Example sentences of "[verb] be [adv prt] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The idea has been around for ages , of course — people using two thin woollen sweaters rather than one thick . |
| 2 | The theory of risk compensation , which has been around for years , says that drivers adjust the amount of risks they take to keep their perceived level of risk constant . |
| 3 | Another group , the Ridgewood-Bushwick Senior Citizen Council , has been around for years without promising amenities like that ; one of Bushwick 's biggest employers , it has stuck to various welfare and housing services . |
| 4 | The journalist spends time on the story and then discovers that the subject has been around for years . |
| 5 | I found her bustling about with a feather duster looking as if she 'd been up for hours . |
| 6 | ‘ But I 'd been out with friends for the evening and got home late . |
| 7 | He said you 'd been out of sorts recently . ’ |
| 8 | Sometimes when we 'd been out to clubs Bernie would give me a lift home to my parents ' , right out in Greenford where we 'd moved just about the time I started keeping twilight hours . |
| 9 | He must have been around for years but I did n't know what his name was . |
| 10 | I think it must have been out of doors , because what I recall most is the way she seemed to dwindle on planes of blue . ’ |
| 11 | He loved being out of doors , often without clothes , and kept many animals . |
| 12 | McLean is not the first bouncer to have been tried for Murder and certainly not the first bouncer to have been up on charges of serious violence . |
| 13 | But if she came and found Tina up she could pretend to herself that Tina had been up for hours , and was a normal person and a proper mother . |
| 14 | He had been up for hours , out on the farm , before eating . |
| 15 | Our basement had been out of bounds since the work started , as a large sign on the stairs informed me . |
| 16 | When he was a child , the loft had been out of bounds . |
| 17 | He could be absolutely guaranteed to report to Fagg in the morning that a servant had been out of bounds , and this was no time to get the sack . |
| 18 | Noel Darcy , 23 , of Coventry , had been out with friends when he was attacked by a three or four youths . |
| 19 | And I saw a dear little shed that someone had made into a craft shop , and the woman said no one had been in for ages , and was n't she pleased to see me … ’ |
| 20 | Arriving , triumphant , in Ulm in the late afternoon , I had within half an hour found the worst hotel I had been in in years , with the modest staff and a parking ticket to boot . |
| 21 | ‘ It 's not that early — I 've been up for ages , and I 'm leaving in a few minutes . |
| 22 | Yeah , you 're gon na have one in a minute I 've been up for ages ! |
| 23 | You 've been up for weeks now , have n't you ? |
| 24 | they and er they 've been around for centuries of course but er erm there 's all sorts of myths about them some of which are half-truths and some which un-truths . |
| 25 | " You 've been out for hours . " |
| 26 | I 've been out with , I 've been out with loads |
| 27 | But it wo n't be that much because I 've been out of things for the last year and before that I had shut my eyes anyway . |
| 28 | ‘ Yes , I 've been out in fields hundreds o ’ times . |
| 29 | Oh , first time I 've been out in years on a Friday . |
| 30 | I prefer being out of doors , though , that 's my trouble , and writing takes up so much time . |