Example sentences of "it [vb -s] been [adv] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has been up to nine or ten pound for |
| 2 | She added that the faun 's condition was good although ‘ it has been outside for 35 years and is a bit green . ’ |
| 3 | I can not take the credit for inventing this — it has been around for many years . |
| 4 | How this name originated I have no idea , but I do know that it has been around for many generations for a jingle about this name has come down from the 19th century and it went : " Old Cribb , Young Cribb and Young Cribbs Son , if it had n't a been for Old Cribb there would n't have been none " . |
| 5 | Bill Wood of Durham called about it , desisted from hurling it in this direction and merely gave the fascinating information that it has been about for 1,500 years and started off in Anglo Saxon as sacleas , meaning ‘ without strife ’ . |
| 6 | It has been more like carnival week in Rio than the death of an iron man . |
| 7 | It has been there for two weeks and can not be released because the 3,500 troops promised by the United Nations to secure food convoys and get them moving have not arrived . |
| 8 | ‘ People say the earth must be sour , but it has been there for eighteen years and still grows plants . |
| 9 | It has been there in one form or another since Anglo-Saxon times , probably the first building being of wood . |
| 10 | Hongkong Bank is inheriting a bank in better shape than it has been in for more than a decade . |
| 11 | ‘ I would think it 's been here for several days , sir . |
| 12 | It 's been here since 1925 , but in September it 'll close . |
| 13 | Although it 's been around since 1985 you could hardly describe it as one of the top-selling DOS word processors . |
| 14 | Getting the old cistern out can sometimes be a problem — particularly if it 's been there for some time . |
| 15 | ‘ I 'm not saying they won because of that , but … people are used to it , it 's been there for 20 years . ’ |
| 16 | it 's been inside for two hours and ca n't get out |
| 17 | " It 's been more like six " |
| 18 | Well if th if there 's somebody whose listening in the Derby area who can help us with a street lamp that 's out and it 's rather important that it get put on , and it 's been out for six weeks now |