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 | The others went in the car and when I arrived on the bike a little later they 'd been down the 51 steps to the house and found it like the Marie Celeste , everything open , radio playing but no-one around . |
| 3 | Why should we be worried anyhow : the longer it take everyone to realise we 're back the more victories we will pile up . |
| 4 | Sales of replica kits are up a staggering 30pc this season as the designers hit the button in creative styles . |
| 5 | You see , these up here 's been up a long time . |
| 6 | From the look of the pile of branches , Travis had been back a few times , but he was absent still as she added her load to the mound . |
| 7 | ‘ I have n't seen either of them but I 've only been back a little while , ’ replied Melissa . |
| 8 | We 're all well and your mother has been out a good deal . |
| 9 | ‘ We 've been out a long while already . |
| 10 | They 've been out a long time colleagues , seventeen weeks . |
| 11 | ‘ It 's just that you 've been out a few times this morning . ’ |
| 12 | The thing is I 've been out a few times with my husband cos it 's his car . |
| 13 | This was the lake that we were going to spend our time on and although these lakes had n't been fished much we did have the benefit of some information given to us by Joe Taylor who had been out a few weeks prior to us . |
| 14 | I did n't know he 'd even been out the first time . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 ? " |
| 17 | So it means it 's not Ah so it means it 's got to be up the top end . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | This is perfectly true and he thought he 'd be back the same day and he was n't . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | He is also much younger , 23 , than I thought — he seemed to have been around a long time . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Work by Dolores Piperno , at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama , shows that maize has indeed been around a long time . |
| 24 | And , of course , having been around a long time . |
| 25 | But as I 've already mentioned distributed database theory has been around a long time . |
| 26 | Some have been around a long time , others are of more recent origins . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Been around a long time . |
| 29 | Belmodes had been around a long time . |
| 30 | It 's been around a long time , as they say ? |