Example sentences of "[adv] be [adv] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since their lavish £200,000 wedding 14 months ago , they have rarely been out of the headlines — but for all the wrong reasons . |
| 2 | In fact he had only been away from the town for one period of six years when he was at university in Aberdeen . |
| 3 | ‘ But I 've only been down to the banister to pick up my coat . ’ |
| 4 | I 've only been back on the case , in cosmic terms , about two-and-a-half minutes . |
| 5 | ‘ Lenny 's only been out of the jug five , maybe six weeks , ’ said Lloyd . |
| 6 | I have personally been down to the suppliers several times and checked , and there is no doubt we will have delivery . |
| 7 | I know you 're a grown woman but so are most of the others who lurch their way down the not-so-primrosy path to the Betty Ford Clinic . ’ |
| 8 | Such would obviously be so in the case of a binding compromise ; but even where there is no consideration for the payment , it may have been made to close the transaction and so be irrecoverable . |
| 9 | It 's nice and cool inside the cellar , and not damp , though I guess it can only be just above the water table , and my father seems to know what he 's doing and is confident that the explosive has n't become unstable , but I think he 's nervous about it and has been ever since the Bomb Circle . |
| 10 | ‘ Why did n't my father tell me that you were going to be here ? ’ she asked petulantly , thinking that at least he would only be around during the daytime , and she could avoid him completely without too much trouble . |
| 11 | Oh yes , er he could er he could still have an hour lunchtime , and er only be out of the office , say , an hour and three quarters . |
| 12 | He had dealt with her honestly , not as with a mere woman , one who must necessarily be only on the fringes of her menfolk 's concerns . |
| 13 | In my brief experience , to do so is well worth the risk involved ! |
| 14 | How long was forever in the undercity ? |
| 15 | The heater of the van they drove in was hardly worth the noise it made , and no coffee was available . |
| 16 | That bread alone was well worth the journey . |
| 17 | In short , the strategic choice in British and American urban policy has not been simply about the encouragement of economic development , it is also about the changing nature of that development itself , more specifically the changing nature of the labour process in an economy designed for the post-Fordist era ( Lash and Urry , 1987 ; Murray , 1989 ) . |
| 18 | He had certainly not been here on the day that she and her parents had briefly visited Leo 's quarters . |
| 19 | Provided they 've not been out of the job all that long , I think , cos things change , do n't they ? |
| 20 | It had not been out of the cupboard for some months and it really showed off until I treated it to a stiff drink ( surgical spirit ) and a nice massage with an oily rag . |
| 21 | ‘ How about something really radical on the dangers of sunbathing without blocker ? ’ said Helena , who had just found a mole on her arm which had definitely not been there at the beginning of the summer . |
| 22 | Betty , who clearly had not washed , since she had not been down to the stream and there was no water in the cottage , padded about in her dressing-gown and slippers offering to slice the bread for breakfast . |
| 23 | Melanie had not been down to the work-room since her very first morning ; she tried not to look at the partially assembled puppets , hanged and dismembered , on the walls . |
| 24 | Tushingham 's second place in the Flying Dutchman , after winning the final race , was particularly impressive as British sailors have not been so near the top of this class since the era of Rodney Pattisson . |
| 25 | And the vast majority of the Roker reserve squad tonight are either on the transfer list or have requested to leave . |
| 26 | A porter had already been up to the suite with their luggage , she noted , as she observed that off the sitting-room — with French windows to a balcony between — were two other doors . |
| 27 | I 've already been out among the galaxies . ’ |
| 28 | And that 's er that 's a process that we 've just been through with the Harrogate and Knaresborough local plan . |
| 29 | The child who has just been away from the room has to guess who is the murderer . |
| 30 | I 've just been up to the Wembley exhibition of word processor , and one of the things I noticed there was the increasing number of processors and packages which I think you would describe as friendly or at least semi-friendly to , to help people . |