Example sentences of "[vb past] been [adv prt] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anyway , er they we , they moved out last Friday so this week when he rang me , they 'd been round past the hotel and er there 's walls being knocked down ! |
| 2 | And we went , because it , it 'd been at five o'clock you see , it 'd been up to the second , that was when it was up to the second step |
| 3 | It looked as if she 'd been up in the loft for something , which I suppose was rather rash in her state of health . |
| 4 | She 'd been back to the shop twice hoping to chase the progress of her textiles order . |
| 5 | Maggie immediately thought of the lack of seagulls she 'd noticed when she 'd been down at the sea-front . |
| 6 | It was just that , well , I heard he 'd been down at the police station this morning . |
| 7 | He 'd been down to the coke-cellar beneath the church , where the stage was stored , and with the assistance of Mr Peniket he 'd tried the curtains for size . |
| 8 | ‘ If you 'd been out on the street — ’ Georgiades looked at Nikos — ‘ instead of sitting on your ass in a cool office — ’ |
| 9 | Checking his watch , he found that he 'd been out of the cabin for a little over three hours . |
| 10 | After all , I 'd been out of the Army a full six weeks by then . |
| 11 | It was the first time I 'd been out of the cell since 15 May . |
| 12 | Yeah , well I 'd been out to the bin and er , he was just sort of erm by the ground by the bin bags the wood round the corner and er then he was sort of coming and he was like dying to come and have a stroke but |
| 13 | She no doubt thought I 'd been out in the sun too long . |
| 14 | I did n't , it was so cold yesterday , we 'd been out in the morning and I decided to put him in his cot , on the odd occasion I do , do , he 's gone to sleep without any problems |
| 15 | That morning Sara had been up with the dawn to walk for the last time in the castle grounds to say goodbye to her doves , her servants , her horses and her hounds , the last of which seemed to sense what was happening and started howling as soon as she had departed . |
| 16 | Slorne , who had been up at the back of her cage most of the day as usual , suddenly opened her wings , swung round and dropped down to the front of her cage . |
| 17 | Patrick , so he told Franca , had been over to the flat at Victoria and had had a ‘ talk ’ with Marcus . |
| 18 | They had been on to the energy crisis , for example , years before it hit politics . |
| 19 | If International had been around at the time of the Vikings , there 's little doubt whose paint would have been used to keep those marauding longships in prime condition . |
| 20 | Sometimes , he assumed the Elder had been around since the Creation . |
| 21 | He was like an old car that had been around in the neighbourhood for a long time , loaned out among your friends , used and passed on , so that when it got to you in your time , you knew what you were getting . |
| 22 | Some of those who had been out to the countryside or into factories to do their ‘ social practice ’ were even more critical of the existing regime . |
| 23 | Paula Harrison , of North Green , Staindrop , had been out for the evening with friends when she fell 15ft from the bridge into the Tees on Saturday . |
| 24 | But that had been out of the question , of course . |
| 25 | It had been out of the question to recognise — reluctance . |
| 26 | Many of Rosemary Cook 's respondents in the Rhondda , who had given birth to children during the inter-war years , said that birth control had been out of the question despite the fact that the birth rate for the Rhondda fell dramatically during the inter-war period . |
| 27 | I found it hard to believe that , even if he had been out of the country , his family could have moved away without his knowing . |
| 28 | Cadfael knew of none besides Tutilo who had been out of the enclave that night , but a man intending such a deed would hardly publish his intent or let anyone know of his absence . |
| 29 | No rivets could be used that had been out of the refrigerator for more than two hours . |
| 30 | Counsel for the ‘ Seventeen Towns ’ , claimed by Finch to be within the forest bounds , produced in rebuttal the perambulations of 1298 and 1300 , and their confirmation by Act of Parliament in 1336 , urging also that these towns had been out of the forest by ‘ the long and constant Usage ever since . |