Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] been [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At 26 he has already been at eight clubs , and if Howard Wilkinson could n't stop his itchy feet people will ask , what chance have we got ? |
| 2 | There are currently 17 expeditions on Everest — the most there has ever been at one time . |
| 3 | Primarily a religious holiday , it has also been for hundreds of years a secular holiday , often with a travelling showmen 's fair visiting the village at the time . |
| 4 | Young ( 1988 ) has , for example , noted that for local and national crime surveys , the response rate ( the proportion of individuals chosen for inclusion in a survey who actually complete a questionnaire ) has never been above 80 per cent . |
| 5 | Also Parker confesses that he has never been to one of Elvis ' recording sessions : ‘ That 's his job — mine 's getting him as much money as I can . ’ |
| 6 | He 'd only been in eighteen months , ’ said the Bishop , in the manner of a man who is used to a longer temporal perspective . |
| 7 | She could n't remember having actually been in one and anyway , they rarely came Past Mrs Parvis 's lodgings . |
| 8 | ‘ We 've only been to two movies in two-and-a-half years , ’ he says . |
| 9 | They say that hunting 's for er er human pleasure , er , I mean personally I 've only been to one hunt , and I do n't see what all the the , the , the , the trouble 's about because the huntsman is only a spectator , it 's the hounds that are hunting the fox and it is to keep the foxes down . |
| 10 | If you 've ever been to one of their live performances , you will find the band , yourself and the whole of the crowd jumping around like it was a punk reunion . |
| 11 | Martin was for some years tutor to the MacLeods of Skye , and had also been at one time a scholar at Leiden University in the Netherlands . |
| 12 | What if it had originally been on one of the other cakes ? |
| 13 | I 've never been in one but I 've read so much about how to do it I 'm sure I could manage it . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ You know , ’ said he , between great chewings , ‘ I 've never been in one of these places before . |
| 15 | Closer to home , he 's also been to eight European cities since the election . |
| 16 | Well he 's also been on hundreds of committees because they were sort of one of the early ones to be done |