Example sentences of "been [adv] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 's been on about the Brownies ever since she was seven , the age at which Granny says girls can join . ’ |
| 2 | This is quite often the cause of the ‘ 1701 — hard disk error ’ reported during Power On Self Test when the drive is cold which miraculously seems to cure itself when the system has been on for a while and the drive has warmed up ’ . |
| 3 | You 've not been on for a while have you ? |
| 4 | Good you 've not been on for a while either have you ? |
| 5 | Crime Squad officers had quickly been on to the address in Wiltshire Lane . |
| 6 | I 've been on to the P.L.A . |
| 7 | They had been on to the energy crisis , for example , years before it hit politics . |
| 8 | Anyway within about half an hour he came on and umm , been on to the record company sorting out a couple of records that we hope are the things you like , plus they were going to sort you out some tickets were n't they ? |
| 9 | The search for a proper definition has certainly been on in the House of Commons for several years . |
| 10 | But at its finest , it reaches heights of eloquence that can not have been most on the leaders of the next generation and it is music that ought to be heard in our halls . |
| 11 | Iceland has twenty-two volcanoes , but the ones which have been most in the news are located on the Westmann Islands , just off the south coast . |
| 12 | Can you see the sand on this path where the water 's been right over the top of it ? |
| 13 | He 'd been right about the shelter of the hedge . |
| 14 | I think we 'd have been right up the creek without the paddle ! |
| 15 | My sister-in-law answered , so quickly that she must have been right beside the telephone . |
| 16 | ‘ Never been right since the bronchitis last winter . |
| 17 | No , we had no accidents , the only one I had was er when I 'd been right to the top , with the other crane an and it was a long shop , and everyone had done with me during the morning , so I hoisted the crane up , pulled it in towards me and set myself going down the shop , put it in full speed . |
| 18 | I 've been right round the lot anyway so that 's jolly good . |
| 19 | When she 'd been right round the edges of the roof and gathered all the flowers into a bunch , she climbed down the ladder and began to walk along the back path out of the village . |
| 20 | I looked around for this other speaker , this eminent historian who had been right in the middle of the action , this acute analyst who assembled with such thoroughness the material I too had worked on , who had packed it into enlightening and readable volumes . |
| 21 | So far as terminals are concerned , the trend of the 1980s has been overwhelmingly towards the setting up of private distribution depots , so running down BR 's own facilities . |
| 22 | It has often been pointed out , and in my view with justice , that the school curriculum has in the past been overwhelmingly in the power of the universities . |
| 23 | ‘ I doubt it may have been somewhere in a circle of exiles , plucking that familiar of yours . ’ |
| 24 | What better way to prove that you have been somewhere in a consumer culture , than to buy something made locally whilst you are there . |
| 25 | And erm I think I was in the middle somewhere , I was n't er brilliant but I must have been somewhere in the middle I suppose . |
| 26 | The position of former Yugoslavia has always been somewhere in the middle between socialist East and capitalist West . |
| 27 | I had a feeling that if I had been somewhere in the midst of a mob at Madison Square Garden they would have sill got that metallic voice to talk to me . |
| 28 | Erm but the reality is that erm we would therefore need our budget to , in fact for the first half of this year , to have , well for the whole year , to have reflected the late delivery of the systems which would 've , if we 'd had that in the budget and we 'd been projecting the whole budget at say two point six , our budget figure would 've been somewhere in the region of another eighty to ninety thousand higher than it currently is for this first quarter . |
| 29 | Well this is erm as I say we , we , we could 've been somewhere in the region of two hundred and fifty thousand just on the I T issues alone . |
| 30 | The doorstep talk has been mostly of the economy ; Willesden County Court , has dealt with the second highest number of repossessions in the country . |