Example sentences of "[been] [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 's been on about the Brownies ever since she was seven , the age at which Granny says girls can join . ’ |
| 2 | In March 1922 ‘ snobbish clerks ’ on the Moscow Kursk line , which had been on of the most revolutionary , in 1905 and 1917 , were refusing to attend meetings where common signalman and the like were to be found . |
| 3 | This is quite often the cause of the ‘ 1701 — hard disk error ’ reported during Power On Self Test when the drive is cold which miraculously seems to cure itself when the system has been on for a while and the drive has warmed up ’ . |
| 4 | You 've not been on for a while have you ? |
| 5 | Good you 've not been on for a while either have you ? |
| 6 | They had been on to the energy crisis , for example , years before it hit politics . |
| 7 | Crime Squad officers had quickly been on to the address in Wiltshire Lane . |
| 8 | I 've been on to the P.L.A . |
| 9 | My department 's equivalent of Inspector Morse has been on to the change-of-address problem . |
| 10 | Anyway within about half an hour he came on and umm , been on to the record company sorting out a couple of records that we hope are the things you like , plus they were going to sort you out some tickets were n't they ? |
| 11 | I suspect , though , there can be no doubt about which side she would have been on in the public debate about fox-hunting prompted by last week 's Private Member 's Bill . |
| 12 | The search for a proper definition has certainly been on in the House of Commons for several years . |
| 13 | I said three flights that I 've been on in the last fortnight . |
| 14 | But our improvement this season has been down to a team effort , not to any particular individual . |
| 15 | ‘ But I 've only been down to the banister to pick up my coat . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ I have n't been down to the sea yet . |
| 17 | When he went round the corner to her room and knocked , she would have to pretend that she had been down to the kitchens . |
| 18 | During the last week of September that year , Cornwall had been enjoying an Indian summer and Edna and Celia had been down to the Cove every day . |
| 19 | ‘ I 've just been down to the market . |
| 20 | Reuben Boll must have been down to the Canaries or Tenerife . |
| 21 | That must have been down to the policeman . |
| 22 | Melanie had not been down to the work-room since her very first morning ; she tried not to look at the partially assembled puppets , hanged and dismembered , on the walls . |
| 23 | I have personally been down to the suppliers several times and checked , and there is no doubt we will have delivery . |
| 24 | Betty , who clearly had not washed , since she had not been down to the stream and there was no water in the cottage , padded about in her dressing-gown and slippers offering to slice the bread for breakfast . |
| 25 | He 'd been down to the coke-cellar beneath the church , where the stage was stored , and with the assistance of Mr Peniket he 'd tried the curtains for size . |
| 26 | She had been down to the lochside in the early morning with a basket of crusts and potato peelings for the water birds and had left a row of neat black boot prints in the snow . |
| 27 | Adam said , ‘ I have n't been down to the cottage in an age . |
| 28 | It would have been down to the Academy to appoint the next ruler of the Seven Planets . |
| 29 | ‘ We have been down to the bare bones before . |
| 30 | he said in all that , we got two he said the other one cut itself badly this morning on er a piece of glass obvious he said managed to come back to me you know being on a lead all his leg was cut so he sort of been down to the vet and had two stitches |