Example sentences of "[adv] [been] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the debate Lord Holland recognised the dread among the upper classes that the lower orders might be seduced by subversive principles , " particularly afloat at this moment " , but also considered that some masters were taking advantage of this moment to " enforce their views and render their workmen more dependent than they had hitherto been and than in all fairness and equity they ought to be " . |
| 2 | Well there 's only been and when we will get |
| 3 | Then suddenly everyone was no longer concerned for her as she lay there , but for another woman ; a tiny fierce woman whose fault it had all not been and Lisa 's gigantic , striding power melted into softness , soppy for the baby . |
| 4 | My father had recruited three young gypsies who had not been and could not be called up for the Navy . |
| 5 | In September 1861 Valuev wrote a long paper on the progress of emancipation which concluded by acknowledging that " Sometimes the need arises to legitimize things which have not been and could not have been envisaged by a law " . |
| 6 | ‘ The health of people like her has not been and is not safe in Tory hands , ’ he said . |
| 7 | The poachers had already been and got away with their spoils ; or when they heard the shots , they made off . |
| 8 | He looked slightly past them as if they had already been and gone . |
| 9 | Although , having once decided under section 40(1) that an award was warranted , I would be required by section 41(1) to take account of any benefit the employer ‘ might reasonably be expected to derive ’ , section 40(1) requires me to decide whether the patent is of outstanding benefit , and I conclude that this entails my satisfying myself that such benefit has already been and is being achieved . |
| 10 | Several Q.T 's have already been and have enjoyed ‘ back to the drawing board ’ . |
| 11 | The protestors turned up in force to confront the man , but he 'd already been and gone . |
| 12 | yeah I 've just been and put |
| 13 | Yeah , yeah but you 've just been and then for us now , cos we 're the parents it 's a bag of shit in it Christmas ? |
| 14 | On the eve of today 's London marathon , despite reassurances from cardiac experts that exercise has always been and still is beneficial to health , there are questions about heart disease among sportsmen and women that prompt further research . |
| 15 | It has always been and shall be for evermore . |
| 16 | Those who were called upon to defend non-payment of what they owed beyond the promised date were , as they had always been and were to go on being , in the minority . |
| 17 | I have always been and am a royalist . |
| 18 | Still , it 's a bold attempt to put his art where his mouth has always been and you ca n't help willing him to succeed . |
| 19 | Strategically , what happens there has always been and is bound to be of vital interest to Britain . |
| 20 | It 's all out there on the street and it 's the closet I 've ever been and probably the nearest I will ever be to actually feeling part of the world . |
| 21 | and er , I said what you mean Charlie , cor all dog 's mess all over the place , I said it is n't , I , I said have you ever been and he said no I , I said well there you are , I said if you have n't been I said you do n't know what it 's like , I said you 're talking about some old girl that lives on , in Little Sandhurst , who 's got a thing about dogs and I said kicking up a lot of fuss about it , but I said the women 's a dam liar |
| 22 | erm I do n't think our culture is the worst that 's ever been and I think there 's a tendency sometimes to try to sort of overstate that . |
| 23 | The Colonel explained that he was still waiting for orders , and the General swore like the trooper he had once been and said that a French officer did not need orders when the enemy was in plain sight . |
| 24 | The school he 'd wanted me to go to so that I could be as clever as he had once been and go to Oxford the way he 'd done and not waste it as he had been foolish enough to do . |
| 25 | And worse still the binman had also been and gone . |
| 26 | I do n't make any apologies for that , and maybe it is going over the old ground , but unless we do it , unless we try to do it , if we 've done it the way before been and it has n't produced what we , what we want , then surely it 's not for us to sit back and say , ‘ Well , it 's been through that and it has n't worked ’ , surely we ought to try again , and that 's what I hope to be doing , sort of value your support and see you . |
| 27 | My old inspector who 's now been and gone , came from Newark , and he said that there was far more trouble within the public houses in Newark , er than ever there was here and he came here , imagining the problem to be a lot worse . |
| 28 | For a time the eagles were speechless with surprise at what had happened and could only stare through the Cages to Woil who had now taken stance again on the branch where he had originally been and was grooming himself as if nothing had happened . |
| 29 | The idea that mental events are physical , however , is not the idea , whether true or false , that mental events are in fact identical with the particular kind of physical events with which they have often been and are still identified , which is to say neural events . |
| 30 | It had n't been and was n't far away , just out of sight behind a group of saplings . |