Example sentences of "[been] [adv prt] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Down have you been down Parrots and Nash recently ? |
| 2 | He also noted that sales in the first two months of the year are ahead of company budgets , but this failed to help the shares , which closed 30p lower at 143p , having been down 38p at one stage . |
| 3 | Rory had been down home in the country all day long , working on some bad debt accounts with Tom Holdfast , so he and Mallachy had taken a couple in the Wellington Park to wash away the nasty taste of commerce . |
| 4 | ‘ Have n't seen YOU either , Bill … been down south , looking for work . ’ |
| 5 | You have n't been down drains or anything like that of late ? |
| 6 | So have you been up Walthamstow then ? |
| 7 | Have you been up Walthamstow ? |
| 8 | ‘ I have n't been up top for some time , ’ he said . |
| 9 | The Franks have been up mountains and down valleys , floated around idyllic lakes and cruised through the staggeringly beautiful ( see The Prisoner -meets-Brothers Grimm ) town of Salzburg , they 've even mimed in a restaurant hall which provides the definitive ‘ Sound Of Music Dinner Show ’ , during which tourists can dine on ‘ cream-coloured ponies ’ . |
| 10 | I said where did you get the tarmac from ? , been up London about , on his way to London by about half past four he said well there 's , there 's , three tarmac places , basically he people like that |
| 11 | ‘ I 've been up ages . ’ |
| 12 | When , when I see he come back I thought never , he ai n't been up Kingswood already , but you have n't been up Kingswood . |
| 13 | When , when I see he come back I thought never , he ai n't been up Kingswood already , but you have n't been up Kingswood . |
| 14 | Agreed , the weekend trade is down but residential courses have been up 10% and day courses up 50% this year . |
| 15 | But it 's been back loads o |
| 16 | And we decided to get lots of copies for all our friends that we have n't seen for a long long time so I asked if they could do them for me but I thought they would be back by now , well they should of been back ages ago actually ! |
| 17 | At one time he , he lived at , they lived at but er er she was a widow and she was ninety but she was very good to us and , but we had er , we had apartments but there was a lock on both sides of the door , you know what I mean , we were quite self-contained and we had er er a narrow stairs and because of the war I could n't , you could n't er , I used to scrub the stairs down because you could n't buy carpet in those days , you see because of the war and to the shortage of stuff and so I used to keep those stairs nice and , we had a , a , we went , as we went up these stairs erm it , I suppose originally , you see , it would have been back stairs for the servants , you see , in the hall and this old lady used to go in and if ever she had the doctor she used to ask me if I would go and sit with her and hold her hand while the doctor came , you see . |
| 18 | While we had been out Mrs Taylor had placed the paper in position . |
| 19 | Strachan had been out weeks , and yet came back and lasted 90 mins . |
| 20 | But then that funny copper , Malpass , had known I 'd been out front on Sunday . |
| 21 | One grandmother , who had been out tot he Australian Gold Rush and back , was inseparable from her pet chaffinch and her nightly glass of porter . |
| 22 | and she said it 's on Saturday night so I 'm sor , you know , I 'm sorry it 's short notice and erm she said I 'll ring Marie and find out , I said well you know ring her but I said I ca n't make any promises I said , I know mum should have been out Friday night and I do n't know what else she 's got on |
| 23 | I never went out Sunday , I have n't been out Tuesday I just thought you know good still find the money for it still it 's amazing how you do |