Example sentences of "[verb] [been] [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In marriages in which only one of the partners has been down the aisle before , the number of divorces has jumped 67 per cent since 1980 . |
| 2 | What should the post-Christian then hold of the religion that there has been down the ages ? |
| 3 | We went there on Sunday , me and Bella , after we 'd been down the prom . ’ |
| 4 | I 'd been down the prom on my bike , and was riding up the posh part to our street . |
| 5 | I remember one time er these barges , old barges when you used to come up there , they ai n't got any engine in 'em at all because now they got motors in 'em , but erm , at that time , I was asleep one night and er these barges had been up , they 'd been down the the engine room , cos the engine room and the stoke hall was all in one and th and then I was so sound asleep they 'd filled the sacks up with coal and took them up over the and took the only thing they did do they did n't take the shovel they 'd used , cos they bought their shovel from off the barge and they left that downhill that 's how they 'd pinched the coal . |
| 6 | The others went in the car and when I arrived on the bike a little later they 'd been down the 51 steps to the house and found it like the Marie Celeste , everything open , radio playing but no-one around . |
| 7 | And they 'd been down the Lake District , they were from the Lake district . |
| 8 | I 'd been out the army about three days and I went to this dance with some army mates . |
| 9 | Otherwise he 'd have been down the line after us like a shot . |
| 10 | very pretty and er , it looks as if she ought to have been up the disco having a dance , any way |
| 11 | Most people agreed that Pike had been out the night before working on it with an industrial fan . |
| 12 | None of the five Moroccans had been down the Nfis and verbal information gleaned had been contradictory . |
| 13 | ‘ So you 've been up the barrow , ’ Jos said out of the blue , as he lined up on the final double . |
| 14 | No , no there 's not I mean I 've been doing this for fifteen years , and quite simply is , if you like , I 've been up the ladder , the contacts that were I 've had were relatively junior fifteen years ago |
| 15 | and I 've been up the one before that |
| 16 | after we 've been up the club |
| 17 | I 've been up the bath . |
| 18 | ‘ How long since you 've been down the kennels ? ’ asked Constance . |
| 19 | I said that 's fuck all right I 've been down the canteen . |
| 20 | I said I think that 's wonderful I said cos do you know how long I 've been out the union now , three months , well I reckon I 've saved thirty pounds , you 've got thirteen quid back |
| 21 | You can always tell when the clippers have been up the back of the neck . |
| 22 | No and what 's happened is , he 's been up the bank and er the thing has |
| 23 | He 's been down the railway station today ! |
| 24 | He 's been out the car and locked me in it . |
| 25 | I say it 's been out the , been out the , she defrost that Saturday night and you know like you I made some |
| 26 | Cos Dave 's been out the country like ehm , well it 's just under ten years , and if he stays out longer than ten years he loose , he loose his citizenship . |