Example sentences of "been [verb] [adv] [prep] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A first summit attempt by selected climbers has been pencilled in for between Friday and next Monday . |
| 2 | They had been caught up with at Dornock , east of Annan , on the shore of the Solway , by a fast-riding English host under Sir Anthony de Lucy of Cockermouth , who had crossed the shallow firth at lowest tide by the temporarily dried-out Knockeross sands , from Bowness in Cumberland . |
| 3 | As the language of the Vedic scriptures , Sanskrit has always been looked down upon by tradition as the language of the divine . |
| 4 | School is something Sophie 's been looking forward to for ages , and it 's not long before she 's settled in . |
| 5 | its the same in all jobs , look at the banks how they 've had to cut down on staff , computers have just totally took over , I mean every , every area of work more or less its been done away with by computers |
| 6 | The Collector 's eye came to rest on the corner where Miriam lay ; she was too weak to help Dr McNab now , but although she could no longer be of any service to the ailing figures who lay nearby , she had refused to let the Collector move her mattress up to the dais where the air was better and where cholera clouds would be less likely to hang ( if such things existed , which of course they had been proved not to by Dr McNab , but all the same … ) . |
| 7 | In the publicity department James Burkinshaw has joined from the Stockton Press in New York as publicity manager , Fi Henderson has been promoted publicity officer , and promotions and marketing officer Kerry Chambler has been brought in from within Alan Sutton . |
| 8 | RUGBY LEAGUE : Ellery Hanley , the Great Britain and Leeds skipper who has been out of action since last November , suffered a calf muscle injury in training and has been ruled out of for Leeds ' game at Warrington on Sunday . |