Example sentences of "be [adv prt] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And me bloody petrol gauge has been on half way along Scunnie Road . |
| 2 | Course I have n't been down that way for a while . |
| 3 | ‘ Yes , it 's a pot I 've been down many times — not the easiest ; apart from a fifty-foot pitch we 'll have to haul him up , there 's a long sump we 'll have to bring the injured man back through which could be tricky if he 's unconscious or uncooperative . |
| 4 | ‘ Sir Robert , ’ Agrippa smoothly intervened , ‘ we have been down this path before . |
| 5 | That he had been down some time , and that there were a Nest of them at Alfoxden House who were protected by a Mr Poole a Tanner of this Town . ’ |
| 6 | He 's been down three times in his career , but always got up to win . |
| 7 | ‘ There 's a guy here who 's only been down three days . |
| 8 | Earnings are down 19 p.c. to 26.7p a share , but with the benefits of its expansion programme expected to show through , the dividend is being lifted 12 p.c. to 8.7p , with the payment of a 5.8p final . |
| 9 | Compared with the peak year of 1989 , volumes are down 35 p.c . |
| 10 | ‘ Well I 've got a couple of people off so we 're down this morning . |
| 11 | You got erm , you 're off next week are n't you ? |
| 12 | ‘ You 're lucky you 're up this end of the Cages with us because there 's … ’ and here he dropped his voice into a horrified whisper , ‘ … there 's a couple of vultures down at the other end . |
| 13 | I 'm sorry , but there 's no garden and we 're out all day . ’ |
| 14 | So we 're back full circle , hand knitted . |
| 15 | I am off next week to Holland by North Sea Ferries to check the route and start making detailed arrangements for this year 's run in October . |
| 16 | However , having been off last week , I have n't been able to do that , but I have made all the amendments and I was only going to talk us through those that needed everybody to know about them . |
| 17 | Dividends are up 10 p.c. to 5½p after a final of 3.8p payable on May 30 . |
| 18 | Despite the Labour party 's smears about what has been happening recently , manufacturing exports are up this year , notwithstanding the recession . |
| 19 | If we compare this stage in the economic cycle with the previous stage , we see that output is up a quarter , investment is up a third , productivity is up a half and exports are up three quarters . |
| 20 | Earnings are up 22 p.c. to 55p a share , but the dividend increase is being kept to 8 p.c. with a 14p final on June 8 , making 21p for the year . |
| 21 | Cider sales are up seven percent this year … and the makers say that despite a bumper crop , they need all the fruit they can get . |
| 22 | He had been up seventeen hours . |
| 23 | Lucy Wedderburn , the young medical registrar , has been up all night inserting drains and carefully drawing out bloodstained fluid , and she 's still on duty , witty and vivacious through the exhaustion . |
| 24 | But I 've been up all night . |
| 25 | I 've been up all night , thinking . |
| 26 | He had been up all night shadowing a team of poachers , until they had been manoeuvred into the welcoming arms of the constabulary . |
| 27 | It could only be about eight o'clock — her old-fashioned watch , unwound this morning , had stopped — but she felt as if she had been up all night , working to meet an insane deadline . |
| 28 | He 'd been up all night . |
| 29 | ‘ Have you been up all night ? ’ |
| 30 | It looked as if both men had been up all night . |