Example sentences of "[pron] have been here [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | But now I 've been here nine times and I ca n't go sightseeing . |
2 | I 've been here nine years in August and I 've cut no end of it down . |
3 | We walked past a tanker where a huge man named Andy Matthews was pumping vinyl acetate into a 10,000-gallon vat , wreathed in its sweet , sickly smell : ‘ I 've been here two years , ’ he said . |
4 | ‘ I 've been here all day — here in Oxford ! ’ |
5 | I 've been here all the time . |
6 | I 've been here all morning . |
7 | ‘ I 've been here 18 years and I am amazed at how many more conservation concerns there are today , ’ said an Iowa agriculture official . |
8 | One mistake I 've made since I 've been here that is . |
9 | And I opened the door and let him in and he was telling me I 've been here half an hour trying to get in . |
10 | Anyway I 've been here twenty years — since I left school , and Edwin Garland was my uncle by marriage . ’ |
11 | ‘ I 've been here some time now and it 's never happened before . ’ |
12 | I 've been here three months but so far I have n't seen anything — I have n't had a chance , I 've had hardly any time off . |
13 | I 've been here three years now and it 's been improving all the time . |
14 | I feel just as guilty because I have been here five Sundays and not come to church on any of them . |
15 | ‘ You have been here a week , Holly , I have been here one hundred times longer . |
16 | I have been here eight and a half years now . |
17 | ‘ I know this because I have been here several times when I was younger . |
18 | I have been here less than a week and already it feels like home , ’ he said . |
19 | ‘ Unfortunately I can not join you , because I am expecting a very old friend of my family , who has been here all these years , ’ she said . |
20 | She 'd been here four days and it was high time she wrote to him . |
21 | You 've been here all that time ? |
22 | Shelley , you 've been here all day . |
23 | When you 've been here six months you 'll nae want to see another lobster in your life . ’ |
24 | You 've been here two days now , and we 've still hardly discussed the divorce . |
25 | So do you feel that erm I mean I know that you 've been here twenty one years , and do you think women are more important or less important in the factory than they were ? |
26 | Now you 've been here several months , have your feelings about Chrysler changed ? |
27 | You 've been here three weeks — I tell you , when it is three years you will run to the window with the rest of us . ’ |
28 | She had been here four days now , and , true to his word , Jonas had said nothing about Travis or the jade , which now stood in its rightful place in the display cabinet . |
29 | When she had been here three days a man had trailed up the stairs , let in by another tenant , hammering on her door . |
30 | ‘ No , she 's been here all night . |