Example sentences of "have [been] [prep] [adj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And we went , because it , it 'd been at five o'clock you see , it 'd been up to the second , that was when it was up to the second step |
| 2 | I supposed I 'd been like that too , but I could n't remember . |
| 3 | He 'd been like that once , he 'd trusted and believed , and look what had happened to him . |
| 4 | Instead it 's A two which would have been at nine o'clock and |
| 5 | For a while , she thought she could have been at any moderately boring Christmas party . |
| 6 | Well , with the two lines going yeah would have been about right then but see , John I do n't suppose he realised Ann was gon na fetch all the people out of here there and everywhere and start that up . |
| 7 | The first sexual casual pick-up I had was also in South Wales ; this must have been about 1965–6 when I was nineteen or twenty . |
| 8 | But may have been through that earlier . |
| 9 | Do you imagine that we are the way we are about money because of mother or because we would have been like that anyway ? ’ |
| 10 | It ca n't have been like that really , though I believe records show that the summers in the late Twenties and early Thirties were warm and dry . |
| 11 | Even so , it is recorded that the President was considered to have been at best somewhat opportunistic in ‘ taking advantage of the favourable atmosphere ’ of the April 27th meeting ! |
| 12 | At first appraisal , Great Britain was , in 1914 , undisputed mistress of the seas , as she had been since 1805 when Admiral Lord Nelson destroyed the combined Franco-Spanish fleet at the Battle of Trafalgar . |
| 13 | His first feelings of love had been for that gloriously liberated and beautiful tomboy . |
| 14 | She had been at this long enough to know that , Caroline thought bitterly . |
| 15 | She carried their drinks into the living room and asked Ralph if he had managed to see his solicitor ; the appointment had been at 2 p.m . |
| 16 | She had been through enough already . |
| 17 | Besides , they had been through enough together for Colonel Windsor to know that Tubby was a man — or , at least , he had been . |
| 18 | And he was also sometimes a little overwhelming ( Uncle Dimitri had been like that too ) . |
| 19 | It had been like this ever since she and Adam had escaped from Other world ; she seemed to have no strength left to decide anything . |
| 20 | For some weeks now , Rusty had been in that peculiarly unreal state when words leap out from pages , voices or one 's own thoughts , and rudely rattle their bones about , or shove their meanings under one 's nose like exhibitionists until the meanings themselves vanish in a dance of death . |
| 21 | After the first thirty years of operation of the NHS , however , there had been disappointingly little change ; in 1976 , the Court Report noted that the variations in regional provision of service were still much the same as they had been in 1948 when the NHS began . |
| 22 | The results represented a success for the Moderates and for two parties who exceeded for the first time the statutory 4 per cent threshold for parliamentary representation — the Christian Democrats ( whose only previous representation had been in 1985-88 when one of the Centre party 's seats was allocated to Christian Democrat in an electoral pact ) , and the New Democracy Party . |
| 23 | Big , burly Ernest von Witzendorff sat at the foot of the conning-tower and laughed when he remembered how tough it had been in 1944 when Allied planes with radar covered the Atlantic . |
| 24 | ‘ We 've been through this already . |
| 25 | ‘ We 've been through this already . |
| 26 | We 've been through this once . |
| 27 | We 've been through this before , have n't we ? |
| 28 | I 've been through both already so I know what I 'm talking about . |
| 29 | ‘ We 've been over that already . |
| 30 | ‘ I 've been to two before , Daddy . |