Example sentences of "[verb] [been] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What they might 've been up to . |
| 2 | But if I 'd 've , if I 'd 've been up I 'd 've got it . |
| 3 | You could 've been on |
| 4 | I could have stayed at Street till I was fourteen , I could have stayed at Street until I was fourteen , and then you would 've been out . |
| 5 | Purists might argue he should 've been out in the colds using his sketchbook , instead of a camera , but he disagrees . |
| 6 | I must 've been out at the wrong time . |
| 7 | He wou he would 've been down there . |
| 8 | It should 've been back by now , some day in March , twenty eighth of March |
| 9 | If you 'd 've known then what you knew after you wouldn't 've thought it were funny , you 'd 've not been chucking nowt you 'd 've been off . |
| 10 | I think that as professional drivers we would all w look at that and s and see that Er I mean been out with very many lorry drivers and er that is the way that I 've sort of been with the majority of the guys that I 've been in . |
| 11 | But , apart from a winter break , whatever is planned around the 23rd relates to one specific plan or association which has been on and off for several months and is now back on again . |
| 12 | ‘ On a machine that no nome has been on for fifteen thousand years ? ’ said Masklin . |
| 13 | Branch has been on . |
| 14 | This is quite often the cause of the ‘ 1701 — hard disk error ’ reported during Power On Self Test when the drive is cold which miraculously seems to cure itself when the system has been on for a while and the drive has warmed up ’ . |
| 15 | ‘ A girl called Louise Stacey has been on to them , asking how she could contact you . |
| 16 | ‘ I hear the English faculty has been on to Humphrey already , ’ he volunteered . |
| 17 | Since then the search has been on to acquire a Lockheed Constellation for the collection . |
| 18 | My department 's equivalent of Inspector Morse has been on to the change-of-address problem . |
| 19 | The honourable member has been on to say that his mother was upset about her appearance here , not least because she felt it was invading her privacy . |
| 20 | I , I have n't been on but you 're the first people I 've told this to , I have been out with somebody who has been on |
| 21 | And me bloody petrol gauge has been on half way along Scunnie Road . |
| 22 | It has been on before . |
| 23 | A friend of mine Dave who wrote half the album with me and produced the album has been on at me for five years , come on let's make an album , let's make an album , let's make an album , making a , let's make an album er and a few record companies have come on and they 've always wanted me to do an album like maybe , let's prepackage old sixties ' songs and revise them , or let's do love themes from T V shows and which would never have interested me , so I said to Dave , you know when a record company comes with an offer to make an album , to do the album I wan na do then we 'll do one . |
| 24 | Version 1 of Rescalc has been around for some years and is today regarded as rather palaeolithic . |
| 25 | Brittle bone disease , or osteogenesis imperfecta , has been around for at least 4,000 years . |
| 26 | Strangely enough the best stress-buster of all has been around for thousands of years : massage . |
| 27 | Chaka Khan has been around forever , and recently her trademark whoops and screams have sounded a little forced . |
| 28 | I can not take the credit for inventing this — it has been around for many years . |
| 29 | Electronics is a universal tool that has been around for a while and which can be used to control electrical circuits — not a common art form . |
| 30 | The idea has been around for 80 years . |