Example sentences of "[subord] [pers pn] 've been [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Where I 've been for the past 200 years or so , we count ourselves lucky if we still have one . ’ |
| 2 | From the mid-'50s , where we 've been for quite some time , we 're suddenly into the '60s , 1961 in fact , and a finger-picked instrumental written by Chet Atkins , entitled Trambone . |
| 3 | He and his wife , Nellie , live in a Home in an outer city suburb where they 've been for fifteen months . |
| 4 | Well I like my mum and dad here ( adoptive parents ) 'cause I 've been with them for some years , but there again , I like my own father as well ... we still think of him and would like to go and visit him . |
| 5 | What , what time erm although I 've been to San Franciso , I 've never worked out what time the evening news is there . |
| 6 | There are traps you can fall into if you do too much television — although I 've been on a lot since '89 , I do tend to turn most things down . |
| 7 | ‘ The improvement and the form suggests it 's the best Welsh pack since the Triple Crown in 1988 , so yes I 'm more optimistic than I 've been for some time ’ , said the 43-year-old ‘ Panther ’ , who is now a schoolmaster in Swansea . |
| 8 | ‘ I 'm better than I 've been for a long time . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ I 'm happier than I 've been for years , ’ she said quietly . |
| 10 | ‘ So you 've been with them ? ’ |
| 11 | ‘ So you 've been to Woodbrook ? |
| 12 | So after you 've finished training , you 're going down to the library , yes , to look up the names of the people luve in Street , and once you 've been on that appointment you 've got to go back to the branch and you 're gon na do your mail shots whatever you 're gon na do , put it in there . |
| 13 | The police do n't let you go , once you 've been to prison . |
| 14 | People look down on you , once you 've been to prison . |
| 15 | Once you 've been to Blackpool you 'll find that you want to keep returning again and again . |
| 16 | I says I know , you have n't been to see your team here , he says right once you 've been to Wembley the second time 's never as good it 's just that |
| 17 | Right and also comments and suggestions although we 've been in the business for a number of years , er comments and suggestions are always er welcomed and and and considered very carefully . |
| 18 | Geraldine had lost both her parents the year before , so we 've been through a lot of the same feelings . |
| 19 | Ah it 's the acne it 's I ran out two weeks ago , so we 've been on holiday I had to get those prescription . |
| 20 | ‘ When once we 've been to a place , we 're liked . |
| 21 | But once we 've been through , once we 've had our pre-meeting , |
| 22 | Some of Britain 's rivers are now cleaner than they 've been for years . |
| 23 | But if China really is now backing peace and free elections , the signs are more hopeful than they 've been for a decade . |
| 24 | I do n't think the theatre 's ever been endowed with a great deal of fundings but one or two companies in the town that have been prepared to fund obviously the one that strikes me is Gilbey 's cos the Gilbey bar I mean that was funded and like they 've been over the years they have given money even fact as a sad note cos Gilbey 's have actually demised now erm General Portfolio have actually taken on the role in Harlow of funding many things if you actually look all most things that have sponsored until recently have been sponsored by General Portfolio so they 've been to the fore in er fundering funding . |
| 25 | I think we have to be a little bit careful about this because , of course , erm the feeling is not that once they 've been in the job for a little while that they are still amateurs , it 's merely that we do n't require them to know a great deal about what they 're going to do before they start . |
| 26 | I can just hear your voice answering the phone , as if I 've been to the shop for some ciggies and I 'm back late . |
| 27 | I ca n't remember if I 've been in bathroom and picked them up , Steve 's getting a sod with him getting bath every night |
| 28 | Yes Chairer , why do n't we pat ourselves on our , on the back about this it would it be useful i in in the the report , a further report that 's gon na come forward if there could be some indication as to actual format that was adopted when a person goes to one of his welfare panels , cos I 've been to three and there does n't seem to be any consistency whatsoever in the way that things occur or whatever ! |
| 29 | And I think er Well Pat and I have discussed that a little bit as well , cos I 've been under some pressure in this direction with Alice . |
| 30 | I could 've come earlier cos I 've been over Tracey 's since quarter past one , as I was coming out the Jehovah Witnesses were coming out |