Example sentences of "[adv] be [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since their lavish £200,000 wedding 14 months ago , they have rarely been out of the headlines — but for all the wrong reasons . |
| 2 | The new Landrat of Gunzenhausen , a former Franconian bastion of National Socialism , wrote in his first monthly report after the end of the Third Reich , in August 1945 : ‘ Although the war has only been over for a few months , National Socialism is hardly ever spoken about , and when at all , only in a negative sense . |
| 3 | Another argument is that advertising has only been around for a while , so how can that be the reason for all our hang-ups , but that 's not true either . |
| 4 | How do you know this is love , your prose side whispers like a sceptical lawyer , it 's only been around for a few weeks , a few months . |
| 5 | I mean there were only been about at the most ten who were suffering from burns . |
| 6 | ‘ But I 've only been down to the banister to pick up my coat . ’ |
| 7 | I 've only been back on the case , in cosmic terms , about two-and-a-half minutes . |
| 8 | He had only been back for a few hours when company orders were posted showing that Colonel Hamilton wished to see Lance-Corporal Trumper at eleven hundred hours the following morning . |
| 9 | ‘ Lenny 's only been out of the jug five , maybe six weeks , ’ said Lloyd . |
| 10 | He had only been in for a few nights after his first summer holiday in the five years I 'd owned him . |
| 11 | ‘ After all , they have n't long been out of a very warm secure environment , have they ? ’ she continued . |
| 12 | I have personally been down to the suppliers several times and checked , and there is no doubt we will have delivery . |
| 13 | And it'a a short break today , so be back in a minute or you 'll miss it ! |
| 14 | ‘ Why did n't my father tell me that you were going to be here ? ’ she asked petulantly , thinking that at least he would only be around during the daytime , and she could avoid him completely without too much trouble . |
| 15 | This can only be down to the ‘ flocculating ’ of suspended particles , which an efficient filter system can then deal with . |
| 16 | Oh yes , er he could er he could still have an hour lunchtime , and er only be out of the office , say , an hour and three quarters . |
| 17 | It 's 0700 on the 30 June and my body has already been up for an hour and run four miles . |
| 18 | A porter had already been up to the suite with their luggage , she noted , as she observed that off the sitting-room — with French windows to a balcony between — were two other doors . |
| 19 | I 've already been out among the galaxies . ’ |
| 20 | And that 's er that 's a process that we 've just been through with the Harrogate and Knaresborough local plan . |
| 21 | I 've just been up to the Wembley exhibition of word processor , and one of the things I noticed there was the increasing number of processors and packages which I think you would describe as friendly or at least semi-friendly to , to help people . |
| 22 | ‘ Look dear , Joe 's just been up with a tray of sumptuous goodies . |
| 23 | It 's a new one that 's only just been around for the last fifty years . |
| 24 | Grateful though he was — and there are few examples of anyone more grateful and generous than he was to those who had in any way helped him or even just been around in the bad times — he was not going to be craven or knuckle down like a goody-two-shoes . |
| 25 | ‘ I 've just been down to the market . |
| 26 | I 've just been down to the grubber . |
| 27 | We were there on 3rd May 1945 when Rangoon was liberated , and that evening I gave a short broadcast over All-India Radio , telling our friends in India and Burma that we should shortly be back in the liberated city to help with the tremendous task of reconstruction . |
| 28 | The smaller town of Souvala , and poor Perdika , have not yet got that far ; but in general Aegina will fairly soon be up to the standards those fussy Germans and English expect . |
| 29 | The Highlands and Islands may soon be off on a spending spree to boost its amenities and infrastructure with European millions . |
| 30 | Having designed the Commodore International Ltd PET Personal Electronic Transactor , and moved on to found Sirius Inc , later Victor Technologies Inc until he was caught out when the world discovered that ‘ runs MS-DOS ’ did n't mean ‘ IBM-compatible ’ , Chuck Peddle hopes that he 'll soon be back with a bang . |