Example sentences of "[been] [adv prt] [prep] the [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 | ‘ We have been down to the bare bones before . |
| 4 | Could they have been in with the real Communist underground ? ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | I 'm trying to find out what sort of emotional state your daughter has been in over the past six months . |
| 7 | She knew that her presence and unwavering support was as important to the outcome as all the physical and psychological preparation that Lennox had been through in the past few months . |
| 8 | But mostly it was directed towards herself , and whatever it was in her that seemed to respond to some call given out by the least suitable of men ; despite what she 'd been through in the past couple of years she appeared to have learned precisely nothing . |
| 9 | This is because all the variation margin payments due will have been up to the penultimate trading day . |
| 10 | Tabitha Jute , remember , had not yet been up to the other floors of Plenty . |
| 11 | Some students may need only to make good on areas where their performance has not been up to the Compact mark , others may need to negotiate the complete range of Compact goals at this level . |
| 12 | With regard to the flats I mean , one o erm the flats have been up since the late sixties and erm now they 're gon na be coming down . |
| 13 | ‘ I 've been up for the past three hours , ’ he said , looking me up and down rather coldly . |
| 14 | ‘ You must have been up with the famous Ord Gaunt ? ’ says the man whose name Howard did n't quite catch , and the dense Middle English blackletter in which the words are uttered exactly matches their resonant profundity . |
| 15 | By now , 1345 hours , the Colonel had been up with the leading Troops for more than because two hours , and as the short Arctic day was drawing to a close he ordered the withdrawal to begin . |
| 16 | The dahabeeyah had moored for the night and the three girls had been up on the top deck enjoying the evening breeze . |
| 17 | Since I 've understood what management was about — I suppose that must have been back in the early 1950s — I 've had the philosophy that if I go into a job I must do it better than the bloke who 's been doing it before me . |
| 18 | I must 've been out at the wrong time . |
| 19 | Had it been out on the public streets he would have been arrested for a breach of the peace . |
| 20 | The aircraft had a peculiar motion , rather like a small boat in a heavy ocean swell , or rather what I imagined that must feel like , never having been out on the open sea in a small boat . |
| 21 | Brutally suppressed by bluecoats led by Rope Thrower , known to whites as Kit Carson , in 1863 , they had been out of the major Indian Wars because the Reservation lands given to them were so arid and dreary that even the white man did n't want to kick them off to somewhere else . |
| 22 | The man had n't been out of the top four since 1980 but he did n't have the luck to win a title — in ‘ 86 he lost the crown when his helmet strap came undone . |
| 23 | Tim , who has never been out of the top two in the competition in the last six years , then went on to clinch an exciting final by a narrow margin . |
| 24 | The next thing is that when the vote comes to the General Secretary for the union , anyone who 's been out of the particular industry for longer than eighteen months wo n't be able to vote . |
| 25 | For the last three days ten novice sailors have been out in the Western Approaches , sailing in winds of 40 knots or more through occasional sleet showers . |
| 26 | All being well , the skies will part once or twice during the festival — only the second time the event has been out in the open air . |
| 27 | While I 've been out in the fresh air enjoying myself she 's been stuck in this featureless boarding house , wondering if I 'll ever come back . |
| 28 | Although direct debits and cash dispenser machines had been around since the late 1960s , promotion campaigns made them farmore popular during the mid-1980s . |
| 29 | And I wo n't spare a minute 's thought for the fact that Piers has n't been around for the entire day , and lord only knows what he 's getting up to with Nicole . |
| 30 | Had the paparazzi been around in the early days of his marriage it 's doubtful Philip would have escaped criticism . |