Example sentences of "[be] [adv prt] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 At least I do n't mean that — not a good show for you , I know — but frankly when you 've been down a long time it is a good show to see someone from home and get all the news .
2 Sales of replica kits are up a staggering 30pc this season as the designers hit the button in creative styles .
3 You see , these up here 's been up a long time .
4 ‘ I have n't seen either of them but I 've only been back a little while , ’ replied Melissa .
5 We 're all well and your mother has been out a good deal .
6 ‘ We 've been out a long while already .
7 They 've been out a long time colleagues , seventeen weeks .
8 The widow 's suit looked brand-new and Wexford could n't help wondering if she had actually been out the previous afternoon to buy it .
9 They all seemed to be down the after ballast compartment so I called down something like , " Come on lads , " I 've got my seizure , what about yours ? "
10 So it means it 's not Ah so it means it 's got to be up the top end .
11 They know what to write and how to write , and if they do not they will be out the front door before they can pick up their hats and coats .
12 Because the common holly , Ilex aquifolium , has been around a long time and produced many ornamental varieties , you will find quite a few with fancy botanical names .
13 He is also much younger , 23 , than I thought — he seemed to have been around a long time .
14 Paul 's verdict : Bags have been around a long time now and Rohan can justifiably claim to have prompted other companies to come up with versions of their original .
15 Work by Dolores Piperno , at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama , shows that maize has indeed been around a long time .
16 And , of course , having been around a long time .
17 But as I 've already mentioned distributed database theory has been around a long time .
18 Some have been around a long time , others are of more recent origins .
19 but it cuts across , no there there comes a point where the of this world say oh am I allowed to do this , am I allowed to do that if you 've been here for more than three years right and it 's particularly prevalent in Scotland , oh are we allowed to do that , oh I did n't know and that 's old that is. old to a certain extent you know , she 's been around longer than has and been around but influenced by who 's been around a long time you see that 's where we get it , you see we do n't get the initiative coming in that area we get we get the oh Christ , bloody hell let's shove that one out the way that 's a national account .
20 Been around a long time .
21 Belmodes had been around a long time .
22 It 's been around a long time , as they say ?
23 Léonie and Thérèse were down the other end , putting on their boots .
24 Hewlett-Packard Co — shares up $5.125 on those sterling second quarter figures ( CI No 2,171 ) — may be doing very well with its Unix computers ( it is ) , but its out-and-out winner is of course the printer business : printer orders in the quarter were up a phenomenal 33% on the 1992 second quarter at $4,100m .
25 HP may be doing very well with its Unix computers ( it is ) , but its out-and-out winner is of course the printer business : printer orders in the quarter were up a phenomenal 33% on the 1992 second quarter at $4,100m .
26 When both of us were back the new arrangements would come into full working .
27 The Swedes were moved out , but were back the following day .
28 But the Inter City Firm from West Ham were around a long time before the Service Crew .
29 Some of them are rather like cave paintings are n't they and have they 've got this from my a sort of tedious association of the drawings and pictures and er Catherine 's it seems to be suggesting that animals were around , animals and other creatures were around a long time before human beings and that human beings are in some ways intruders therefore in their in their world .
30 Note — access to ship is down a sloping gang plank .
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