Example sentences of "but [pers pn] have [adv] been [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's unlikely that anybody does it too often , since trippers tend to make skiing an all-day outing , but I 've often been on the beach with people planning a ski trip next day . |
| 2 | ‘ But I 've never been to the Lodge . |
| 3 | but I 've never been to it |
| 4 | As you may know , our family lived in NZ from 1969 to 1978 and last year we returned for a 6-month tour , but I 've never been over the Haast Pass so that is a personal goal for me ! |
| 5 | Paul 's dad , but I 've never been in a bus with Paul 's dad . |
| 6 | He was quite aware of my childish misdemeanours , but I had n't been to confession since I returned from Egypt , and I thought he would be profoundly shocked by what I should have to tell him . |
| 7 | Felipe had let me drive around the hacienda but I had never been on a road . ’ |
| 8 | I used to be , but I have n't been for a long while I used to we ca n't say that I was there last year but |
| 9 | Yes , but I have n't been to work today . |
| 10 | ‘ But I have just been to America , where England will play a big tournament next summer against the US , Brazil and Germany . |
| 11 | ‘ They told me I was in Thailand with him but I have never been to Thailand in my life . ’ |
| 12 | U , of spectral type M , appears to be irregular , with a range of from 5.6 to 7.5 ; EU ranges from 6.0 to 6.9 , and is also of type M. It is said to be semi-regular , with a period of around 60 days , but I have never been at all confident about this . |
| 13 | He is as you know , 67 , but I have never been amongst those who thought that he was growing old and tired … he is , I think , just as fit as the day when I first saw him in July 1946 . |
| 14 | But she had only been on the mountain for two hours , three at the most . |
| 15 | She meant his earnings , not the yield of the toy-shop business , but she had never been in the habit of referring to them so distinctly , let alone to the fact that they were thin on the ground at the moment . |
| 16 | It was her idea to come here each summer , but she has n't been for three years now . |
| 17 | But she has n't been in touch with her colleagues for four months . |
| 18 | Sacha Bull is 4 weeks old , but she 's already been through more than most people experience in a lifetime . |
| 19 | But she 's actually been in bed for five days . |
| 20 | but she 's still been on her own . |
| 21 | well we always had entertained friends but we 'd never been in a position to put them up so that erm most of our friendly visits were from people who did n't live very far from us , it meant that families , nieces , nephews etcetera were difficult to accommodate because they had to sleep on a couch or a settee in the living room with all its diff difficulties , especially when it meant in the morning for breakfast you had to get them up and dressed before you could start thinking about breakfast , and I think that those sort of things are things that er people ought to take into consideration when thinking about new housing . |
| 22 | It looks as if there is a walk down there but we 've never been on it but tell you where you may be thinking of , you may be thinking of that walk that goes towards the erm adventure park at the other side of Buckfastleigh . |
| 23 | But we have n't been for months . |
| 24 | Accidental fires do happen when the Peak is very dry but we have n't been in that situation yet . |
| 25 | I do n't like the cold snaps but they have n't been for long have they ? |
| 26 | It is often the case that the specializing groups are of type ( i ) , with formal membership , but they have also been of types ( ii ) and ( iii ) . |
| 27 | Mum and Dad are my greatest fans , but they have never been to a meeting ! |
| 28 | Today the large populations are in varzea rich in fish and turtle protein , much smaller ones on the terra firme , but they have now been in decline for some 500 years since the European invasion . |
| 29 | But he had n't been at the PCC because of recovering , still , from the flu . |
| 30 | Peter was a poor salesman , but he had n't been at DPR quite long enough yet to get sacked . |