Example sentences of "be [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ There 's a man here , ’ Ma said with an air of wonder , ‘ been down a pothole for one hundred and thirteen days . |
| 2 | At least I do n't mean that — not a good show for you , I know — but frankly when you 've been down a long time it is a good show to see someone from home and get all the news . |
| 3 | Although I 've not been down a mine since then , er the German mines to my er estimation were far more advanced than what the British mines were . |
| 4 | We went there on Sunday , me and Bella , after we 'd been down the prom . ’ |
| 5 | In marriages in which only one of the partners has been down the aisle before , the number of divorces has jumped 67 per cent since 1980 . |
| 6 | None of the five Moroccans had been down the Nfis and verbal information gleaned had been contradictory . |
| 7 | Otherwise he 'd have been down the line after us like a shot . |
| 8 | What should the post-Christian then hold of the religion that there has been down the ages ? |
| 9 | ‘ How long since you 've been down the kennels ? ’ asked Constance . |
| 10 | I 'd been down the prom on my bike , and was riding up the posh part to our street . |
| 11 | I remember one time er these barges , old barges when you used to come up there , they ai n't got any engine in 'em at all because now they got motors in 'em , but erm , at that time , I was asleep one night and er these barges had been up , they 'd been down the the engine room , cos the engine room and the stoke hall was all in one and th and then I was so sound asleep they 'd filled the sacks up with coal and took them up over the and took the only thing they did do they did n't take the shovel they 'd used , cos they bought their shovel from off the barge and they left that downhill that 's how they 'd pinched the coal . |
| 12 | The others went in the car and when I arrived on the bike a little later they 'd been down the 51 steps to the house and found it like the Marie Celeste , everything open , radio playing but no-one around . |
| 13 | I said that 's fuck all right I 've been down the canteen . |
| 14 | He 's been down the railway station today ! |
| 15 | Been down the job centre then ? |
| 16 | Not been down the cottage today ? |
| 17 | And they 'd been down the Lake District , they were from the Lake district . |
| 18 | I have n't been down the Roman for ages . |
| 19 | ‘ We 're up the dale a bit . |
| 20 | ‘ Well , they 're up the creek . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ I think we 're up the creek . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ We 're up the creek because we do n't know where to go from here . ’ |
| 23 | I think , I do n't know if , I 'm finding it quite difficult at the moment because he , he 's sort of neither one thing nor the other and we 're out a lot sort of |
| 24 | in case we 're out a bit longer , I said , Tony said we could leave him out there , but like he said if he starts weeing on the carpet |
| 25 | They were here initially , but they 've gone outside , they 're out the front . |
| 26 | We 're back a week on Friday here on Scottish with Scotsport Extra Time , at ten-thirty , and |
| 27 | Why should we be worried anyhow : the longer it take everyone to realise we 're back the more victories we will pile up . |
| 28 | HEAVEN is my witness that I do not want to be unfair to British Telecom , so I must , with frank and honest gaze , report that I have had several letters saying that I am up the pole in carrying on about the method of charging recently mentioned in this column . |
| 29 | The public toilets are up a very steep slope , causing difficulties for wheelchairs . |
| 30 | It is now up a quarter on what it was 10 years ago , investments are up a third , productivity is up by a half and exports are up by three quarters . |