Example sentences of "[verb] be [adv prt] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I must 've been out at the wrong time . |
| 2 | My department 's equivalent of Inspector Morse has been on to the change-of-address problem . |
| 3 | The drug has been around for the last 20 years , but this is the first time the research has been carried out over such a lengthy period . |
| 4 | I 'm trying to find out what sort of emotional state your daughter has been in over the past six months . |
| 5 | Conference , we are all well aware of the terrific financial burden that this union has been under over the last few years . |
| 6 | All being well , the skies will part once or twice during the festival — only the second time the event has been out in the open air . |
| 7 | Saturday night socialising is down to the bare minimum since the children arrived . |
| 8 | But mostly it was directed towards herself , and whatever it was in her that seemed to respond to some call given out by the least suitable of men ; despite what she 'd been through in the past couple of years she appeared to have learned precisely nothing . |
| 9 | When the cab came , Charles left in a surge of family effusiveness , and then , feeling like the hero of some of the terrible thriller films he 'd been in during the fifties , he told the driver to go to Steen 's home instead . |
| 10 | She enjoyed being out in the crisp fresh air , enjoyed every moment of stepping out on well-worn pathways with trees all around . |
| 11 | One can only regard them as victims of other people 's loose ends , just as the terrible sustained anxiety of Raskolnikov 's mother and sister on his account is the measure of his power to make others suffer as well as himself in that limbo which his friend — his only friend — Razumikhin calls being out of the practical swim . |
| 12 | In terms of erm , return to work , er , we also er have been very good , I think , in the sense that we now offer the twenty-five per cent bonus er , after pregnancy , do n't get me wrong on that , er , what happens is , people are actually recompensed , given back the money which they 've sacrificed because they 've been away from work for six months , and they get is back over the next two years . |
| 13 | This is because all the variation margin payments due will have been up to the penultimate trading day . |
| 14 | ‘ You must have been up with the famous Ord Gaunt ? ’ says the man whose name Howard did n't quite catch , and the dense Middle English blackletter in which the words are uttered exactly matches their resonant profundity . |
| 15 | I suspect , though , there can be no doubt about which side she would have been on in the public debate about fox-hunting prompted by last week 's Private Member 's Bill . |
| 16 | Could they have been in with the real Communist underground ? ’ |
| 17 | Since I 've understood what management was about — I suppose that must have been back in the early 1950s — I 've had the philosophy that if I go into a job I must do it better than the bloke who 's been doing it before me . |
| 18 | The aircraft had a peculiar motion , rather like a small boat in a heavy ocean swell , or rather what I imagined that must feel like , never having been out on the open sea in a small boat . |
| 19 | What they felt was out in the open and they both knew it could go no further until whatever lay ahead was over . |
| 20 | There is history and culture there , and a trip worth making is out to the old Portuguese colony of Macau , far less prosperous than Hong Kong , probably far more like the real China . |
| 21 | The basic requirement is for a carry flag , a one-bit processor register which is set according to whether or not carry occurs out of the accumulator during an arithmetic operation ; the carry is out of the left-hand or next to the left-hand bit position , depending on whether the left-hand bit Position participates in multiple.length arithmetic or not . |
| 22 | The dahabeeyah had moored for the night and the three girls had been up on the top deck enjoying the evening breeze . |
| 23 | By now , 1345 hours , the Colonel had been up with the leading Troops for more than because two hours , and as the short Arctic day was drawing to a close he ordered the withdrawal to begin . |
| 24 | Chairman John McBaine , passing sentence , labelled it a ‘ tragic case ’ , adding it was difficult to realise what suffering Lee had been through in the last few months . |
| 25 | She knew that her presence and unwavering support was as important to the outcome as all the physical and psychological preparation that Lennox had been through in the past few months . |
| 26 | Although direct debits and cash dispenser machines had been around since the late 1960s , promotion campaigns made them farmore popular during the mid-1980s . |
| 27 | Research identified that retailers were using cheap methods of display which had been around since the 1950's . |
| 28 | Hand dragged furniture had been around since the 18th century . |
| 29 | Scott was sensitive to the pressure his wife had been under for the past month . |
| 30 | Brutally suppressed by bluecoats led by Rope Thrower , known to whites as Kit Carson , in 1863 , they had been out of the major Indian Wars because the Reservation lands given to them were so arid and dreary that even the white man did n't want to kick them off to somewhere else . |