Example sentences of "[vb base] [pron] [verb] be [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well it does , I mean it 's it 's I mean I 've been there about just over three years , three and a half years . |
| 2 | with all those redundancies a couple of months ago , I thought that 'll be it , I mean I 've been there |
| 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 | My long-suffering boss said the other day , ‘ pity you 've been poorly ever since you 've been fit ! ’ |
| 5 | Maxima and minima , but I 'm not gon na bothered with that one Now what I suggest you do is just jot this down . |
| 6 | I expect she 's been too busy to answer , he thought , what with the war and everything . |
| 7 | ‘ I expect you 've been too busy . ’ |
| 8 | Cos I say she 's been there thirty years so she must do alright , everybody knows |
| 9 | And er all I want you to do is just ring the answers . |
| 10 | But today , angry customers like Banbury businessman , Michael Cratchley , who forked out £4,000 for a holiday in France , say they 've been badly let down . |
| 11 | Most of the airmen and women fly home in January but some say they have been here so long that this is their home , they 'll be staying in England . |
| 12 | Since the time of Tsao Ch'un it had been so . |
| 13 | But some say it 's been too high a price to pay . |
| 14 | The playground has been built by another Hereford firm , who say it 's been quite a challenge . |
| 15 | er and and and nice to know that we want to establish contact and you may be aware that we 've had this plan , and , and what we want it to achieve is so and so , and we 'd like to set it up in this way . |
| 16 | The police have questioned Mr Probyne and say he 's been very helpful , but they have n't ruled out any line of inquiry : |
| 17 | But privately , close friends say he has been extremely worried . |
| 18 | In Leicestershire their probate inventories show them to have been essentially large-scale farmers , generally working 100 acres or more , sometimes occupying two or more farms extending into more than one parish , renting additional pastures , and with few exceptions distinguished from plain husbandmen by superior wealth . |
| 19 | Ronny replaces Swindon-striker Fjortoft for the game tonight — Ronny must have done well in the training sessions ( coach Olsen really put some value on how the players perform in training before the games ) and Fjortoft which has been even worse for Swindon than Deano for us might have a hard time to get the attacker place back ( Fjortoft 0 — Deano 3 — Cole 10 is n't it ? ) . |
| 20 | Since July 1991 , statistics show there has been around a per cent drop in part-timers . |
| 21 | The village reached its peak in the middle of the 19th century-when the population reached 846 and the occupations listed in the census of the time show it to have been totally self-sufficient . |
| 22 | The fact that we did n't win when we were so close and then let it slip is very disappointing . ’ |
| 23 | 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 |
| 24 | now , I mean you 've been very to Neil over the last year or so and I mean now it 's time to get his act together . |
| 25 | Look I 've been there , I 've seen it got the here we are |
| 26 | Wright will have a key role in Vilnius tomorrow as Northern Ireland begin what has been disparagingly described as the ‘ battle of the also-Manager Billy Bingham is unlikely to make many changes from the team which lost 3–1 in Spain last month ; Iain Dowie should come in to replace the injured Philip Gray . |
| 27 | You know I mean because all the people that have come to show support and er solidarity have done it er I mean we 've been very aware you know the quarry men have actually said you know no we do n't want you to actually block the land rovers we do it our own way and erm you know there 's been no out of control mass picketing or violence or anything like that . |
| 28 | I mean we 've been very |
| 29 | ‘ Christina , I know I 've been here a year longer than you but I 'm sure you 've worked these things out for yourself by now . |
| 30 | ‘ I know I 've been here loads of times before , but … ’ |