Example sentences of "been [adv prt] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ’ . |
| 2 | You 've not been on for a while have you ? |
| 3 | Good you 've not been on for a while either have you ? |
| 4 | Crime Squad officers had quickly been on to the address in Wiltshire Lane . |
| 5 | They had been on to the energy crisis , for example , years before it hit politics . |
| 6 | 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 ? |
| 7 | The search for a proper definition has certainly been on in the House of Commons for several years . |
| 8 | But our improvement this season has been down to a team effort , not to any particular individual . |
| 9 | It would have been down to the Academy to appoint the next ruler of the Seven Planets . |
| 10 | I 've just been down to the grubber . |
| 11 | That must have been down to the policeman . |
| 12 | he said in all that , we got two he said the other one cut itself badly this morning on er a piece of glass obvious he said managed to come back to me you know being on a lead all his leg was cut so he sort of been down to the vet and had two stitches |
| 13 | ‘ I have n't been down to the sea yet . |
| 14 | Adam said , ‘ I have n't been down to the cottage in an age . |
| 15 | ‘ But I 've only been down to the banister to pick up my coat . ’ |
| 16 | Betty , who clearly had not washed , since she had not been down to the stream and there was no water in the cottage , padded about in her dressing-gown and slippers offering to slice the bread for breakfast . |
| 17 | He 'd been down to the coke-cellar beneath the church , where the stage was stored , and with the assistance of Mr Peniket he 'd tried the curtains for size . |
| 18 | ‘ I 've just been down to the market . |
| 19 | She had been down to the lochside in the early morning with a basket of crusts and potato peelings for the water birds and had left a row of neat black boot prints in the snow . |
| 20 | During the last week of September that year , Cornwall had been enjoying an Indian summer and Edna and Celia had been down to the Cove every day . |
| 21 | Melanie had not been down to the work-room since her very first morning ; she tried not to look at the partially assembled puppets , hanged and dismembered , on the walls . |
| 22 | Sharpe has been down with a calf strain this week but he trained yesterday and does not look in danger . |
| 23 | ‘ I 've been down under the sea , you know ! |
| 24 | ‘ She might have been down at the jetty a couple of hours ago . |
| 25 | Maggie immediately thought of the lack of seagulls she 'd noticed when she 'd been down at the sea-front . |
| 26 | I would rather have been down at the villa making figgy hedgehogs for Tony but a promise is a promise . |
| 27 | His wife in her innocence told us he had been down at the steamer when we landed and had slipped out of sight , and next morning he had left at six o'clock to go and visit a small island North of Jura where he had never been known to go before . " |
| 28 | In the middle ages Margaret had had a wonderful time ; women had understood then that it was not to other mothers that you turn in childbirth , it is to those women who have lived it , who have been down between the dragon 's teeth , have travelled the dragons ' pathways and have lurked in the dark and boiling belly of pain , have been chewed and digested and emerged . |
| 29 | The stout landlord , who had been down in the cellar fetching a fresh keg of ale , lowered it to the floor . |
| 30 | A legend in the power boat world , Shurdington signwriter , John has been in at the top of his sport for over 30 years . |