Example sentences of "[pers pn] 've been [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 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 | To be able just to walk , or drive , wherever you want ; Christ , I 've been away from all this for less than a week and I feel like somebody coming out after thirty years . |
| 9 | I 've been away from my part of the family since I was fifteen . |
| 10 | I 've been up to my eyes in mannequins and haute couture . ’ |
| 11 | Then he admitted as he shovelled manure at a tree-planting ceremoney in his Huntingdon constituency : ‘ It occurs to me I 've been up to my neck in this stuff for the last month . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ I 've been up to my ears , ’ he says . |
| 13 | Well the , the er the Guilds I can speak now because I 've been up to a higher level , I 've been on the section and Birmingham is a very big area . |
| 14 | What that basically means , wherever that happens anywhere else in the country , you go to South Wales , you go to West Lothian , places like that I 've been up to West Lothian , all services are reduced when your main industry 's removed from an area . |
| 15 | I 've been up to church . |
| 16 | See she , she came around cos erm I 've been up to her , her friends place to and give him a bit of a telling off like and that and erm she came to John 's house and I said , why are calling ? |
| 17 | ‘ I 've been up for the past three hours , ’ he said , looking me up and down rather coldly . |
| 18 | I 've been up for a bath and we 've been looking at the room I shall occupy . |
| 19 | ‘ It 's not that early — I 've been up for ages , and I 'm leaving in a few minutes . |
| 20 | Yeah , you 're gon na have one in a minute I 've been up for ages ! |
| 21 | No , I 've been up for an hour ! |
| 22 | I 've been up since the crack of dawn . ’ |
| 23 | I 've been up since six . ’ |
| 24 | I 've been up since half past seven . |
| 25 | I 've been up since quarter to five . |
| 26 | No , he 'll be out went out at ten to seven but over a sort of I 've been up since seven , I 've not really sat down all day . |
| 27 | you see , so yeah and er we used to have as I say er , well for instance I 've been up in the office . |
| 28 | And I 've been up till , I 've been paining me all night Doctor , |
| 29 | No , no I 've never been down and er they 've always been full of water whenever I 've been up around there . |
| 30 | ‘ I 've been right through it but there 's no address or anything . |