Example sentences of "[been] [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 31 | I 've just been down to the grubber . |
| 32 | Sharpe has been down with a calf strain this week but he trained yesterday and does not look in danger . |
| 33 | ‘ I 've been down under the sea , you know ! |
| 34 | She 's act she er they 've been down for a for a flying visit , I think , th they like to fly and fly back because it gets th the fre used to the freedom . |
| 35 | This original small port and fishing village had been down on the marshes adjoining the Rother , not far from Rye , and given to Fécamp Abbey by Cnut . |
| 36 | I would rather have been down at the villa making figgy hedgehogs for Tony but a promise is a promise . |
| 37 | Maggie immediately thought of the lack of seagulls she 'd noticed when she 'd been down at the sea-front . |
| 38 | His wife in her innocence told us he had been down at the steamer when we landed and had slipped out of sight , and next morning he had left at six o'clock to go and visit a small island North of Jura where he had never been known to go before . " |
| 39 | It was just that , well , I heard he 'd been down at the police station this morning . |
| 40 | ‘ She might have been down at the jetty a couple of hours ago . |
| 41 | then she said they 've been down at the this time of year |
| 42 | My friends who lived nearby were all envious for I was the only one who had ever been down into the depths of the mysterious cellar . |
| 43 | In the middle ages Margaret had had a wonderful time ; women had understood then that it was not to other mothers that you turn in childbirth , it is to those women who have lived it , who have been down between the dragon 's teeth , have travelled the dragons ' pathways and have lurked in the dark and boiling belly of pain , have been chewed and digested and emerged . |
| 44 | The stout landlord , who had been down in the cellar fetching a fresh keg of ale , lowered it to the floor . |
| 45 | Madeira can claim to have been in at the birth of modern tourism , along with such famous nineteenth-century resorts as Baden-Baden , the Italian Lakes and the French Riviera . |
| 46 | " We in Christian Aid are proud to have been in at the start of this magazine which campaigns relentlessly for a better , fairer , environmentally purer and politically more aware world . |
| 47 | A legend in the power boat world , Shurdington signwriter , John has been in at the top of his sport for over 30 years . |
| 48 | As one teacher said , ‘ I rather resent people coming in and criticising when they have n't been in on a regular basis ’ . |
| 49 | I 've never been in on a Friday afternoon because erm |
| 50 | → Sorry to have forgotten about the Pacifica , Graham — although , come to think of it , Charvel/Jackson might also have been in on the act back in the mid-eighties . |
| 51 | Well it 'll been in on the table . |
| 52 | Wassall must have been in with a chance of winning the £10,000 first prize because he was the fifth fastest qualifier , with a time of 11.92sec for the 100 metres . |
| 53 | Could they have been in with the real Communist underground ? ’ |
| 54 | It must be twisted or summat cos it 's never done it before when I 've been in with the you know , to go bingo . |
| 55 | Because they 've been split between school , between young classes , my daughter 's been in with the eight year olds . |
| 56 | Previously they have been in with an instructor or parent . |
| 57 | He had only been in for a few nights after his first summer holiday in the five years I 'd owned him . |
| 58 | I did n't know Julia had n't been in for a long while . |
| 59 | you see , if you put a line it costs you about a hundred a thirty quid now I think , but according to what they tell me , once a line has been in for a year if you put a line in , you 've got to pay the first year , its got ta be in for a year , if you have it taken out before the year , you 'll still be due for the rental on it |
| 60 | But the they give it you at the end of the quarter , even if you have n't been in for a quarter . |