Example sentences of "[verb] be [adv prt] [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Purists might argue he should 've been out in the colds using his sketchbook , instead of a camera , but he disagrees . |
| 2 | A police squad has been out on the streets rounding up school truants . |
| 3 | Lindsey came on and sat in for a couple of numbers and really enjoyed being back on the boards with us lot . |
| 4 | Their song is of regret and exile , its core the oxymoron of ‘ this far land ’ — ‘ this ’ land is the real land , Middle-earth , ‘ far land ’ ought to be the one Elbereth is in beyond the Seas . |
| 5 | It was just that , well , I heard he 'd been down at the police station this morning . |
| 6 | And whereas it might be argued that Granada would have kept a strong news operation in Newcastle , control would have been out of the hands of the region . |
| 7 | He has to keep these kids in the team because there 's nothing better to replace them — yet even five years ago Jamie Redknapp and Don Hutchison would have been back in the reserves , getting the time they need . |
| 8 | He had been out on the streets all day and his face was running with sweat . |
| 9 | Sir Richard , in hose and open cambric shirt , wiped dust from his hands , apologising that he had been out with the craftsmen who were putting the finishing touches to their pageant for the young king 's coronation . |
| 10 | The child who opened the door to him was the one that had been out in the fields with his father . |
| 11 | He had been serving in France when he met her , they had married as soon as the Hun had been finished off , and after the honeymoon it had been back to the colours for him and straight over to Ireland . |
| 12 | When he went round the corner to her room and knocked , she would have to pretend that she had been down to the kitchens . |
| 13 | This original small port and fishing village had been down on the marshes adjoining the Rother , not far from Rye , and given to Fécamp Abbey by Cnut . |
| 14 | ‘ And if you do n't get out of here I 'll tell him you 've been up in the woods with a dog . |
| 15 | And they 've been trendy the last two or three seasons , they 've been back with the classics have n't they ? |
| 16 | Yes , I was working at Walsall airport er Walsall electrics , sorry , at the time and er I 've been out to the pictures I , with a couple of friends and er I got home this particular evening and I put the late night dance music on on the radio and they , they interrupted the programme to tell us that er Germany had accepted unconditional surrender and the war was over . |
| 17 | I mean I , I , I do n't drink a lot , I mean maybe after I 've been out in the hills you have got to drink something to replace the sweat , but I 'm not a great drinker and I do n't , I do n't smoke and I , I do n't like discos or anything like that |
| 18 | She 's been on about the Brownies ever since she was seven , the age at which Granny says girls can join . ’ |