Example sentences of "been [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 's been on about the Brownies ever since she was seven , the age at which Granny says girls can join . ’ |
| 2 | In March 1922 ‘ snobbish clerks ’ on the Moscow Kursk line , which had been on of the most revolutionary , in 1905 and 1917 , were refusing to attend meetings where common signalman and the like were to be found . |
| 3 | They had been on to the energy crisis , for example , years before it hit politics . |
| 4 | Crime Squad officers had quickly been on to the address in Wiltshire Lane . |
| 5 | I 've been on to the P.L.A . |
| 6 | My department 's equivalent of Inspector Morse has been on to the change-of-address problem . |
| 7 | Anyway within about half an hour he came on and umm , been on to the record company sorting out a couple of records that we hope are the things you like , plus they were going to sort you out some tickets were n't they ? |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The search for a proper definition has certainly been on in the House of Commons for several years . |
| 10 | I said three flights that I 've been on in the last fortnight . |
| 11 | But at its finest , it reaches heights of eloquence that can not have been most on the leaders of the next generation and it is music that ought to be heard in our halls . |
| 12 | Iceland has twenty-two volcanoes , but the ones which have been most in the news are located on the Westmann Islands , just off the south coast . |
| 13 | Can you see the sand on this path where the water 's been right over the top of it ? |
| 14 | He 'd been right about the shelter of the hedge . |
| 15 | I 'd been right about the biological cleaners . |
| 16 | And she 'd been right about the red roses . |
| 17 | Mrs Foster had told them Matthew was a bad-tempered boy , and she 'd certainly been right about the bad-tempered part , though this was no boy standing here looking at her with such menace . |
| 18 | He 'd been right about the entire day : the fountains in Rome , the quiet beauty of the little villages they passed and the gentle sweep of the campagna . |
| 19 | I think we 'd have been right up the creek without the paddle ! |
| 20 | My sister-in-law answered , so quickly that she must have been right beside the telephone . |
| 21 | ‘ Never been right since the bronchitis last winter . |
| 22 | No , we had no accidents , the only one I had was er when I 'd been right to the top , with the other crane an and it was a long shop , and everyone had done with me during the morning , so I hoisted the crane up , pulled it in towards me and set myself going down the shop , put it in full speed . |
| 23 | Now she knew that Fernando was in contact with Maria Luisa and probably had been right from the off . |
| 24 | When she 'd been right round the edges of the roof and gathered all the flowers into a bunch , she climbed down the ladder and began to walk along the back path out of the village . |
| 25 | I 've been right round the lot anyway so that 's jolly good . |
| 26 | I looked around for this other speaker , this eminent historian who had been right in the middle of the action , this acute analyst who assembled with such thoroughness the material I too had worked on , who had packed it into enlightening and readable volumes . |
| 27 | The recession has hit all industries and acting has been right in the thick of it . |
| 28 | In Devon , in particular , both private and public sector new housing has been predominantly in the larger settlements , especially those within commuting distance of the main urban centres ( Cloke 1979 ) . |
| 29 | So far as terminals are concerned , the trend of the 1980s has been overwhelmingly towards the setting up of private distribution depots , so running down BR 's own facilities . |
| 30 | It has often been pointed out , and in my view with justice , that the school curriculum has in the past been overwhelmingly in the power of the universities . |