Example sentences of "[pron] been [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another story — the charming Silford Hall tells of a happy visit which a little boy once paid to a country mansion , and how the kind housekeeper showed him round the picture gallery , and gave him a lovely dinner in the servants ' hall ; Crabbe had himself been that humble little boy . |
| 2 | Its been another less than startling year for London-based cables and construction group BICC Plc with pre-tax profits down 4.9% at £77m on turnover that fell 3.8% to £3,647m . |
| 3 | has she been any better this woman cos she was always on about her , and she said no , she said I went to higher authorities about it , is that it ? |
| 4 | And since when have you been such an excellent student of human nature ? |
| 5 | ‘ We know that , stupid , but where have you been all night ? ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Where 've you been all my life , madam ? ’ |
| 7 | Red , where you been all these weeks ? ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Where have you been all this time ? |
| 9 | ‘ Where have you been all afternoon then ? ’ |
| 10 | ‘ Where the hell have you been all this time ? ’ |
| 11 | He was saying , would you believe , ‘ And where have you been all my life ? ’ |
| 12 | ‘ Where have you been all day ? ’ |
| 13 | ‘ Where the bloody hell have you been all this time ? ’ she cried , throwing herself into his arms . |
| 14 | ‘ Where 've you been all this time ? ’ |
| 15 | Well , where have you been that 's made you so late ? |
| 16 | Have you been that part there ? |
| 17 | Where 've you been this morning ? |
| 18 | Where you been this morning then ? |
| 19 | Dierdriu said gently , ‘ Had you been half siblings , something might have been permitted . |
| 20 | Nor has there been much change in the pattern of support from the family . |
| 21 | Why has there been much unemployment in Glasgow and Clydeside during the last 50 years ? |
| 22 | The cyclotron was a research facility through into the 1980s , but was an expensive and remarkable piece of equipment to have appeared in the 1950s in a country where , neither before nor since , has there been much cash for anything scientific . |
| 23 | Nor have there been many recent sample-survey investigations of the relationship between social class and educational attainment . |
| 24 | ‘ Have there been many women , Leo ? ’ |
| 25 | Not only have there been many important exhibitions held on these issues but many women artists have developed brave and challenging work . |
| 26 | Has there been such a restoration , since 1920 ? |
| 27 | Never before has there been such open abuse of power by those who are supposed to set standards for the people . |
| 28 | Never before had there been such a team put out by any club . ’ |
| 29 | Never before has there been such a catalogue of successive shocks and scandals in the Royal Family , culminating now in the separation of Charles and Diana . |
| 30 | Not since the fire at Alexandria had there been such a concentration of the world 's True Knowledge in one building . |