Example sentences of "[be] [adv prt] a [adj] [noun sg] " 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 | You see , these up here 's been up a long time . |
| 3 | ‘ I have n't seen either of them but I 've only been back a little while , ’ replied Melissa . |
| 4 | We 're all well and your mother has been out a good deal . |
| 5 | ‘ We 've been out a long while already . |
| 6 | They 've been out a long time colleagues , seventeen weeks . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | He is also much younger , 23 , than I thought — he seemed to have been around a long time . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Work by Dolores Piperno , at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama , shows that maize has indeed been around a long time . |
| 11 | And , of course , having been around a long time . |
| 12 | But as I 've already mentioned distributed database theory has been around a long time . |
| 13 | Some have been around a long time , others are of more recent origins . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Been around a long time . |
| 16 | Belmodes had been around a long time . |
| 17 | It 's been around a long time , as they say ? |
| 18 | But the Inter City Firm from West Ham were around a long time before the Service Crew . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Note — access to ship is down a sloping gang plank . |
| 21 | I have an idea that there 's this wonderful , amazing painting and everyone 'll love it and I did it , but it 's down a long tunnel somewhere . |
| 22 | Well , I was at the hospital a month ago and my blood pressure 's up a wee bit . |
| 23 | It 's up a wee lane so it is , you have to go . |
| 24 | What the Independent very badly needs is very solid professional newspaper management er to go along with the good franchise which it has created erm and a proper owner who can actually er do what all of us in newspapers have to do from times to times which is back a promising newspaper . |
| 25 | The tap-room of the tiny inn was down a deep step and he nearly sprawled on the tiled floor , coming abruptly into the cool darkness . |
| 26 | Oh it was down a tremendous amount |
| 27 | There was no question of her being able to haunt the environs of Mayfield Cottage , as it was down a dead end lane three miles from the nearest village . |