Example sentences of "[pron] 've be [adv] for " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | ‘ I 've been away for a day or two ; I lost me father . ’ |
| 2 | Well , I 've been away for three , well th the winters are n't as hard now as they used to be . |
| 3 | And then again , if I 've been shut away in the Prison of Hostages , I expect I 've been away for quite a time . |
| 4 | I 've been away for 10 years now and I 've been doing good work and making the right decisions about the work I do . |
| 5 | I 've been away for a week and I had about 70 messgaes to read . |
| 6 | I 've been away for the past week and had loads of messages to come back to . |
| 7 | No , cos I 've been away for a couple of days . |
| 8 | I 've been here for some time . |
| 9 | I 've been here for about a week now . ’ |
| 10 | I 've been here for years and this is the first conversation I 've had with a human for simply ages . |
| 11 | God Almighty , Nan , I 've been here for the past two hours without knowing hair nor hide of you . ’ |
| 12 | She said , ‘ I 've been here for three weeks , I have n't seen one movie star until now , ’ and she came over and got my autograph . |
| 13 | Well , Jim , I 've been here for three years , and no real food from that day to this . |
| 14 | Although I 've been here for a long time , I 've got my house , got my family here , I 've got comfortable living , although not er luxurious but er normal standard , better standard than I could have in India . |
| 15 | I 've been here for nearly a year now . ’ |
| 16 | Now please tell me if I 'm keeping you , I know I 've been here for a very long time |
| 17 | ‘ I 've been here for six months . ’ |
| 18 | Er , I 've been now for six and a half years , I think , at the last count , er , I know I 've served just over half my sentence . |
| 19 | I 've been inside for over a decade , the fact that I could be out soon cares me . |
| 20 | First of all I thought I 'd tell you who I was I 'm a G P in er in New Harlow , in Bush Fair , and I 've been there for nearly three years now . |
| 21 | One of the , the tasks I have to do in May each year , is I write to the candidates who 've just taken a year off , who 've been away for the last two-thirds of a year , and I write to them and say , ‘ You 've been away for two-thirds of a year . |
| 22 | There 's just one thing : what happens to band who 've been together for virtually a decade ? |
| 23 | Exactly , unless they guarantee human rights er , you see , what 's really happening especially in the Baltic , that is er there , there is an anti Russian feeling you know , and er there is element in in the Baltic Republic who want to er , want to deport the Russian population who 've been there for maybe for the last forty five years . |
| 24 | but it cuts across , no there there comes a point where the of this world say oh am I allowed to do this , am I allowed to do that if you 've been here for more than three years right and it 's particularly prevalent in Scotland , oh are we allowed to do that , oh I did n't know and that 's old that is. old to a certain extent you know , she 's been around longer than has and been around but influenced by who 's been around a long time you see that 's where we get it , you see we do n't get the initiative coming in that area we get we get the oh Christ , bloody hell let's shove that one out the way that 's a national account . |
| 25 | ‘ So you 've been here for two years , ’ teased Tony as she looked for her key and opened the door , ‘ and still no boyfriend ? ’ |
| 26 | and they were such a load of dicks when we first met , you know , and they 're just like trying to impress all the time and now I mean you 've been here for , what , a year and , year and a bit and |
| 27 | Mr Chatfield , you 've been here for , well , as you say , thirty five years — what was it like in the old days before the university was put here ? |
| 28 | " You 've been away for ages , " she says . |
| 29 | ‘ After all , you 've been away for a long time , and you know the old saying — ’ |
| 30 | One of the , the tasks I have to do in May each year , is I write to the candidates who 've just taken a year off , who 've been away for the last two-thirds of a year , and I write to them and say , ‘ You 've been away for two-thirds of a year . |