Example sentences of "[adv] [pers pn] have been [prep] " in BNC.

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1 er I think we get a saturation point and the thing that annoys me is that young fellow who came to the club had a got , we got a special went to the special trouble of getting a for him and I can not get it off him and he lives up Newton way somewhere I 've been to him three times
2 When I arrive somewhere I have been in a previous life , the ground greets me .
3 Perhaps I have been over enthusiastic about this project , but there was something about the schools I visited , and I am no stranger to African primary schools , which seemed to me to provide a recipe for steady progress .
4 So I 've been onto the bastards today and I said like twenty one days is up and I 've I 've got like twelve hundred pound you know .
5 I said so I 've been to a local firm and he said well if you 'd wanted a job we could 've found you one , so I went to the Co-op and I went in the credit , working in the Co-op credit and er went from there to .
6 I 've always been skiing with my parents , so I 've been to America to visit friends , and that 's not been like sightseeing , or something , and I just have n't been anywhere , and erm , I mean , I suppose I 've been to a lot more countries than a lot of people who 've , you know , there 's a lot of people who have n't
7 So I 've been to Rome and places like that .
8 tunnel , you know , so I 've been through there
9 So I 've been in touch with Brian again erm and I said , ca n't you make sure that your blokes can do it in a day .
10 I 've spent 14 years in East Africa , most of it working with tropical rainforest and its utilisation , so I 've been in Uganda , which is a relatively small country as far as forests are concerned .
11 Apparently she 's been off all week .
12 Huy wondered how long she had been in the capital , and how she had got there .
13 Or perhaps she had been in too much of a hurry to change .
14 It fenced up security-wise and everything else so we 've been on it overtime and and painting and decorating and getting the
15 So we 've been through quite a lot of those and it 's it , the case does n't really stack up .
16 However long they had been in Wimbledon , the suburb had not yet managed to curb their enthusiasm .
17 How long they have been in partnership I can not be sure , but they show all the signs of a close musical understanding — temperament and technique in the service of the music , rather than vice versa , plus a healthy respect for the demands of textural clarity .
18 Perhaps they had been on the other side of the ditch all the time and were hidden by it now .
19 Perhaps they had been in the Rorim long enough for the animals to become used to each other .
20 Perhaps they 've been for their walk , this one looks as if he 's so old he can hardly !
21 So they 've been about being erm
22 Okay and finally erm are London boroughs erm yeah blank blank , eighty six election and the next London borough elections will be in nineteen ninety four so they 've been in nineteen eighty six , nineteen ninety and nineteen , they will next be in nineteen ninety four .
23 And they 've gone all , you see I have n't been eating them so they 've been in the fridge and they 've gone all soft .
24 She tried to make allowances , constantly reminding herself of the responsibility Nathan was carrying and how long he had been without sleep .
25 I asked him how long he had been with the Republicans and he said , ‘ Three weeks — I 'm a sales manager and I 've been given leave of absence by my company just to produce last night 's rally . ’
26 " Can you estimate how long he 'd been in the water ? "
27 I do n't know how long it 's been on the bed , but it 's far too damp to sleep in .
28 But perhaps he had been to a Harley Street specialist — it was easier to imagine the long holiday being recommended behind thick net curtains in one of those tall houses with several brass plates on the door .
29 I thought perhaps he 'd been to you and sort of were you interested and he he 'd come back .
30 Then he remembered ; appropriately enough it had been at the party when Slater had first introduced Graham and Sara to each other .
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