Example sentences of "[noun] have [adv] been [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Fabians had indeed been up to Tafahi , about a month before . |
| 2 | The boy had never been out in society before . |
| 3 | When he thought back to those years in the Army , and the year immediately afterwards , it seemed to Jackson that he and Ross had scarcely been out of one another 's company . |
| 4 | Auntie Mavis has only been out for five to ten minutes twice cos of her knee . |
| 5 | The new Landrat of Gunzenhausen , a former Franconian bastion of National Socialism , wrote in his first monthly report after the end of the Third Reich , in August 1945 : ‘ Although the war has only been over for a few months , National Socialism is hardly ever spoken about , and when at all , only in a negative sense . |
| 6 | It 's 0700 on the 30 June and my body has already been up for an hour and run four miles . |
| 7 | ‘ Lenny 's only been out of the jug five , maybe six weeks , ’ said Lloyd . |
| 8 | It was the first time I had ever seen a live tennis match — Wimbledon has always been out of the question financially , and the Midland Bank tournament offered me the chance to see live international tennis at a reasonable price . |
| 9 | Crime Squad officers had quickly been on to the address in Wiltshire Lane . |
| 10 | The Cobra had only been around since 1962 , but the Ace , on which it was based , dated back to 1953 , when it had been launched at Earls Court . |
| 11 | Knighton has hardly been out of the news since announcing his intention to buy United on 18 August , the day before the Football League season began . |
| 12 | The search for a proper definition has certainly been on in the House of Commons for several years . |
| 13 | Many of the villagers had never been out of the dale . |
| 14 | We leave , saddened by the plight and determined to come for longer the next time , to stay through a winter and spring , to find out what that old woman had really been up to holding that white sheet up to the Northern Lights . |
| 15 | The wearing of beards had long been out of fashion at Rome : as we have seen , the contenders for power at the death of the Republic imitated the clean-shaven kings of the Hellenistic world . |
| 16 | ‘ Look dear , Joe 's just been up with a tray of sumptuous goodies . |
| 17 | Mary Gates had never been out in the company of a man since the death of his Father . |
| 18 | Somerset police had indeed called , and the BA had indeed been up to no good . |
| 19 | Hunt had recently been down on his luck and one day , whilst trying to interest publishers in his drawings , had been walking the streets with a portfolio under his arm when a taxi drew up with Francis Bacon inside . |
| 20 | Despite the fact that homoeopathy has now been around for close on two hundred years , very little research has been carried out either to attempt to understand how it works , or to prove that it does work . |
| 21 | Another argument is that advertising has only been around for a while , so how can that be the reason for all our hang-ups , but that 's not true either . |
| 22 | The men had only been out of jail for about two years after being sentenced to 10 years for firearms offences and plotting to kidnap an Eton schoolboy and hold him to ransom , but the judge said he accepted the men had both paid the price for these crimes and sentenced them to 4 years in prison . |
| 23 | A porter had already been up to the suite with their luggage , she noted , as she observed that off the sitting-room — with French windows to a balcony between — were two other doors . |
| 24 | The Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra 's reputation has long been out of all proportion to its representation on record , at least in the West . |
| 25 | By now they were in Piccadilly Circus , anonymous among the largest crowd Sally-Anne had ever been in without some sort of companion to protect her , or to look out for her . |
| 26 | Quality systems have naturally been around within Ciba Geigy for a long time and all aspects of manufacturing on the site have been registered to ISO 9001 since 1987 . |
| 27 | Since 1969 , Ron and Reggie Kray have only been out of prison once . |
| 28 | Louise had hardly been out of his thoughts for a moment during the past six weeks while the relieving force , under the command of General Sinclair , had been advancing circumspectly over the plains . |