Example sentences of "[adv] [been] [adv] [prep] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Old Mr Fiddle has not been there for some time , Rose , ’ said Dagmar from the door . |
| 2 | It seems to me that anyone attracted to practising psychology or psychotherapy or psychiatry has not been so without some needs of their own . |
| 3 | He had always been so against any kind of what he called ‘ gobbledygook ’ . |
| 4 | It had probably been there for some time ! |
| 5 | The doctor , who had now been there for some time , and was looking at his watch , had been explaining . |
| 6 | Nothing else has changed ; I have n't been here since that day a week after Clare died , and it had the same muddily washed-out look about it then . |
| 7 | ‘ He has n't been here for some time , ’ Hari answered . |
| 8 | You bozos do n't seem to realise it but if we had n't been there at that Florence Conference , would not be in the leading position it currently holds with the commission to guarantee further funds and to create a positive role for Britain in Europe with the commission to wuk look at the issues that are gon na come up in 1993 . |
| 9 | have n't been there for many years |
| 10 | The couple next door said she had n't been there for several days . |
| 11 | We 'd never been apart from each other for more than two weeks when I was arrested . |