Example sentences of "[been] [adv] under " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ All the power we could ever have wanted , and it 's been right under my nose for years . ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The youngest of the trio — he was a-twenty-seven-year-old ex-seminarian who had been greatly under the influence of Molloy before going to Africa — began to sing , in a terrible , faltering voice , probably the most unmelodious I ever heard from a Danuese what sounded like the first lines of ‘ O , Mighty Mountain ! ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I 've been down under the sea , you know ! |
| 5 | Catering that had been so under threat in the later seventies suddenly attracted new importance ; indeed , the single Manchester Pullman that looked almost certain to be a casualty of further standardisation in the eighties was joined by a bevy of Pullmans if only Pullman service on HSTs and Mark 3s . |
| 6 | And , as the hairs on head and body are all at different stages of the hair growth cycle , waxing does not always mean that some hair does n't grow back quickly — it may have been just under the skin just waiting to pop out ! |
| 7 | We have been here under many governments since 1971 and will continue to be here under many more , ’ the Salomon spokesman said . |
| 8 | But the movement had in fact been consistently under attack since 1923 when Trotsky devoted a chapter of his Literature and Revolution to a critique of Formalism . |
| 9 | Since 1990 he has been either under house arrest or in jail . |
| 10 | than a woman who 's always been either under her father 's thumb , or brother 's thumb , and then gets passed to yours ? |
| 11 | They should have been safely under lock and key . |
| 12 | What we did was we based our forecast , which I think Mr raised that point , we based our forecast on the admissions that we did at the Department of Social Security and I 'm glad to say that we have been significantly under that level and partly I think because er we 've had people who have genuinely diverted into home care and who 've been able to which is why we 've put the pressure on home care and on the occupational therapy services and partly because erm the , there were some inappropriate admissions I must say that . |