Example sentences of "[been] [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
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| 1 | Yeah it 's been on so many times . |
| 2 | Yeah , have you been on before ? |
| 3 | Well I think he 's been on before and he 's quite a decent chap , I think . |
| 4 | Well he 's never been on before . |
| 5 | It has been on before . |
| 6 | This one 's been on before . |
| 7 | Mummy this one 's been on before . |
| 8 | you 're a radio virgin are n't you , you 've not been on before ? |
| 9 | Has that been on before ? |
| 10 | At a recent training course that I 've been on apparently public services could have been protected since nineteen eighty one . |
| 11 | Been on quite a few weeks |
| 12 | I 've been on once once or twice but no |
| 13 | Had been dead no more than an hour when he was found … |
| 14 | Well , she 's been dead longer than that , has n't she ? ’ |
| 15 | She 's been dead longer than Louisa , but … ’ |
| 16 | Roxie had been dead right too , as it turned out . |
| 17 | It could almost have been dead already : a passive progression from birth to death with no awareness of life at all . |
| 18 | If she had n't been dead already the shock of his going to prison would have killed her . |
| 19 | ‘ But she was very brave and amazed the doctors by doing things when they thought she should have been dead long ago . ’ |
| 20 | 30 " He was dead when he went in , and as he 'd been dead only for about six to seven hours , it could n't have been longer than that . |
| 21 | He 's been dead more than thirty years , and no one sees his plays now . |
| 22 | The testicle had been dead so they had taken it out and sent it off for tests . |
| 23 | The voices that had been loudest only seconds before were the quietest now . |
| 24 | ‘ Someone , ’ said Inspector Milsom meaningfully , ‘ seems to have been altogether too careful to my way of thinking . ’ |
| 25 | It had been altogether too much to expect . |
| 26 | At a time when it would have been altogether too easy to disappear into the exacting but ultimately limiting routine of grammar-school teaching , Alfred Cobban enlivened and enlarged my interest in scholarly work . |
| 27 | John Dunner , the head of the National Radiological Protection Board , in an aside , made the interesting suggestion that perhaps there had been altogether too much information available about nuclear energy , rather than too little , ready material to use , either uncomprehendingly or fully aware , to stoke up polemical fires . |
| 28 | There 's been altogether too much guilt — too much pain already . |
| 29 | Not only had the reception of The Family Reunion been altogether more favourable than the ill-started attempt in 1939 , but both this play and Murder in the Cathedral were to be performed at the first Edinburgh Festival in the following year . |
| 30 | These bonds , subtler and more difficult to observe and interpret , have been most extensively studied in the experimental herd of Camargue horses at Tour du Valat . |