Example sentences of "have [adv] [be] [coord] [verb] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | The protestors turned up in force to confront the man , but he 'd already been and gone . |
| 2 | Leave behind the places you only visit once , wish you 'd never been and vow never to return . |
| 3 | He looked slightly past them as if they had already been and gone . |
| 4 | The poachers had already been and got away with their spoils ; or when they heard the shots , they made off . |
| 5 | yeah I 've just been and put |
| 6 | The school he 'd wanted me to go to so that I could be as clever as he had once been and go to Oxford the way he 'd done and not waste it as he had been foolish enough to do . |
| 7 | The Colonel explained that he was still waiting for orders , and the General swore like the trooper he had once been and said that a French officer did not need orders when the enemy was in plain sight . |
| 8 | And worse still the binman had also been and gone . |
| 9 | ‘ Well , ’ he said in the new year , a couple of days after term had started , ‘ I 've certainly been and gone and upset Nerina , of all people . |
| 10 | Several Q.T 's have already been and have enjoyed ‘ back to the drawing board ’ . |
| 11 | " Sam here 's just been an' asked me to be his wife , " she said . |
| 12 | My old inspector who 's now been and gone , came from Newark , and he said that there was far more trouble within the public houses in Newark , er than ever there was here and he came here , imagining the problem to be a lot worse . |