Example sentences of "been [adv] [prep] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | it 's been on for about the past month |
| 2 | Oh do n't it 's only been on for about er , the last half an hour it 's not it 's a cross a crucifix is got bigger on it . |
| 3 | Yes , we 've been the channels , been been right through to street lighting itself |
| 4 | Mm and old Bob down the road , Bob , he has n't been in for about the same sort of time this 'll be his fourth week wo n't it ? |
| 5 | You must have been in about in your mid twenties ? |
| 6 | He and my mother had been together for at least ten years when I was born , and we think now that I was her hostage to fortune , the factor that might persuade him to get a divorce and marry her . |
| 7 | The little that she 'd been able to piece together was that Pamela was a barrister , that the house did , as Lucy had suspected , belong to her , and that she and Josie had been together for at least five years and probably longer . |
| 8 | I 've been inside for over a decade , the fact that I could be out soon cares me . |
| 9 | In the classical trade cycle , which is agreed to have been normally of between nine and twelve years , the time proportional factor was of the same order . |
| 10 | But he 'd have been home by half-past ten . |
| 11 | So let's hear what jolly japes you and George have been up to since then . ’ |
| 12 | He kicked his holdall out of the way and flopped down on to the sofa , quite exhausted by whatever he had been up to since the day he left . |
| 13 | Over the first course I made the usual polite inquiries about Sally 's new job and asked her what she had been up to for the last half-dozen years or so . |
| 14 | We enclose a copy of this and we hope that you will find time to read it and see what CPRW has been up to during the past year . |
| 15 | ‘ She 'd have been more than concerned if she 'd known what he 'd been up to over the previous few weeks ! ’ said Harris drily . |
| 16 | It was not , at present , the eternal verities which were occupying her mind but the simple gnawing question of what Memet had been up to behind her back . |
| 17 | They refused to reveal what they had each been up to in the States . |
| 18 | What have printmakers been up to in what was recently called the USSR ? |
| 19 | So that was what he 'd been up to in Berlin , Loretta thought . |
| 20 | He had a fair idea of what Heydrich had been up to in Aalborg , and he hoped he might get confirmation this way . |
| 21 | He had only been out with on other girl in his life . |
| 22 | Woodland , 26 , watched by rugby league clubs Bradford Northern and Hull early in the season , has been out for over a month with a broken right hand . |
| 23 | Erm I 've been out as on the er line three this morning and I think there 's another little bit we ought to buy but we 'll discuss that as we 're going on eh ? |
| 24 | Aye , cos about six month ago there was a job come up in our office for like a trainee assistant manager type , well an assistant to an assistant manager kind of thing so I applied for it and another woman in the office applied for it cos she 's been here for like sixteen years or whatever . |
| 25 | What w what was it like when you you first w w went over there , I mean having been here in in and then all of sudden finding yourself in France ? |
| 26 | Brittle bone disease , or osteogenesis imperfecta , has been around for at least 4,000 years . |
| 27 | Criteria for membership of the association — consultancies must have at least 10 members of staff , have been around for at least three years and earn most of its income from environmental management — have understandably caused controversy . |
| 28 | ‘ Fuck ’ has been around for at least 500 years ( it was listed synonymously with ‘ sard ’ , ‘ swive ’ and ‘ occupy ’ in John Florio 's Worlde of Words in 1598 ) , but the supplement to the Oxford English Dictionary protests that its etymology is unknown . |
| 29 | The humble raisin has been around for at least 2,000 years , but it has n't always been very popular — particularly in the US where novelty is all when it comes to food . |
| 30 | The concept has been around for at least 30 years ; the American Hospital Supply Corporation was receiving electronic purchase orders from the hospitals it supplied in the early 1960s . |