Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] have been [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 's scored four in just five starts , and said : ‘ It 's been a good start but I still do n't think I 've been at my best . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ Ach , come on , you would think I had been at the whisky already . |
| 3 | I mean I 've been at meetings where they ( IMG ) have said ‘ We 'll hand you ( rugby ) a cheque for $2 million ( £800,000 ) for the year . |
| 4 | Well , I , I , I mean I 've been to one , to a meeting , they had in Manchester a few years ago , Irene 's been to some . |
| 5 | I mean I 've been in two shops now there 's fifty pound difference like , you know |
| 6 | I mean I 've been in more pubs than I 'd say longer than most people who drink a lot and er you know it 's just be I think music and and song is the big addiction in Ireland not the drink but because er it it the chances of a music session starting in a pub is just you know the chances are that it probably will at some stage of the day . |
| 7 | I mean I 've been in quite a bad mood this week actually but it 's really , like you know standing up for myself cos anyone that 's rude to me now gets it right back in their face . |
| 8 | I mean I have been into this window frame business . |
| 9 | Since he had a lady so much more deserving than myself , I could have wished I had been of his sex and then there never would have been a more perfect friendship . |
| 10 | Yes and er if I might s oh I er do n't know I 've been to bloody shop meself but I ai n't sorry about it , cos I 've done what I 've wanted to do and I 've enjoyed what I 've done and erm the authorities they get 'd me that on er hardship grounds there , as I say , being on er residential premise and er they showed me great respect and er |
| 11 | ‘ I have to cover myself from my superiors , ’ said one , ‘ because they 'll know I 've been on site . ’ |
| 12 | Sheena , can I be the odd one out and say I 've been in love with one man for forty five years , I have n't heard any body saying any thing very nice about that , I would like to say its wonderful . |
| 13 | Do you know you 've been off school from what ? |
| 14 | He could not know she had been on the beach long enough to see what had happened . |
| 15 | I 'd forgotten you 'd been in it . ’ |
| 16 | And how did you know we 'd been to Nice ? ’ |
| 17 | The current , soon to retire , director of the Association , who came with me to meet him had been in London for a meeting of the environmental advisory group for and so he was having a taxi to Kings Cross which I jumped into too and got dropped off at Goodge Street , right outside the door of my next ( Industrial Editors ) meeting with just a few minutes to spare , so that went more smoothly than one might have ever dreamt or hoped for . |
| 18 | ‘ Wigan will certainly know they 've been in a game . |
| 19 | I expect they 've been in the gallery have n't you ? |
| 20 | Hounslow councillors say they had been under the impression that relations between them and the police were slowly improving , although Mr Wetzel and John Connolly , the influential chair of housing , continue to boycott the statutory police consultative group . |
| 21 | How did she know it had been like that ? |
| 22 | Over three-quarters of credit users reckon that its cost has been reasonable ( see Appendix I , Table 24 ) , and less than one in ten say it has been at all unreasonable . |
| 23 | But he underlined sharply too , how discouraged and disappointed he had been at the inability of his own Department of Agriculture and the Department of Economic Development to sort out their roles in the scheme of things . |
| 24 | She says Chris , that 's her in office , she 's told me that I 'm off the subsidy now , she says I 've been on it twelve week and er |
| 25 | he says I 've been to Wembley |
| 26 | aha and he says I 've been to the nice wee man he says he remembers ah going round all the houses looking for somebody to do in Apple Street and he went and told what 's his name ? |
| 27 | I put I had been to the grammar school and I got my O levels . |
| 28 | Well I hope I 've been of some help . |
| 29 | I hope I 've been by the time |
| 30 | As for HMS United she had been on station at the rendezvous ; but as it is barely possible to see a 10,000 tonner at 400 yards on a rough night there is little chance of seeing the recognition signals from a canoe when these torch or RG beams are a mere four feet ( just over a metre ) at arm 's length above the waves . |