Example sentences of "been [adv prt] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ There 's a man here , ’ Ma said with an air of wonder , ‘ been down a pothole for one hundred and thirteen days . |
| 2 | At least I do n't mean that — not a good show for you , I know — but frankly when you 've been down a long time it is a good show to see someone from home and get all the news . |
| 3 | Although I 've not been down a mine since then , er the German mines to my er estimation were far more advanced than what the British mines were . |
| 4 | But erm it 's quite hard if you 've been up a lot at night and then you have to go and do the whole of the next day of work , but fortunately our rotas are n't too bad so we 're never on two nights in a row compared with the hospital which was quite a lot harder work . |
| 5 | He must have been up a tree . |
| 6 | You see , these up here 's been up a long time . |
| 7 | Having been up a ladder , only I could see how easy it is , you could fall off a ladder as simply as anything . |
| 8 | I was up going on the ski slope , and this is like , I 've been up a couple of times before , but it had been really cold and bi and I went at Easter , I was so like hot , but it 's still really good snow , and we went up there and I just could n't believe it , I just went dad , erm , oh , I do n't feel too good , and he just went , do n't be so stupid , and Nathan and I collapsed , I was at the front of this queue waiting for the ski lift and the whole queue just went |
| 9 | I 've been back a week . |
| 10 | ‘ I have n't seen either of them but I 've only been back a little while , ’ replied Melissa . |
| 11 | I suspect now that you know I mean I they might still to move given to one or two of my family members , but basically I could more openly say you know that in fact I suppose my view in Britain but not in Australia but my view in Britain is okay , the Royal Family could continue to exist they must A pay taxes B I do n't genuflect to any of them and C we 've got ta put them in perspective they 're in which is they 're a tourist attraction erm you know but I and I can make those comments which would be met by a lot of Britons with hostility , people who would totally disagree with me and say well they are the Royals and you know bow , bow , bow , but others would agree with me and that is something that has changed over the last three decades it really has , it 's changed during , during my absence in Australia , it is something you know that I came back to and I mean I kept , I 've been back about three or four weeks and there 's a pro I mean there 's some delightful radio programmes here comedy , political comedy shows and there was one show I listened to and I had been back a couple of weeks and it was about erm the Queen had a P R issue and she had to sort of do something about it , so she decided they 'd have a public execution of Edward and they described Edward was a cream puff and they the Queen and and er Andrew and everybody else was on the balcony at er Buck House and the crowds are cheering and the rolled and the the execution . |
| 12 | From the look of the pile of branches , Travis had been back a few times , but he was absent still as she added her load to the mound . |
| 13 | Yeah , been back a while have you ? |
| 14 | Well you 've bloody registered and you 've only been back a month have n't you ? |
| 15 | ‘ We 've been out a long while already . |
| 16 | We 're all well and your mother has been out a good deal . |
| 17 | They 've been out a long time colleagues , seventeen weeks . |
| 18 | ‘ It 's just that you 've been out a few times this morning . ’ |
| 19 | This was the lake that we were going to spend our time on and although these lakes had n't been fished much we did have the benefit of some information given to us by Joe Taylor who had been out a few weeks prior to us . |
| 20 | The thing is I 've been out a few times with my husband cos it 's his car . |
| 21 | Brian is , because we 've been out a couple of times and he does , I mean if we go out he 'll smoke then and then he just normally stops . |
| 22 | cos we 've been out a lot . |
| 23 | Because the common holly , Ilex aquifolium , has been around a long time and produced many ornamental varieties , you will find quite a few with fancy botanical names . |
| 24 | He is also much younger , 23 , than I thought — he seemed to have been around a long time . |
| 25 | Paul 's verdict : Bags have been around a long time now and Rohan can justifiably claim to have prompted other companies to come up with versions of their original . |
| 26 | Work by Dolores Piperno , at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama , shows that maize has indeed been around a long time . |
| 27 | And , of course , having been around a long time . |
| 28 | But as I 've already mentioned distributed database theory has been around a long time . |
| 29 | Some have been around a long time , others are of more recent origins . |
| 30 | but it cuts across , no there there comes a point where the of this world say oh am I allowed to do this , am I allowed to do that if you 've been here for more than three years right and it 's particularly prevalent in Scotland , oh are we allowed to do that , oh I did n't know and that 's old that is. old to a certain extent you know , she 's been around longer than has and been around but influenced by who 's been around a long time you see that 's where we get it , you see we do n't get the initiative coming in that area we get we get the oh Christ , bloody hell let's shove that one out the way that 's a national account . |