Example sentences of "been [adv] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I suspected it was because I had never been properly in love with anyone before , and the sensation was too strange , too pleasant , and too personal for sharing . |
| 2 | He remarked however that there was little to choose between kitchen and living-room in respect of air , since the oven had been on since dawn . |
| 3 | Cos they 've been on about people |
| 4 | not been on for ages . |
| 5 | Well of course it 's not on , it has n't been on for weeks . |
| 6 | PET ‘ HOTEL HATES ’ ( THE FREQUENT ONES ) * narrow stairs and no lifts * low shower pressure * telephone kiosks built for left-handed midgets * only one plug , down on the floor under the bed and 5AMP * hairdryers on 1m fixed lead from the floor socket 3m away from wall mirror facing opposite direction * just two 40 watt lamps to read and work by * toilet rolls positioned for contortionists only * room service that brings each course separately throughout Dallas * radiators that have n't been on for years * radiators that wo n't go off * basins that take half an hour to empty after you 've cleaned your teeth and you want to shave * stoppers that hang under the cold water tap but do n't reach the drain * stoppers that have no chain so you wallow in the dirty water to find them * toilets where you can sit down or close the door but not both |
| 7 | I 've been on to Di this long time and have one like that , then you can and put down so you can have more room , you know , when you put it out . |
| 8 | ‘ I hear the English faculty has been on to Humphrey already , ’ he volunteered . |
| 9 | ‘ I 've just been on to Mallachy . |
| 10 | ‘ If Devlin is as smart as I think he is , Jack , he 's been on to Frear from the start . |
| 11 | Well I , I 've been on to world wom women 's committee and they assure me that they , the hospital says these tests should come through in a week , at the most three week 's , but you can phone them , so that certainly has improved , there does n't seem to be a back log . |
| 12 | Fraser said wearily , ‘ Have you been on to Dublin ? ’ |
| 13 | He 's just been on to Maureen , got a couple of orders bearings and an Anglia contact . |
| 14 | I have been on at Desmond about it , as a matter of fact , which I suppose is what she wanted . |
| 15 | But for that he would have got his sword out of its scabbard , and the fight they could not afford would have been on in earnest . |
| 16 | I do not believe it is disputed that this factor has been powerfully in operation recently . |
| 17 | He 's been right about Sebastian contacting her . |
| 18 | I 'd been right about Lloyd 's two-tone shoes though I had expected him to put socks on , and I was wrong about the hat — it was a white Panama . |
| 19 | He 'd been right about Bryce . |
| 20 | He 'd been right about Mrs Aitken having gone to some trouble . |
| 21 | How could she confess that they 'd been right about Ryan ? |
| 22 | It appeared that she 'd been right about Harry Martin 's being behind the attempts to intimidate her . |
| 23 | Hole have been right up front with the anger thanks to newly pregnant Mrs Cobain , Courtney Love . |
| 24 | She had been right of course . |
| 25 | We 've both been rather like hermits since … ’ |
| 26 | There were some irreverent proposals to perform the ultimate experiment and try injecting material extracted from Ungar 's brain into his critics — a human trial that I suspect Ungar himself might have been rather in favour of ! |
| 27 | The evidence discussed in this final section of the chapter has been uniformly in favour of the associative account of acquired equivalence and distinctiveness . |
| 28 | Despite differences of emphasis between different unions , union policies have been overwhelmingly in favour of technological change , while at the same time seeking increased involvement in the process of change to " maximise the benefits and minimise the costs " of such changes . |
| 29 | Until 1967 roughly half the Palestinian people had still been somewhere in Palestine . |
| 30 | A warrant for Zhivkov 's arrest had been issued on Jan. 18 , but he was believed to have been effectively under house arrest at one of his 30 former official residences since shortly after his resignation in November 1989 . |