Example sentences of "[verb] been [adv prt] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In marriages in which only one of the partners has been down the aisle before , the number of divorces has jumped 67 per cent since 1980 . |
| 2 | ‘ Luci Hayter looked as if she 'd been up every night for a week . |
| 3 | We went there on Sunday , me and Bella , after we 'd been down the prom . ’ |
| 4 | I 'd been down the prom on my bike , and was riding up the posh part to our street . |
| 5 | I 'd been out the army about three days and I went to this dance with some army mates . |
| 6 | He must have been up a tree . |
| 7 | Peering through the cobwebs at the stable clock , Umberto realized he should have been up an hour ago . |
| 8 | Otherwise he 'd have been down the line after us like a shot . |
| 9 | Having been up a ladder , only I could see how easy it is , you could fall off a ladder as simply as anything . |
| 10 | Because it has n't been updated since 1973 some words which seems to have been around a while -palimony , Watergate and glasnost for instance have only just made it . |
| 11 | very pretty and er , it looks as if she ought to have been up the disco having a dance , any way |
| 12 | Most people agreed that Pike had been out the night before working on it with an industrial fan . |
| 13 | I suspect now that you know I mean I they might still to move given to one or two of my family members , but basically I could more openly say you know that in fact I suppose my view in Britain but not in Australia but my view in Britain is okay , the Royal Family could continue to exist they must A pay taxes B I do n't genuflect to any of them and C we 've got ta put them in perspective they 're in which is they 're a tourist attraction erm you know but I and I can make those comments which would be met by a lot of Britons with hostility , people who would totally disagree with me and say well they are the Royals and you know bow , bow , bow , but others would agree with me and that is something that has changed over the last three decades it really has , it 's changed during , during my absence in Australia , it is something you know that I came back to and I mean I kept , I 've been back about three or four weeks and there 's a pro I mean there 's some delightful radio programmes here comedy , political comedy shows and there was one show I listened to and I had been back a couple of weeks and it was about erm the Queen had a P R issue and she had to sort of do something about it , so she decided they 'd have a public execution of Edward and they described Edward was a cream puff and they the Queen and and er Andrew and everybody else was on the balcony at er Buck House and the crowds are cheering and the rolled and the the execution . |
| 14 | None of the five Moroccans had been down the Nfis and verbal information gleaned had been contradictory . |
| 15 | I was up going on the ski slope , and this is like , I 've been up a couple of times before , but it had been really cold and bi and I went at Easter , I was so like hot , but it 's still really good snow , and we went up there and I just could n't believe it , I just went dad , erm , oh , I do n't feel too good , and he just went , do n't be so stupid , and Nathan and I collapsed , I was at the front of this queue waiting for the ski lift and the whole queue just went |
| 16 | But erm it 's quite hard if you 've been up a lot at night and then you have to go and do the whole of the next day of work , but fortunately our rotas are n't too bad so we 're never on two nights in a row compared with the hospital which was quite a lot harder work . |
| 17 | ‘ So you 've been up the barrow , ’ Jos said out of the blue , as he lined up on the final double . |
| 18 | No , no there 's not I mean I 've been doing this for fifteen years , and quite simply is , if you like , I 've been up the ladder , the contacts that were I 've had were relatively junior fifteen years ago |
| 19 | I 've been up the bath . |
| 20 | after we 've been up the club |
| 21 | I said that 's fuck all right I 've been down the canteen . |
| 22 | And you 've been back every year since . |
| 23 | I 've been back a week . |
| 24 | Brian is , because we 've been out a couple of times and he does , I mean if we go out he 'll smoke then and then he just normally stops . |
| 25 | cos we 've been out a lot . |
| 26 | Well I du n no , I do n't know what we 'll do , it 's , there 's plenty of work to be done around , but I 've been out every night this week and I 'm in tonight thank goodness , I need to be in |
| 27 | I said I think that 's wonderful I said cos do you know how long I 've been out the union now , three months , well I reckon I 've saved thirty pounds , you 've got thirteen quid back |
| 28 | You can always tell when the clippers have been up the back of the neck . |
| 29 | No and what 's happened is , he 's been up the bank and er the thing has |
| 30 | He 's been down the railway station today ! |