Example sentences of "[adv] [been] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | featured the last er three years some of the other companies have only been here since last year and the year before so I mean we 're a national tour operator |
2 | But he had only been away for three days . |
3 | In fact he had only been away from the town for one period of six years when he was at university in Aberdeen . |
4 | I tried to recall friends ' telephone numbers as an exercise , but astonishingly , though I had only been away from home for fifteen days , could only manage my own , my sister 's and my mother-in-law 's . |
5 | Emily had only been away from home twice , and each time she had been very unhappy . |
6 | A clergyman who was in Manchester Cathedral when the second device went off said : ‘ I had only been there for a matter of seconds when I heard an almighty crump . |
7 | He 's a new environment officer , he 's only been there for a month or something . |
8 | Perhaps not as bad as Buff , because the animal had only been there for a second or two and I had told them it was a robot . |
9 | This team have only been together for less than a year and it is getting better all the time . |
10 | The best-informed guess from those collecting ‘ yellow card ’ adverse reaction reports has long been that at most only 10 per cent of serious reactions , including death , and considerably less than 1 per cent of mild reactions come to the CSM 's notice . |
11 | The remaining four had all been backstage at the relevant time , or could have been , but the motives Charles had managed to dredge up for them did n't survive close scrutiny . |
12 | The man talked a lot about karma and said that they had obviously been together in a previous incarnation , but now their birthdates were not synchronized . |
13 | LADY DAVERS : Have you not been a-bed with my brother ? |
14 | It 's not been away at all . |
15 | In short , the strategic choice in British and American urban policy has not been simply about the encouragement of economic development , it is also about the changing nature of that development itself , more specifically the changing nature of the labour process in an economy designed for the post-Fordist era ( Lash and Urry , 1987 ; Murray , 1989 ) . |
16 | ‘ Since you had not been here for a fortnight , ’ he said , ‘ I assumed that you had completed your enquiries . ’ |
17 | Can I just clarify one other point with the County Council and for the benefit of those who 've not been here for the last however many days . |
18 | He had certainly not been here on the day that she and her parents had briefly visited Leo 's quarters . |
19 | The players who have not been here before now know what the New Zealand experience is like . ’ |
20 | It might not have been a very long missive , but it brought Aubrey into the room as if they had not been apart for two whole years . |
21 | She had not been far behind him , and yet had heard no sound to prepare her for this . |
22 | Mere existence had not been enough for him , in the Epilogue 's diagnosis ; he had always wanted something more . |
23 | Even such an exalted pedigree as this , though , has not been enough for some of Britain 's big stores . |
24 | Of all the things she had expected from life , the events of the last twenty-four hours had not been remotely near them . |
25 | This popularity has not been all to the good , but having said that , the Rottweiler has now made friends who are concerned with his welfare . |
26 | ‘ Well , if you do , do you think any of them would have signed this form if it had not been all in order and above board ? ’ |
27 | There had not been much to Clive . |
28 | Until now , Offa 's Dyke had not been much in evidence but from Chirk Castle beyond Oswestry 's old racecourse there is a sizeable stretch . |
29 | For some years now I have not been much in society . |
30 | With her enchanting grin , which had , sadly , not been much in evidence of late , she added , ‘ I expect Sheila from down the road had been in with her ‘ Mr Sheen ’ … ’ |