Example sentences of "been [adv prt] [prep] [art] [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 | I said three flights that I 've been on in the last fortnight . |
| 4 | ‘ We have been down to the bare bones before . |
| 5 | then she said they 've been down at the this time of year |
| 6 | As one teacher said , ‘ I rather resent people coming in and criticising when they have n't been in on a regular basis ’ . |
| 7 | Could they have been in with the real Communist underground ? ’ |
| 8 | Because they 've been split between school , between young classes , my daughter 's been in with the eight year olds . |
| 9 | I did n't know Julia had n't been in for a long while . |
| 10 | He had only been in for a few nights after his first summer holiday in the five years I 'd owned him . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | When the cab came , Charles left in a surge of family effusiveness , and then , feeling like the hero of some of the terrible thriller films he 'd been in during the fifties , he told the driver to go to Steen 's home instead . |
| 13 | I 'm trying to find out what sort of emotional state your daughter has been in over the past six months . |
| 14 | ‘ No one knows what I 've been through in the last 12 months , ’ he said . |
| 15 | What we 've been through in the last few years has brought us a lot closer , and that 's part of the reason I 'm getting out of the rat race of international cricket … certainly for a few years , anyway . |
| 16 | Chairman John McBaine , passing sentence , labelled it a ‘ tragic case ’ , adding it was difficult to realise what suffering Lee had been through in the last few months . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | No , Lindsey told herself , as she showered and slipped into a warm towelling robe , it had actually been over for a long time . |
| 20 | The new Landrat of Gunzenhausen , a former Franconian bastion of National Socialism , wrote in his first monthly report after the end of the Third Reich , in August 1945 : ‘ Although the war has only been over for a few months , National Socialism is hardly ever spoken about , and when at all , only in a negative sense . |
| 21 | Well the , the er the Guilds I can speak now because I 've been up to a higher level , I 've been on the section and Birmingham is a very big area . |
| 22 | This is because all the variation margin payments due will have been up to the penultimate trading day . |
| 23 | Tabitha Jute , remember , had not yet been up to the other floors of Plenty . |
| 24 | Some students may need only to make good on areas where their performance has not been up to the Compact mark , others may need to negotiate the complete range of Compact goals at this level . |
| 25 | With regard to the flats I mean , one o erm the flats have been up since the late sixties and erm now they 're gon na be coming down . |
| 26 | ‘ I 've been up for the past three hours , ’ he said , looking me up and down rather coldly . |
| 27 | ‘ You must have been up with the famous Ord Gaunt ? ’ says the man whose name Howard did n't quite catch , and the dense Middle English blackletter in which the words are uttered exactly matches their resonant profundity . |
| 28 | By now , 1345 hours , the Colonel had been up with the leading Troops for more than because two hours , and as the short Arctic day was drawing to a close he ordered the withdrawal to begin . |
| 29 | The dahabeeyah had moored for the night and the three girls had been up on the top deck enjoying the evening breeze . |
| 30 | Daisy had been back for a long time ; she looked white and pinched . |