Example sentences of "been [adv] [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 | 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 | Schofield 's Europe , that 's his second tour , and he 's been all round the blinking Europe |
| 17 | Could they have been in with the real Communist underground ? ’ |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | I 'm trying to find out what sort of emotional state your daughter has been in over the past six months . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | We tended to think of Sandy as a liability because he had been so over the past years . |
| 24 | But it would be a superficial reading of club ideology to view the movement simply in terms of its ‘ rescue ’ work , for though this may have been so in the early days , it was never the sole aim which would imply a passivity hardly reconcilable with the ambitions of the founders of clubs , or with that of the missions and settlement houses . |
| 25 | The occupational structure of the village was very different from what it had been just before the Civil War when the parish register entries had briefly given men 's occupations ; between 1636 and 1639 Thurmaston 's register noted 8 labourers , 5 shepherds , 3 husbandmen , 2 innkeepers , 2 masons , 2 male servants , a carpenter , a miller , 1 curate , a weaver , a tailor , a shearman , a spinner and a mole catcher . |
| 26 | The marketing drive is their latest attempt to commercialise space and earn hard currency , Until now any deals have been largely through the Soviet Space Agency , Glvacosmos . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | I 've been away for the past week and had loads of messages to come back to . |
| 30 | ‘ I suppose you 're like all the rest — a city-kid who 's never been away from the busy streets before . ’ |