Example sentences of "[been] [adv] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I suspected it was because I had never been properly in love with anyone before , and the sensation was too strange , too pleasant , and too personal for sharing . |
| 2 | I do not believe it is disputed that this factor has been powerfully in operation recently . |
| 3 | He 's been right about Sebastian contacting her . |
| 4 | I 'd been right about Lloyd 's two-tone shoes though I had expected him to put socks on , and I was wrong about the hat — it was a white Panama . |
| 5 | He 'd been right about Bryce . |
| 6 | He 'd been right about Mrs Aitken having gone to some trouble . |
| 7 | How could she confess that they 'd been right about Ryan ? |
| 8 | It appeared that she 'd been right about Harry Martin 's being behind the attempts to intimidate her . |
| 9 | Hole have been right up front with the anger thanks to newly pregnant Mrs Cobain , Courtney Love . |
| 10 | She had been right of course . |
| 11 | We 've both been rather like hermits since … ’ |
| 12 | There were some irreverent proposals to perform the ultimate experiment and try injecting material extracted from Ungar 's brain into his critics — a human trial that I suspect Ungar himself might have been rather in favour of ! |
| 13 | The evidence discussed in this final section of the chapter has been uniformly in favour of the associative account of acquired equivalence and distinctiveness . |
| 14 | Despite differences of emphasis between different unions , union policies have been overwhelmingly in favour of technological change , while at the same time seeking increased involvement in the process of change to " maximise the benefits and minimise the costs " of such changes . |
| 15 | Until 1967 roughly half the Palestinian people had still been somewhere in Palestine . |
| 16 | A warrant for Zhivkov 's arrest had been issued on Jan. 18 , but he was believed to have been effectively under house arrest at one of his 30 former official residences since shortly after his resignation in November 1989 . |
| 17 | It will be noted that the children had already been effectively in care on a voluntary basis for the previous six months . |
| 18 | The acknowledged leader in modern first editions , which have been greatly in vogue for the last two years . |
| 19 | Nothing could have been less in keeping with the architect 's original intentions . |
| 20 | In fact it had been only with difficulty that the seller had managed to get rent from Mr. Fleck who was still in arrears . |
| 21 | It can not have been only in relation to land that £40 had a special significance . |
| 22 | I 've been all over England , Wales and Scotland too — though not Northern Ireland … |
| 23 | He 'd been all over town and had a few vocals left , a few guitar bits , and was rather disenchanted with the studio he was using . |
| 24 | We have been all around Britain to put to them the intimate questions teachers and parents were too afraid to ask . |
| 25 | ‘ Well , if you do , do you think any of them would have signed this form if it had not been all in order and above board ? ’ |
| 26 | In Sweden teachers collected 10 000 slide-rules , which would have been enough for students starting in 1983 and 1984 . |
| 27 | He had started to caress her and had been enough in control to ask questions . |
| 28 | Every day more young people are infected with HIV — often completely unaware they have been personally at risk — and risky behaviour is on the increase again . |
| 29 | Napoleon is believed to have been warmly in favour even though the tunnel was not designed for military purposes . |
| 30 | There had not been much to Clive . |