Example sentences of "[pron] have been [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | yes , and I , I do n't know whether I 've been that way , I honestly do n't know right then , so you 're all systems go , that 's the main thing |
| 2 | I 've been many things in my life , but I 'm not a liar . ’ |
| 3 | 'Cos I 've been this morning and I 've cleared fireplace out , washed |
| 4 | I 've been enough trouble . ’ |
| 5 | I have been many things in my time . |
| 6 | When I get back Lucker wonders where I have been all night . |
| 7 | The pure white drifts of snow against the door of the hut convinced me that nobody had been that way recently . |
| 8 | Even as she said it she recalled the growing doubts and disgust which had been another spur driving her to accept Clive 's invitation . |
| 9 | Lucy was weeping as she had been that afternoon . |
| 10 | Later , much later , Kelly was to reflect on how lucky she had been that day . |
| 11 | when she had been all hugs and trust for her father . |
| 12 | It was barely five a.m. and dawn was just breaking , but she was wide awake , as she had been all night long . |
| 13 | It was Marguerite as she had been many years ago , and Jenna saw what her father had seen , what she herself saw now — the attraction of kindness , of calm good humour . |
| 14 | She had worn a full-length coat because it was all she had that was decently subfusc ; now she wished that she had been less conformist . |
| 15 | ‘ You have been this way before . |
| 16 | Go on , ask her where she 's been all afternoon , dressed up like a tart and missing for bloody hours . |
| 17 | Rovers have made enormous strides in the past 14 months and we were totally committed today — as we have been all season . ’ |
| 18 | We 're all on air , we have been all morning |
| 19 | While attention has been paid to the modification of adjudicative procedures to meet the requirements of a particular area , there has been little thought directed to the broader question of whether adjudication is the correct decision-making process on which to be fashioning procedures . |
| 20 | There has been little change in the combined market share of the six national brewers owning more than 2,000 pubs since February 1989 . |
| 21 | According to the Office of Population , Censuses and Surveys , there has been little change in breast-feeding patterns in the last decade . |
| 22 | In Britain , to date , there has been little experience of union influence over selection amongst the technical and social options for information technology . |
| 23 | At this age , there has been little hassle from the police : only an awareness that crime scars their neighbourhood . |
| 24 | But there has been little legislation directed specifically towards women . |
| 25 | Even though various initiatives have been undertaken by way of the provision of guidance , there has been little knowledge of the actual practices employed within the nontrading segments of the public sector . |
| 26 | There has been little work on the pathogenesis of migrating larvae of S. equinus . |
| 27 | But so far there has been little sign of it . |
| 28 | So far , though , there has been little sign of anyone wanting to start a branch in London . |
| 29 | For decades , there has been little choice within the UK credit within the UK credit insurance market . |
| 30 | What happens to the grief reaction when there has been little warning of the impending death , or for various reasons , where there has been no opportunity to be involved in the preparation process ? |