Example sentences of "[be] [adv prt] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not been down the cottage today ? |
| 2 | And they 'd been down the Lake District , they were from the Lake district . |
| 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 | ‘ How long since you 've been down the kennels ? ’ asked Constance . |
| 6 | What should the post-Christian then hold of the religion that there has been down the ages ? |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | None of the five Moroccans had been down the Nfis and verbal information gleaned had been contradictory . |
| 9 | I have n't been down the Roman for ages . |
| 10 | Been down the job centre then ? |
| 11 | Otherwise he 'd have been down the line after us like a shot . |
| 12 | He 's been down the railway station today ! |
| 13 | I said that 's fuck all right I 've been down the canteen . |
| 14 | ‘ Well , they 're up the creek . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ I think we 're up the creek . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ We 're up the creek because we do n't know where to go from here . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ We 're up the dale a bit . |
| 18 | They were here initially , but they 've gone outside , they 're out the front . |
| 19 | HEAVEN is my witness that I do not want to be unfair to British Telecom , so I must , with frank and honest gaze , report that I have had several letters saying that I am up the pole in carrying on about the method of charging recently mentioned in this column . |
| 20 | They are also thinking too much about what counts and when you do that you are up the creek , and at the moment Gloucester have not got a paddle |
| 21 | I always say it will be done in a fortnight ; this gives me more leeway if things go wrong and if I get the garment finished before the two weeks are up the person is usually delighted . |
| 22 | ‘ I just been up the school , ’ answered Nelly , undoing her coat . |
| 23 | MARRIAGES which involve a partner who has been married before are more likely to end in the divorce courts than ones between two people who have never before been up the aisle . |
| 24 | ‘ So you 've been up the barrow , ’ Jos said out of the blue , as he lined up on the final double . |
| 25 | You can always tell when the clippers have been up the back of the neck . |
| 26 | Have you not been up the ramp before ? |
| 27 | He will have learnt from Iacocca , pursued excellence , been up the organization and spent one minute as a manager . |
| 28 | No and what 's happened is , he 's been up the bank and er the thing has |
| 29 | very pretty and er , it looks as if she ought to have been up the disco having a dance , any way |
| 30 | I 've not been up the garden at the back but those on the front are . |