Example sentences of "[vb base] been [adv prt] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I said three flights that I 've been on in the last fortnight . |
| 2 | ‘ I 've been up for the past three hours , ’ he said , looking me up and down rather coldly . |
| 3 | Well the , the er the Guilds I can speak now because I 've been up to a higher level , I 've been on the section and Birmingham is a very big area . |
| 4 | ‘ No one knows what I 've been through in the last 12 months , ’ he said . |
| 5 | What we 've been through in the last few years has brought us a lot closer , and that 's part of the reason I 'm getting out of the rat race of international cricket … certainly for a few years , anyway . |
| 6 | Maybe we 've just misunderstood , even though we 've been around for a long time , my own trades council in Battersea and Wandsworth celebrated its hundredth anniversary this year . |
| 7 | Chairman before before you do finally er pack your bag and zoom off back to wherever it is you 're going , could I on behalf of the county council and all of our participants here today and those who 've been around in the last fortnight thank you and Miss Whittaker and your assistant able assistants er Mrs Binns and Dave in the programme office for the sterling work they 've done . |
| 8 | Yolanda said : ‘ We 've been round to the new house and it is lovely . |
| 9 | Yolanda said : ‘ We 've been round to the new house and it is lovely . |
| 10 | then she said they 've been down at the this time of year |
| 11 | So erm yes I think everybody 's very very disappointed as I think we probably heard with Paul Simpson because United certainly in my books , played some of the best football I 've seen them play since they 've been back in the second division in the erm first half , but really did let things slip away a little bit in the second . |
| 12 | By which time the tenants have come home from work or they 've been out for a few hours , say they 've been out from twelve till six . |
| 13 | While I 've been out in the fresh air enjoying myself she 's been stuck in this featureless boarding house , wondering if I 'll ever come back . |
| 14 | With regard to the flats I mean , one o erm the flats have been up since the late sixties and erm now they 're gon na be coming down . |
| 15 | Lick and stick stamps have been around since the 1840s , but by the turn of the century it 's thought self-adhesives will be the norm . |
| 16 | As W Somerset Maugham once pointed out , short stories have been around for a long time . |
| 17 | Artificial pitches have been around for a long time , and this was particularly well illustrated in Holland , where they were rolling out their red shale-type material and putting coconut matting over it 40 years ago . |
| 18 | In looking for the answers , let us begin with those citizens who have been around for the longest time — the elderly and those in later middle age . |
| 19 | For the last three days ten novice sailors have been out in the Western Approaches , sailing in winds of 40 knots or more through occasional sleet showers . |
| 20 | Well Peter , I 'd I 'd love to say yes , as you know , but erm they 've gone to Swindon the last two years since United have been back in the second division , and really they 've performed dismally . |
| 21 | ‘ We have been down to the bare bones before . |