Example sentences of "[pron] have be for " in BNC.
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| 1 | " I feel worn out , much more than I would if I 'd been for miles on the moor . |
| 2 | But at the time I felt rejected and useless , because I was n't needed in the way I had been for so long. , |
| 3 | Such an attitude required fresh springs of energy , and the effect — I was delighted to sense it as I woke each day — was to make me more bouncy and mettlesome than I had been for weeks . |
| 4 | First good watch I had was for my twenty first , I 've still got , it still goes |
| 5 | ‘ The improvement and the form suggests it 's the best Welsh pack since the Triple Crown in 1988 , so yes I 'm more optimistic than I 've been for some time ’ , said the 43-year-old ‘ Panther ’ , who is now a schoolmaster in Swansea . |
| 6 | ‘ Ethel turned me into a frog and that 's where I 've been for the last day , and it was her fault . |
| 7 | ‘ I 'm better than I 've been for a long time . ’ |
| 8 | I can have one of these now I 've been the worst I 've been for about six months I really ! |
| 9 | Oh , I wish I could have continued as I 've been for the last year or so , with no hopes or fears , and no pleasures and no sadness . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ I 'm happier than I 've been for years , ’ she said quietly . |
| 11 | ‘ Where I 've been for the past 200 years or so , we count ourselves lucky if we still have one . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ I took it up as a form of exercise in Germany , where I 've been for the past two years , ’ he said yesterday . |
| 13 | I 'm just getting now because erm erm I 've been for an aud not an audition . |
| 14 | I 've been for an interview with Mencap . |
| 15 | Just even I 've been for a wee ! |
| 16 | There ought to be a space or an empty page or maybe even a change of typography to show that I have been for the past three and a half hours out in the streets or sitting full of thought on that gilded and trembling bridge over these lazy waters . |
| 17 | ‘ Gentle , indeed ! ’ she said ‘ And if I were as gentle in the market as I have been for him at home , how does he think I would manage ? ’ |
| 18 | I 'm more optimistic than I have been for the past few years . ’ |
| 19 | This is the most upbeat I have been for more than a year . ’ |
| 20 | But I 'm in better shape than I have been for a long time . ’ |
| 21 | I am much slimmer and a better shape than I have been for some time ( or for months , years , etc. ) and I am going to get even slimmer and achieve an even better figure — a figure I never thought I could have . |
| 22 | Boozy Dennett — who earns £600 a week with his dummy Chick — added : ‘ I have been for a walk to have a think and went back , but it 's getting worse . ’ |
| 23 | A good deal gives me the feeling that I have been for a nice seven-day trip to the Bahamas . ’ |
| 24 | Now it is three months ’ rest and come the start of the 1991 season I 'll be ready to go again , more confident than I have been for a long time . |
| 25 | I did not mean to say but perhaps it is better I should , therefore only remark that I will speak on the subject in my next , but do not suffer alarms on my account — I am in better health than I have been for years and I hope to get to Sydney and get comfortably settled in good time … ’ |
| 26 | I have was for many years the national chairman of the Association of Independent Businesses . |
| 27 | This process directly undermined the rule of law : ‘ such transference of authority saps the foundation of that rule of law which has been for generations a leading feature of the English constitution . ’ |
| 28 | The trauma underlying religion , which has been for long periods of time forgotten , remaining latent in the unconscious , was also a mixture of sexuality and aggression . |
| 29 | It was a depressing and dispiriting experience , exactly as life itself has been for the young unemployed , day in and day out . |
| 30 | As Elisabeth , Rosalind Plowright sounded more secure than she has been for some time on British stages and sang her last aria with true Verdian pathos and passion . |