Example sentences of "been [adv] [prep] [pos pn] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've been on at my husband to get a fitted carpet in this room because this lino drives me mad . |
| 2 | ‘ It is the greatest up after the lowest down — it is the biggest rollercoaster I have been on in my life . ’ |
| 3 | LADY DAVERS : Have you not been a-bed with my brother ? |
| 4 | She had once been a warm Methodist and so too , probably , had been most of her followers . |
| 5 | ‘ All the power we could ever have wanted , and it 's been right under my nose for years . ’ |
| 6 | The Court , however , ruled on March 19 , 1991 , that the Commission had been within in its powers in invoking Article 90 of the Treaty of Rome , which allowed it to override government objections in such cases [ see p. 36154 ] . |
| 7 | For one thing , the victuallers were never able to secure a majority on the council , and for another , a substantial number of the men in the victualling guilds had other interest — grocers and fishmongers were among the most important wool exporters at this period and one does not know how far individuals actually practised the trade of their own guild — so it may have been less in their interest than has sometimes been thought to keep food prices high ( 84 , pp.251–3 ; 104 , pp.77–80 ; 109 ) . |
| 8 | Lucy , who has 13 grandchildren and two great grandsons , added : ‘ I have already been down to my flat and have had a laugh with my friends . |
| 9 | He made it sound like we 've been our for a , you know , a romantic candle lit dinner and , you know , and we 'd just been down to his study for God 's sake ! |
| 10 | Hereford have been down on their luck . |
| 11 | Hunt had recently been down on his luck and one day , whilst trying to interest publishers in his drawings , had been walking the streets with a portfolio under his arm when a taxi drew up with Francis Bacon inside . |
| 12 | I had been down in my pantry working through the supplies sheets , when I had heard somewhere above my head the unmistakable sounds of motor cars pulling up in the courtyard . |
| 13 | The very same women who had been all for their daughters travelling abroad seemed suddenly to get bored with the idea . |
| 14 | As the Doctor gives the conventional lore of his day , a blend of ethics and medicine : we see that we are also those ‘ deaf pillows ’ , that the masking and unmasking has been all for our sake . |
| 15 | She felt humiliated — and because she 'd been so attracted to you during that first meeting , it was hard for her to realise the attraction must have been all on her side . |
| 16 | Perhaps it had been all in her imagination , fuelled by her own desires . |
| 17 | In the first place he had been in to his office and delayed their departure until after lunch . |
| 18 | She addressed Lizzie now , saying , ‘ Have you been in to your mother ? ’ |
| 19 | Jackie had had that all done and then I would have been in for my cup of tea . |
| 20 | It was typical of the places she had been in during her Psychopomp days . |
| 21 | It was the most terrible place she had ever been in in her life . |
| 22 | Mercury , or Mercurius as he was known to the alchemists , had been much on her mind of late . |
| 23 | But he seemed disposed on this occasion to discuss St Stephen 's , because its problems had lately been much on his mind . |
| 24 | Marriage has been much on our minds in the SHE office of late . |
| 25 | You have been much in my thoughts . |
| 26 | Slowly she began to come back to reality , and realise that she had been entirely at his mercy . |
| 27 | To her considerable surprise Joanna had been entirely on her side . |
| 28 | Anything else has been entirely in your imagination . ’ |
| 29 | He had been so throughout his school life and through college , managing to only just scrape through by handing in work started the night before it was due in . |
| 30 | The previous X-ray of my lungs had been just before my operation in March . |