Example sentences of "been [adv prt] [prep] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If Devlin is as smart as I think he is , Jack , he 's been on to Frear from the start . |
| 2 | I have been on at Desmond about it , as a matter of fact , which I suppose is what she wanted . |
| 3 | Apparently he 's been down at Streatley since the weekend , but Joanne says he should be back today . |
| 4 | We 'd been certain that Frank had been kept with a Frenchman in the apartment we 'd been in from February to early May . |
| 5 | Er right I need somebody out there who has n't done this before erm let's see we 've been to Ripon , been to Thirsk , erm been over to Scarborough with Dr Rock , North Allerton no I do n't like North Allerton well I mean I love North Allerton no no I want to go south I want to go Tadcaster way have we anybody down there ? |
| 6 | ‘ You bastards have been over in France for the past three months , sitting in the sunshine and screwing all those French bints . ’ |
| 7 | Donal Lunny came down , and Gerry O'Beirne and Mary Custy and Eoin O'Neill , my sister Mary , and Adam Calyton , Mike Scott and Steve Wickham had been over in Spiddal at the time , working with John , so they came over for the crack . |
| 8 | ‘ Before , the tariffs did n't reflect our demand patterns , and the savings averaged have been up to 20% over what they would have been . ’ |
| 9 | cos I 'm going to , when the next time I see him , I ai n't been up to Humbersome for about three month though |
| 10 | Benny heard from Patsy that the Healys had been up to Dublin to look for a child to adopt but they had n't got one because Mr Healy had a weak chest . |
| 11 | I 've been up since quarter to five . |
| 12 | He 's only been up since quarter to three |
| 13 | Posh have been up for grabs since last year and chairman John Devaney , a property magnate and ex-Oxford director , will sell if the price is right . |
| 14 | Road pricing has been up for discussion for some time as a possible way of alleviating the high levels of traffic congestion in many city centres . |
| 15 | In practical terms they call for the government to help buy and protect the Mar Lodge Estate — 77 000 acre plot of land in the Cairngorms which has been up for sale since May . |
| 16 | They must have been up at Cambridge about the same time . |
| 17 | McLean is not the first bouncer to have been tried for Murder and certainly not the first bouncer to have been up on charges of serious violence . |
| 18 | It 's erm it 's been very interesting actually this last month because erm talk about your sons joining the enemy erm my second son who 's been up in Cheshire for well , twenty years I suppose he 's just been appointed senior art adviser for Devon . |
| 19 | The children have been back at school for only a month and already I am exhausted . |
| 20 | I should have been back at school in Nigeria . |
| 21 | If you go back to work before the end of 28 weeks and are then absent again , Statutory Sick Pay will be payable for each period of absence until your 28 weeks ' entitlement has been exhausted , provided you have not been back at work for more than 8 weeks . |
| 22 | Graham Townsend has been back at work for only 4 weeks . |
| 23 | When Douglas MacArthur returned to America , MacArthur had not been back to America since nineteen forty one this is ten years later , he 'd been running Japan in the meantime there was one of these huge ticker-tape parades in New York , he was the welcoming hero and President Truman was seen as the villain and some analysts argue that that decision , that single decision to sack MacArthur may well have cost Harry Truman the American presidency . |
| 24 | For many this was the first time they 'd been back to Parham in thirty six years . |
| 25 | He had not been back to Stowe since the day he left , almost seventeen years before . |
| 26 | He has n't been back to work since Christmas . |
| 27 | He had n't been back to Beirut in four years . |
| 28 | He returned for his father 's funeral , the first time he 'd been back to Zimbala in seventeen years , and Jamel was able to persuade him to stay on as the new editor of the country 's leading daily newspaper , La Voix . |
| 29 | It was also first time she had been back to Earth since being drafted into Spacefleet , escaping , and running for the stars in a clapped-out old trading ship owned by a clapped-out old trader . |
| 30 | I have been back with Crilly for a month now , or two . |