Example sentences of "been [adv prt] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The fuzz would have been on to that straight away . |
| 2 | I 've been on to this morning , asked me to and they have got thirty palettes there at the moment . |
| 3 | If it had been down to that one offence , Daine would be in court for ever , kept on life support until the end of the trial , or until the judge ruled that enough medical alterations had been made to render the accused legally another entity entirely . |
| 4 | On these traffic lights been down to that football match actually cos it 's absolutely nose to tail right the way there right the way down here |
| 5 | looks nice , no burnt or anything , and I says ee it 's lovely is it , I said alright , would been down for this morning like and I says ooh come on then do n't bother when you get home starting making anything I says just say , let's ask for steak pies , so I says er can we have er two steak and kidney pies please ? , she said I 'm sorry we do n't , there is n't any kidney an all , I 'm glad there is n't I did n't want , well I 'd of eaten 'em like but I 'd rather have them without |
| 6 | What about livestock would they have been in at that time of year ? |
| 7 | All she could think of was that they 'd all been in on this — a kind of family Mafia , working behind the scenes to make sure that Lucenzo ended up with everything , his empire untouched . |
| 8 | ‘ After all , he is the champion and he has been in with some of the best fighters of the day . |
| 9 | He will fight Jose Ribalta , a 28-year-old Cuban American , who has been in with some of the best heavyweights . |
| 10 | Hongkong Bank is inheriting a bank in better shape than it has been in for more than a decade . |
| 11 | In spite of her unwillingness to join the outing , and the remote mood she had been in for most of the day , in the last few minutes she had begun to feel herself a real person . |
| 12 | Have you been in for this Guess the Scores , have you won anything before ? |
| 13 | By now they were in Piccadilly Circus , anonymous among the largest crowd Sally-Anne had ever been in without some sort of companion to protect her , or to look out for her . |
| 14 | Ruth stared down at it and wondered why she had bought it and thought it was probably because it contrasted so sharply with what she had been through on this trip . |
| 15 | Something to do with what he 'd been through in some war . |
| 16 | His section has been over for some time . ’ |
| 17 | The lights have been off for several months , bringing a protest from the RAFA . |
| 18 | Anyway , what on earth have you been up to all this time ? ’ |
| 19 | ‘ D' you mind tellin' me what you 've been up to all day ? ’ demanded Dolly . |
| 20 | Andrew Hall 's back in the limelight now that the BBC is showing re-runs of Butterflies — but where has he been hiding and what has he been up to all this time ? |
| 21 | In the evenings , after Granpa had come home for supper and the old man had gone off to the pub , I soon became bored just sitting around listening to what my sisters had been up to all day ; so I joined the Whitechapel Boys ' Club . |
| 22 | ‘ What 's 'e been up to this time ? ’ asked the put-upon wife . |
| 23 | ‘ Has he been up to this all night ? ’ |
| 24 | Is er has what 's his name , the angry man been up to any antics lately ? |
| 25 | But the little tousle-headed , dirty , tanned , bold toddler that was me might well have been up to some sort of mischief involving the beast . |
| 26 | I 've been up since half past seven . |
| 27 | When you have been up for half an hour on a normal working day , how do you feel ? |
| 28 | Official signs for a cycle path connecting Baird Road , Ratho Station , to the minor road from Ratho to Newbridge have been up for some time . |
| 29 | The building was not built in ninety one , whether there 's any relevance or not , where they 're trying to prove that the building has been up for some time , they 'd say , it 's not , that building was put up this year . |
| 30 | So we 've been up for some time cos the arms are wet where he 'd been sucking it ! |