Example sentences of "been [adv] [prep] [noun] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although the first half had been surprisingly passionless , it was Liverpool who were easily the better side , and had Ronnie Rosenthal seized three opportunities , they would have been comfortably in front by half time . |
| 2 | And er , that we have , we have been largely on target with those items that were put forward , as has been the objectives and , and some of the targeting of the agreement itself . |
| 3 | Mandru had been away on business for much of the time since Lucien had arrived , so performances had been few . |
| 4 | No , no , I have been away on business for these past few months . ’ |
| 5 | Indeed , all the staff have been away on courses on this . |
| 6 | And I th , I think about a great deal because it 's a very strange , it 's a very strange thing to talk about but when I came to Suffolk , I might have told you this before er , I had hardly been away from home at all , I was only seventeen when I first met him |
| 7 | Women who have been away from work for some time and are seeking to re-start can take the first steps to a new career at a Women Returners Event to be held tomorrow in Middlesbrough town hall crypt . |
| 8 | He might have been more at home in some of the radical Protestant sects that began to appear in England and — later — in America during the seventeenth century . |
| 9 | First of all I that at no time have the Labour , the Liberal and the Conservative not been totally in favour of this fire station . |
| 10 | Road pricing has been up for discussion for some time as a possible way of alleviating the high levels of traffic congestion in many city centres . |
| 11 | She 's been back in Scotland for several years now , and she did n't know that Ryan was dead . |
| 12 | João had been out with Fernando for most of the previous night and looked pale and tired , but Maria Iñes said this was all to the good , because it made him look older and readier to take on the responsibility of a wife . |
| 13 | By then the Faulkner administration had been out of existence for some months and hostility to it no longer rallied the public . |
| 14 | Roger : It 's designed to help people who have been out of work for more than a year . |
| 15 | THE number of people who have been out of work for more than a year broke through the one million barrier today for the first time in five years . |
| 16 | ‘ Mind you , it 's no wonder she 's been out of sorts after that dreadful business at the tech … and Major Ford tittle-tattling all over the village . ’ |
| 17 | The originals were never formally withdrawn , but have been out of stock for some time . |
| 18 | The originals were never formally withdrawn , but have been out of stock for some time . |
| 19 | The N2 tank 69523 which has been out of commission for several years now , is slowly making headway towards full restoration , with the lining-up of the axles boxes , re-wheeling . |
| 20 | ‘ And you 're fingering Billy to have been here on Sunday on some sort of animal liberation commando raid ? ’ |
| 21 | He would have been quite at home in those Trafalgar square riots . |
| 22 | He had been apart from Irina on many occasions — too many — but a permanent separation was something he still had to get used to . |
| 23 | It was known , also , that the old lady had been friendly with his mother ; and anyway , being a bachelor and retired , he could usually be counted on to take sufferers to hospital in emergency , or bring them home ; as well as visiting murderers in prison , and other tasks ( often called do-gooding by people who have never been remotely in need of that particular little world ) . |