Example sentences of "[adv] be [adv prt] [prep] [art] " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | I mean there were only been about at the most ten who were suffering from burns . |
| 6 | ‘ But I 've only been down to the banister to pick up my coat . ’ |
| 7 | I 've only been back on the case , in cosmic terms , about two-and-a-half minutes . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ Lenny 's only been out of the jug five , maybe six weeks , ’ said Lloyd . |
| 10 | He had only been in for a few nights after his first summer holiday in the five years I 'd owned him . |
| 11 | ‘ After all , they have n't long been out of a very warm secure environment , have they ? ’ she continued . |
| 12 | I have personally been down to the suppliers several times and checked , and there is no doubt we will have delivery . |
| 13 | And it'a a short break today , so be back in a minute or you 'll miss it ! |
| 14 | ‘ Why did n't my father tell me that you were going to be here ? ’ she asked petulantly , thinking that at least he would only be around during the daytime , and she could avoid him completely without too much trouble . |
| 15 | This can only be down to the ‘ flocculating ’ of suspended particles , which an efficient filter system can then deal with . |
| 16 | Oh yes , er he could er he could still have an hour lunchtime , and er only be out of the office , say , an hour and three quarters . |
| 17 | No it was in er , in was in like a plaster of paris thing |
| 18 | Some students may need only to make good on areas where their performance has not been up to the Compact mark , others may need to negotiate the complete range of Compact goals at this level . |
| 19 | You 've not been on for a while have you ? |
| 20 | Good you 've not been on for a while either have you ? |
| 21 | It had not been out of the cupboard for some months and it really showed off until I treated it to a stiff drink ( surgical spirit ) and a nice massage with an oily rag . |
| 22 | Provided they 've not been out of the job all that long , I think , cos things change , do n't they ? |
| 23 | In the story above , David says that he 's the only boy in his class who 's not been out with a girl . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | It 's 0700 on the 30 June and my body has already been up for an hour and run four miles . |
| 27 | A porter had already been up to the suite with their luggage , she noted , as she observed that off the sitting-room — with French windows to a balcony between — were two other doors . |
| 28 | I 've already been out among the galaxies . ’ |
| 29 | And that 's er that 's a process that we 've just been through with the Harrogate and Knaresborough local plan . |
| 30 | I 've just been up to the Wembley exhibition of word processor , and one of the things I noticed there was the increasing number of processors and packages which I think you would describe as friendly or at least semi-friendly to , to help people . |