Example sentences of "[verb] be [adv prt] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | I must 've been out at the wrong time . |
2 | Anyone believing that the personal computer price wars have abated are in for a rude shock this week when Compaq Computer Corp brings out a plethora of new machines , including its first stab at a multimedia model , and cuts prices significantly on its existing products . |
3 | My department 's equivalent of Inspector Morse has been on to the change-of-address problem . |
4 | Hypnosis has been around for a long , long time . |
5 | Europe has been around for a few thousand years and to be the first European under ten seconds … well ! |
6 | litre turbocharged engine , a revamped version of the Ford diesel unit which has been around for a few years . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | I 'm trying to find out what sort of emotional state your daughter has been in over the past six months . |
9 | Conference , we are all well aware of the terrific financial burden that this union has been under over the last few years . |
10 | The Yorkshire captain has been out with a broken finger since the opening day of the championship season and it was thought he would not be fit until next week . |
11 | 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 . |
12 | Saturday night socialising is down to the bare minimum since the children arrived . |
13 | 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 . |
14 | 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 . |
15 | She 'd been out with an earlier crew . |
16 | She enjoyed being out in the crisp fresh air , enjoyed every moment of stepping out on well-worn pathways with trees all around . |
17 | 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 . |
18 | 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 . |
19 | This is because all the variation margin payments due will have been up to the penultimate trading day . |
20 | ‘ 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 . |
21 | 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 . |
22 | Could they have been in with the real Communist underground ? ’ |
23 | 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 . |
24 | 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 . |
25 | Now it , it does sound , ninety five per cent sound a lot , but the actual numbers involved are up from a hundred and twenty three to two hundred and forty . |
26 | And they had the , the erm they had sort of five out of the five or six horses that I thought were in with a good chance at eight to one . |
27 | What they felt was out in the open and they both knew it could go no further until whatever lay ahead was over . |
28 | Do n't be too quick to condemn or criticise people you think are up to no good or are getting special treatment for one reason or another . |
29 | Do n't be too quick to condemn or criticise people you think are up to no good or are getting special treatment for one reason or another . |
30 | 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 . |