Example sentences of "[adv] be [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since their lavish £200,000 wedding 14 months ago , they have rarely been out of the headlines — but for all the wrong reasons . |
| 2 | After so many attempts , that day could not have been more rewarding , and I 've since been back at its summit twice . |
| 3 | The new Landrat of Gunzenhausen , a former Franconian bastion of National Socialism , wrote in his first monthly report after the end of the Third Reich , in August 1945 : ‘ Although the war has only been over for a few months , National Socialism is hardly ever spoken about , and when at all , only in a negative sense . |
| 4 | Another argument is that advertising has only been around for a while , so how can that be the reason for all our hang-ups , but that 's not true either . |
| 5 | How do you know this is love , your prose side whispers like a sceptical lawyer , it 's only been around for a few weeks , a few months . |
| 6 | It may seem as if it has been with us forever , but the ubiquitous American Express chargecard has , in fact , only been around for 35 years . |
| 7 | The Cobra had only been around since 1962 , but the Ace , on which it was based , dated back to 1953 , when it had been launched at Earls Court . |
| 8 | Oh do n't it 's only been on for about er , the last half an hour it 's not it 's a cross a crucifix is got bigger on it . |
| 9 | He 's only been up since quarter to three |
| 10 | I mean there were only been about at the most ten who were suffering from burns . |
| 11 | ‘ But I 've only been down to the banister to pick up my coat . ’ |
| 12 | Having worked for a number of years now in community health services , previously erm in Yorkshire , in fact I 've only been down in Oxford about four or five months , I 've learnt how important it is in fact to make good working contacts with members and officers of other organizations , and particularly of local authority organizations . |
| 13 | I 've only been back on the case , in cosmic terms , about two-and-a-half minutes . |
| 14 | He had only been back for a few hours when company orders were posted showing that Colonel Hamilton wished to see Lance-Corporal Trumper at eleven hundred hours the following morning . |
| 15 | He had only been out with on other girl in his life . |
| 16 | ‘ I do n't dislike it , but I 've only been out with Charles about three times … ’ |
| 17 | Auntie Mavis has only been out for five to ten minutes twice cos of her knee . |
| 18 | It broke Perdita 's heart that Ricky , who 'd only been out of top-class polo for three years , was totally ignored . |
| 19 | I 've only been out of prison three months . |
| 20 | ‘ Lenny 's only been out of the jug five , maybe six weeks , ’ said Lloyd . |
| 21 | Since 1969 , Ron and Reggie Kray have only been out of prison once . |
| 22 | The men had only been out of jail for about two years after being sentenced to 10 years for firearms offences and plotting to kidnap an Eton schoolboy and hold him to ransom , but the judge said he accepted the men had both paid the price for these crimes and sentenced them to 4 years in prison . |
| 23 | He had only been out of his house for two nights so he was not going to start to do criminal things . |
| 24 | He had only been in for a few nights after his first summer holiday in the five years I 'd owned him . |
| 25 | Quality systems have naturally been around within Ciba Geigy for a long time and all aspects of manufacturing on the site have been registered to ISO 9001 since 1987 . |
| 26 | Both had been returned by huge majorities , having long been out of office . |
| 27 | The wearing of beards had long been out of fashion at Rome : as we have seen , the contenders for power at the death of the Republic imitated the clean-shaven kings of the Hellenistic world . |
| 28 | ‘ After all , they have n't long been out of a very warm secure environment , have they ? ’ she continued . |
| 29 | The Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra 's reputation has long been out of all proportion to its representation on record , at least in the West . |
| 30 | I had n't long been back from my honeymoon when my new wife was given another fright . |