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 . |