Example sentences of "been [verb] [adv prt] [adv] in [art] " in BNC.
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1 | Grandma used to say they were like chalk and cheese , and that they should have been shaken up together in a bag to get more of a mixture . |
2 | Any thoughtful linguist must wonder from time to time if such a legacy can have been shaken off completely in the relatively short time during which scientific linguistics has existed . |
3 | Her picture and her silk quilt had been carried down below in the chaos of last night and she did not have the energy to seek them out . |
4 | And this weakened commitment may in turn be a by-product of the intensity of the subject commitments that have been built up elsewhere in the school curriculum . |
5 | Nevertheless , applications in many organisations have been built up piecemeal in an unorganised , often chaotic way . |
6 | The bodies of two young boys have been stitched back together in the mortuary of this place . |
7 | You could have been lying out there in the farmyard all night ! ’ |
8 | Duane 's artistic bent has been shown off frequently in the group 's Invasion of The Wedding Present fanzine . |
9 | Sam said , ‘ Morning , ’ but Camille glanced at him haughtily and looked away : she considered that she had no time for the working classes , although her mother 's best friend had been brought up here in the olden days before the supermarkets and the middle class had come to compete for space . |
10 | These had been brought up sharp in a mathematically exact line by one of those old-fashioned razors that the previous generation had employed for more antisocial purposes . |
11 | The H3 building had been put up hastily in the early 1950s to get the scientists out of their first accommodation that had been little more than Nissen huts . |
12 | Still , he had been knocked out twice in a short space of time and would appreciate some rest . |
13 | As a little boy , Adam had sometimes been sent up here in the morning to fetch the letters and the paper , carrying with him a wicker bottle-basket for the milk . |