Example sentences of "been [indef pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | How often have you known it for the butler who is on everyone 's lips one day as the greatest of his generation to be proved demonstrably within a few years to have been nothing of the sort ? |
| 2 | Her mother told her that there had been nothing on the wireless all day except music and news bulletins . |
| 3 | For one thing , there has been nothing in the festival from the really great names , save for Satyajit Ray , whose transposition of An Enemy Of The People seems to me , though hardly on the top level of his work , to be both eloquent and deeply felt . |
| 4 | There 's been nothing in the media about the hair either , but that piece of unpleasantness seems to be generally known . |
| 5 | Lugh was certain that there had been nothing in the least bit noticeable about their journey . |
| 6 | Sales , however , have been disappointing , and there 's been nothing like the same kind of interest the earlier books had . |
| 7 | Who the other call was to Jihan has never revealed , but it is certain that it must have been someone of the highest importance , and that her purpose was to obtain from the most authoritative source possible some outside indication of what was happening in Egypt . |
| 8 | When she had thrown the gravel , there had been someone in the pill-box directly ahead of her . |
| 9 | Some people swore it must have been someone in the Martin family . |
| 10 | ‘ Of course , ’ Athelstan continued , ‘ the assassin may have been someone in the Tower who knew where Sir Ralph lay , and seized the opportunity of the moat freezing over to gain access to the footholds on the North Bastion . |
| 11 | It must have been someone from the village , Rose said : who else would be walking in the woods at that hour ? |
| 12 | Then when we come back to stand down , we came back to Tolbertstead well we was in Tolbertstead so the Tolbertstead canteen staff got some hot prepared some hot drinks and so when we come back we was able to have a hot drink and erm it was the duty of er the sergeants to see that the rifles were empty free , no am no , there was n't er there was n't one up the spout , one bullet left in the , in the rifle and er Sergeant , the barber , was checking our rifles anyway he , he was check , check , check , check and er alright he mischecked one and pulled the trigger and there was a bullet through the roof in the , in the he was holding it up or otherwise there 'd have been somebody on the floor but er he , he missed this one bullet through the canteen roof . |
| 13 | It must have been somebody from the village . |
| 14 | If I am unfortunate enough to experience the untimely death of several people I am attached to so that it forms something of a pattern , then I am likely to experience considerable difficulty with my bereavements : there has been none of the unconscious preparation for the death of someone close that goes on in our awareness of incidents that are likely to occur . |
| 15 | How far those Saxons who disagreed were able to flee into wilder parts of the Weald may be doubted ; there seems to have been none of the resistance in wild areas which the Normans met when Hereward fled to the Isle of Ely and Yorkshiremen fought back . |
| 16 | There have been none of the special postage stamps or government statements which usually mark bicentenaries of famous writers . |
| 17 | There have been none of the head-on clashes that occurred in 1986 , when President Mitterrand had as his prime minister the neo-Gaullist Jacques Chirac . |
| 18 | This change has not necessarily been one for the better . |
| 19 | My question is to , that er , police officer or to the Chief Constable , or to anybody who can answer , how much is it gon na cost that , for that paper to be produced , and would it not be better spent in putting a police officer in Stratton St Margaret , where there has n't been one on the beat for the last six months , to help us reduce the number of er , of crimes committed in Stratton . |
| 20 | Little is known of eruptions there , but there may have been one in the last decade , since sets of aerial photographs of the island taken many years apart show some slight changes . |
| 21 | A good example are the ‘ golf ’ tickets from Craven Arms to Plowden , where upon making enquiries I was informed that there was no golf course , but there had been one in the years before World War One . |
| 22 | Many observers noticed the force and weight of his presence ; it might be called dedication , or ambition , or it might have been something below the level of consciousness which propelled him forward . |
| 23 | There had always been something of the fairground barker about Mr Broadhurst and during this period he enhanced it . |
| 24 | ‘ I just felt that though we were 14 when we last met there must have been something of the child left in our features to make us recognize each other after half a century . ’ |
| 25 | Small as it was , the incident disturbed her , perhaps because there had been something about the man that had appealed to her . |
| 26 | She wished that Fernando had in fact made fiery , passionate and glorious love to her on that blanket , because at least her body would have been sated and that would have been something at the very least . |
| 27 | There must have been something in the Florida air in addition to vitamin C. One of the passes from Vinny Testaverde , the Tampa Bay quarterback , went through the hands of his intended receiver right in front of the goal-line , and into the hands of a team-mate , Mark Carrier , for a touchdown . |
| 28 | There 'd been something in the local papers about me and my work , and these girls , aged about eight to eleven years old , sent me a book of poems they 'd written , printed and sold to raise money . |
| 29 | There had been something in the Wingco 's demeanour that Benson did not like much , however , a quietness , an air of brooding . |
| 30 | Same age as Francesca , and had attended the same good North London all-girls ' grammar school , for entry to which aspiring parents would have been prepared to pay blood-money had there been anyone in the austere intellectual governing body and teaching staff who would have taken it . |