Example sentences of "[adv] [pers pn] have been [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | In terms of actual support , I think for me personally it 's been within a gay men 's group . |
| 32 | So he 'd been to the doctors about few weeks ago and he 'd been repairing his shed , said there was water coming in and he went to he said oh you 've pulled a ligament or something he said , it 'll take weeks for it to clear up but anyhow he went back again about a fortnight ago . |
| 33 | So he 's been for two years . |
| 34 | So he 's been in that 's just about a year and a half now . |
| 35 | So it has been with other countries of immigration — the immigrants embraced a new nationality with , if the nationalist fictions are to be believed , unseemly eagerness . |
| 36 | So it has been for centuries , yet the multi-petalled bloom of modern times , epitomized by the modern Hybrid Tea rose ( or , as it is abbreviated , H.T. ) and probably most people 's mental image of all that a rose is and should be , is a product of modern hybridizing and cross-breeding that did not exist even as recently as medieval times . |
| 37 | Erm this has been to Great Parndon Committee so it 's been through the neighbourhoods er , community cycle and there has been an exhibition following that committee on Three Hills , which was very well attended by by tenants and residents and main feelings coming out of that was that erm the residents were keen for this to happen , certainly wanted something to happen erm er , on the estate particularly demolition of the four empty blocks . |
| 38 | So it 's been in the garage for years ? |
| 39 | And all the time Nisodemus was reminding people how much better it had been in the Store . |
| 40 | She mentioned tonight she 's been at work every day mind you . |
| 41 | But already she had been to the zoo with him and accepted an invitation for future visits . |
| 42 | Said manager John Bell : ‘ The Canadians are building a huge power plant in Ontario and already they have been in touch for guidance on how we operate our laundry system . ’ |
| 43 | Nevertheless it had been at Bray 's Buildings , stench or no stench , squeals of slaughtered beasts or no squeals , that one of the most fascinating of Benjamin 's children had entered the world . |
| 44 | ‘ Pion is only fourteen months old and already he has been to Alaska . ’ |
| 45 | She realised how close she had been to the edge when the Yggdrasil bit came for her . |
| 46 | She stopped , embarrassed suddenly , looked down , realised with a start just how close she had been to revealing some parts of her life , her thoughts … |
| 47 | She closed her book ; her papa had given it to her before she left for England and she blushed a little on remembering how short she had been with him when he had handed it over to her . |
| 48 | But he has got the sort of acidy sort of alcohol smell on his breath just like you 'd been on spirits all night or whatever , any sort of you know , wine and it 's not a beer sort of smell . |
| 49 | Now of course it would depend very much on and whether you were in a drought situation as we were until last year or whether it 's like we 've been over this last summer and early winter which is that virtually not a day has passed without we 've had some rain , in which case obviously the roof is going to get cleaned up very much quicker but I have to say that although I 've always been under the impression that it 's not a good idea to save water off a new felt roof er because of deposits that come off the mineral felt . |
| 50 | I do n't think the theatre 's ever been endowed with a great deal of fundings but one or two companies in the town that have been prepared to fund obviously the one that strikes me is Gilbey 's cos the Gilbey bar I mean that was funded and like they 've been over the years they have given money even fact as a sad note cos Gilbey 's have actually demised now erm General Portfolio have actually taken on the role in Harlow of funding many things if you actually look all most things that have sponsored until recently have been sponsored by General Portfolio so they 've been to the fore in er fundering funding . |
| 51 | Her husband , Stuart , 52 , said yesterday he had been in daily contact with her since she flew to Canada last month on the second pilgrimage to find her son . |
| 52 | THE polar explorer Sir Ranulph Fiennes said yesterday he had been within a week of death when he finally agreed to ‘ be sensible ’ and abandon his Antarctic expedition . |
| 53 | He had waited for her in the forests that fringed Tara , his mind filled with light and hope , his body more fiercely aware than ever it had been in his entire life . |
| 54 | And once he had been at Oxford , she said . |
| 55 | Wheat and barley he knew , and once he had been in a field of turnips . |
| 56 | I think , I think you 'll get the bright times wo n't you , like he 's been in hospital |
| 57 | Only two weeks later she 'd been on her way to Little Kirkton . |
| 58 | A long time ago , she 'd learned just how dear she 'd been to Ewan Famber : an experiment . |
| 59 | How wrong she had been about not needing it . |
| 60 | She had been right in her suspicion that David 's return had been something to do with a woman , but how wrong she had been over the reason . |