Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [been] [adv] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 The best-informed guess from those collecting ‘ yellow card ’ adverse reaction reports has long been that at most only 10 per cent of serious reactions , including death , and considerably less than 1 per cent of mild reactions come to the CSM 's notice .
2 It seems to me that anyone attracted to practising psychology or psychotherapy or psychiatry has not been so without some needs of their own .
3 ‘ Old Mr Fiddle has not been there for some time , Rose , ’ said Dagmar from the door .
4 Even such an exalted pedigree as this , though , has not been enough for some of Britain 's big stores .
5 After three weeks at his new contract , Cole has not been home before 8.30 in the evening once , so the idea that all contract catering chefs work nine-to-five is a fallacy .
6 ‘ He has n't been here for some time , ’ Hari answered .
7 ‘ I do n't understand it , he has n't been here in ten years !
8 He has n't been home for twelve months
9 We 'd never been apart from each other for more than two weeks when I was arrested .
10 He just disappeared , as if he 'd never been there at all .
11 But he had only been away for three days .
12 It might not have been a very long missive , but it brought Aubrey into the room as if they had not been apart for two whole years .
13 She had let her overwhelming desire feed her imagination ; had read something into his words , his looks , his actions , which had not been there at all .
14 Perhaps she had not been there at all , in the street , but a phantom instead had taken her place , looking like her , feeling like her inside too , but not her , for she , Rosa , had been in her bed , dreaming .
15 ‘ Gay , you 've always been rather like that , have n't you ? ’
16 There had always been more in common between the front benches than either had in common with their followers in the country .
17 He had always been so against any kind of what he called ‘ gobbledygook ’ .
18 References in the work of Constantine Porphyrogenitus , written in the tenth century , indicate that they were settled in Dalmatia in his time and had probably been there for two hundred years .
19 It had probably been there for some time !
20 The doctor , who had now been there for some time , and was looking at his watch , had been explaining .
21 I had n't been there for more than a minute when the skipper bellowed : ‘ This is melanoma country , mate .
22 The couple next door said she had n't been there for several days .
23 You bozos do n't seem to realise it but if we had n't been there at that Florence Conference , would not be in the leading position it currently holds with the commission to guarantee further funds and to create a positive role for Britain in Europe with the commission to wuk look at the issues that are gon na come up in 1993 .
24 We used to , we , I used to go when my husband was alive we used to go to erm Devon cos I had a brother living in Devon we used to go there , but er unfortunately I lost him when he was only fifty with a coronary , and so erm , in , cos and after that I lost my husband you see so cos we I 've never been away like that before , not , not since , years ago that was , he 's been gone twenty one years this Christmas sixteenth might be so , I 've not been able to so I , I , I go with the erm , I went with the Red Cross this year the year before last I went erm er , Char Charlie took me away we went to er a chalet we stayed at and er a friend of mine we went there for a week had a week there , that poured of rain every day , this year it poured of rain every day
25 I 've never been anywhere like that , to drive through .
26 Fine China we had a very poor first four months but then in May world sales were nine point nine percent ahead of last year and in the U S A over the last ten weeks we 've actually been ahead of nineteen ninety .
27 The composition by age of children in children 's homes had always included some adolescents but they had never been together in such large numbers before .
28 featured the last er three years some of the other companies have only been here since last year and the year before so I mean we 're a national tour operator
29 This team have only been together for less than a year and it is getting better all the time .
30 It 's not been away at all .
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