Example sentences of "[verb] been here [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The quarry has been here 200 years and is part of the landscape , rather than a blot on it . ’ |
| 2 | He has been here eight years . |
| 3 | Raskolnikov has been here three years . |
| 4 | She 'd been here four days and it was high time she wrote to him . |
| 5 | I says , You should have been here five minutes ago , we did a marvellous job . |
| 6 | well I 've given many , many different answers here , I could have been here all day , giving you just between point five and point six , and you 'd have been giving one as the answer every time . |
| 7 | Well at least he 'll have been here this weekend to find |
| 8 | should have been here this morning |
| 9 | with a spirit-level ; could n't have been here ten minutes |
| 10 | One day when the driver arrived at ten minutes past ten an angry customer berated him : ‘ You 're late , you should have been here ten minutes ago ! ’ |
| 11 | The best thing they could say about London was , ‘ you should have been here ten years ago ’ . |
| 12 | Any ideas on that score swiftly evaporated , however , when his glance suddenly shot to hers , and she was on the receiving end of his piercing eyes as , ‘ According to this , you should have been here last Friday ! ’ he charged . |
| 13 | ‘ You should have been here last week , ’ Bob continues . |
| 14 | It 's wrong , Mr Deputy Speaker , if they 're living in this country erm on a semi-permanent basis and happen to have been here last October they 'll have a vote so will any everybody else who 's a citizen of the European union , so will peers of the realm who happen to be living elsewhere whether they 're in this country or outside this country under these regulations and previous regulations , have a vote in the European elections and I think it 's wholly wrong that erm citizens of other European countries namely France because that 's the one and it 's remarkable is it not that France is the one that 's gon na be the cause of this whole edifice collapsing if we do n't submit to their extra demands but citizens of France who are citizens living in their colonies , as I 've said in South America , the West Indies and the Pacific , will have a vote in the European elections on June the ninth and yet we have got citizens for whom we are responsible for in this house , we can not shirk it onto anyone else , we deny them the responsibility and I think it 's about time the house addressed this matter . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | When she had been here three days a man had trailed up the stairs , let in by another tenant , hammering on her door . |
| 17 | Kuttner Dowd had been here several times , though never when the Society was assembled , as it was tonight . |
| 18 | You 've been here two days now , and we 've still hardly discussed the divorce . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | ‘ I 've been here all day — here in Oxford ! ’ |
| 21 | Shelley , you 've been here all day . |
| 22 | I 've been here all morning . |
| 23 | When you 've been here six months you 'll nae want to see another lobster in your life . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ I 've been here 18 years and I am amazed at how many more conservation concerns there are today , ’ said an Iowa agriculture official . |
| 25 | we 've been here twelve hours |
| 26 | But now I 've been here nine times and I ca n't go sightseeing . |
| 27 | I 've been here nine years in August and I 've cut no end of it down . |
| 28 | Now you 've been here several months , have your feelings about Chrysler changed ? |
| 29 | 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 . ’ |
| 30 | 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 . |