Example sentences of "[been] [adv] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My department 's equivalent of Inspector Morse has been on to the change-of-address problem . |
| 2 | I suspect , though , there can be no doubt about which side she would have been on in the public debate about fox-hunting prompted by last week 's Private Member 's Bill . |
| 3 | He 'd been right about the entire day : the fountains in Rome , the quiet beauty of the little villages they passed and the gentle sweep of the campagna . |
| 4 | Mrs Foster had told them Matthew was a bad-tempered boy , and she 'd certainly been right about the bad-tempered part , though this was no boy standing here looking at her with such menace . |
| 5 | I 'd been right about the biological cleaners . |
| 6 | And she 'd been right about the red roses . |
| 7 | Now she knew that Fernando was in contact with Maria Luisa and probably had been right from the off . |
| 8 | The recession has hit all industries and acting has been right in the thick of it . |
| 9 | He 's as sane as you or I. He 's a romantic at heart , a born adventurer ; a couple of hundred years ago and he 'd have been somewhere on the other side of the world building up the odd empire . ’ |
| 10 | IT HAS been downhill for the past 13 months at Bond Corporation ever since the Lonrho chief , Tiny Rowland , unleashed his first poisoned arrow . |
| 11 | ‘ We have been down to the bare bones before . |
| 12 | This popularity has not been all to the good , but having said that , the Rottweiler has now made friends who are concerned with his welfare . |
| 13 | She 'd been all over the Far East |
| 14 | Oh that 's been all over the fucking floor ! |
| 15 | It 's been all over the Pink Paper . |
| 16 | Further , Curtis had informed Grant that the word on the streets was that the recent outbreak of violence and killing had been all about a territorial dispute between rival Triad and Mafia gangs . |
| 17 | Schofield 's Europe , that 's his second tour , and he 's been all round the blinking Europe |
| 18 | It was n't enough ; it had n't been enough for a long time . |
| 19 | As one teacher said , ‘ I rather resent people coming in and criticising when they have n't been in on a regular basis ’ . |
| 20 | Could they have been in with the real Communist underground ? ’ |
| 21 | I did n't know Julia had n't been in for a long while . |
| 22 | The British emerged from their wars against Louis XIV in a calmer flame of mind than they had been in during the disturbed and excited seventeenth century . |
| 23 | I 'm trying to find out what sort of emotional state your daughter has been in over the past six months . |
| 24 | The great Da Ponte operas have been constantly in the international repertory since the early years of the century ( with the exception of Così fan tutte , which finally came back into its own in the 1950s ) ; while the lesser-known ones such as Idomeneo and La clemenza di Tito are now taking their place alongside their more familiar stable-mates . |
| 25 | And , as I say , we 've been together for a long time and the appointment , the changeover of the appointments |
| 26 | If they have been together for a whole day or days in conference or retreat then there is a dynamic already present . |
| 27 | They 've been together for the past six years — which she cites as one very good reason why she did n't fall for Craig McLachlan while playing his leading lady . |
| 28 | The man talked a lot about karma and said that they had obviously been together in a previous incarnation , but now their birthdates were not synchronized . |
| 29 | Clearly , vertical arrangements take a variety of forms , and they are an important feature of industrial society , indeed have been so since the Industrial Revolution . |
| 30 | We tended to think of Sandy as a liability because he had been so over the past years . |