Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] been [adv] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As Rachel reached her flat and let herself in she found herself trying to remember whether David had been there that evening when her mother had sent for her . |
| 2 | Her fine words had been so much whistling in the dark . |
| 3 | David 's been away all week ? |
| 4 | Goodbye and good riddance to the propaganda parade Television coverage of the election campaign has been so much oil on shallow water . |
| 5 | Hello folks , my boss has been away this morning so I 've been busy scanning a few leeds picies and saving them as gif files . |
| 6 | Similarly it was in a private letter that a Cornish mine agent wrote in 1793 : The common tinners continue to be very refractory and insolent : many of them refuse to work , and have not gone underground for three weeks past — They have no cause for it for their wages have been rather too high lately than otherwise ; the consequence has been too much brandy drinking and other bad practices . |
| 7 | My few months of married life with Helen had been so much lotus eating . |
| 8 | Troops have been there some time and they 're familiar with locals on the ground . |
| 9 | erm The Health Service has been very much male-orientated . |
| 10 | The overtones of a heavy relationship had been everywhere that night at Ib 's Club . |
| 11 | ‘ Potter 's been here this morning ? ’ |
| 12 | The best players in the world have been here this week and it leaves me on a high note . ’ |
| 13 | Deer have been very much part of my life , and I hope these notes have been of interest and helpful in understanding why stalking takes place . |
| 14 | Kathy those documents have been there all week and you not taken the trouble to look at them but you will quip about the poll tax and its iniquities but you ca n't even read your own poll tax notice . |