Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] been [adv] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd been away after that before I came to the electricity works here . |
| 2 | Earlier in the month I had been strongly against any idea of coalition … |
| 3 | I had been out for many hours that day and had covered many miles of jungle with unflagging caution , but without one moment , s unease , and then , on cresting the ridge , and coming in sight of the rocks , I knew they held danger for me , and this knowledge was confirmed a few minutes later by the kakar 's warning call to the jungle folk , and by my finding the man-eater 's pug marks superimposed on my footprints . |
| 4 | To be able just to walk , or drive , wherever you want ; Christ , I 've been away from all this for less than a week and I feel like somebody coming out after thirty years . |
| 5 | I 've been up since half past seven . |
| 6 | I 've been here for some time . |
| 7 | I 've been on to this morning , asked me to and they have got thirty palettes there at the moment . |
| 8 | I 've been out , I 've been out since half seven this morning well |
| 9 | ‘ I have been most of all impressed by the contention that removal to such an area would be damaging to the morale of journalists . ’ |
| 10 | I have been around to all of them , most of the shops in the town and we will be patrolling all the time . |
| 11 | I have been around to all of them , most of the shops in the town and we will be patrolling all the time . |
| 12 | Erm on the audit side both Karen and I have been round to all the branches in order to deal with our old equipment . |
| 13 | I mean , you were n't even sure she 'd been there at all . ’ |
| 14 | You 've been round to all the branches ? |
| 15 | ‘ D' you mind tellin' me what you 've been up to all day ? ’ demanded Dolly . |
| 16 | Repeat name and date at every opportunity ; the sort of people who live in the East End like to know you 've been around for some time . |
| 17 | ‘ Back home in Australia , you can play for my university there , Queensland , for ever , so long as you 've been there at some time . |
| 18 | Ruth stared down at it and wondered why she had bought it and thought it was probably because it contrasted so sharply with what she had been through on this trip . |
| 19 | The girl had been missing for what — a week ? — and off-hand he agreed with the local man 's judgement that she had been here for most of it . |
| 20 | Cassie shivered as she contemplated the knowledge that she had been here in this kitchen once before … or as near as made no difference . |
| 21 | However , there were people there who were ‘ greatly desiring that she had been out of that country ’ , and she bustled off to York , where the Archbishop paid a man five shillings to lead her out of the town . |
| 22 | In spite of her unwillingness to join the outing , and the remote mood she had been in for most of the day , in the last few minutes she had begun to feel herself a real person . |
| 23 | When you have been up for half an hour on a normal working day , how do you feel ? |
| 24 | You can establish a much deeper contact with a partner through much of this year and , if you have been passion-less for some time , be prepared for things to change considerably . |
| 25 | She 's been out with enough lads to know he 's the right one for her , ’ Maureen said . |
| 26 | So we 've been up for some time cos the arms are wet where he 'd been sucking it ! |
| 27 | We 've been out on this balcony a long time , and no one has come to interrupt us . |
| 28 | mind you , I 've , we 've just finished eating our tea , we 've been out to all hours doing the lawn , you know cutting the lawns all round the house |
| 29 | We 've been back to some of the places in the film to see what changes there 've been and to talk to some of the people who were in the original film . |
| 30 | We 've been back to some of the houses featured in the original film to see how they 've changed . |