclass , we now turn to examine a reform already enacted that will ensure that the underclass , and other vulnerable groups , continue to be the least privileged in old age . |
| 14 | Until now we have been concerned with how water gets into and is distributed around the house , sometimes being heated on the way . |
| 15 | Until now we have been reconstructing the system … |
| 16 | So th the case you 're putting that the that the pensioner trustee er ship is more powerful than you originally put cos until now you 've been put it in grounds of i the trust should be repre representative of it |
| 17 | This poverty was all the worse for the general affluence around it , and until now it had been little noticed by the majority . |
| 18 | Until now it had been enough to produce smocks , nightdresses and long dresses in cotton for stores which would carry supplementary ranges by other manufacturers in different departments . |
| 19 | Until now it had been outside her experience … |
| 20 | Until now it had been thought that the problem was largely confined to Devon and Cornwall . |
| 21 | But until now it 's been ignored . |
| 22 | Until now it has been thought that interferon can do little to prevent the initial entry of viruses into a cell . |
| 23 | Until now it has been assumed that social changes are determined by events which have the same status in the sense that they may all be conditions and consequences of each other . |
| 24 | The new process could make carpet recycling possible on a major scale ; until now it has been laborious and expensive to separate out the component materials , which often include wool , nylon as well as latex . |
| 25 | Until now he had been using one loaned to him by Christian . |
| 26 | And until now she 'd been naïvely pleased with the result . |
| 27 | Until today it had been thought that some staff would stay on to keep the base on standby . |
| 28 | From there it had been only a matter of time until he was given his own prison . |
| 29 | From there it has been downhill all the way . |
| 30 | From there he 'd been taken in a police van to Whitely by two police officers . |