Example sentences of "been [adv] [adv] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Taking one thing with another : body temperature , ambient temperature , the fact that Saturn is in the ascendant and it 's Sunday , I 'd say he 's been dead up to eighteen hours , probably not less than fourteen , that puts it between nine and one last night . |
| 2 | So Anglam had been effectively entirely in American hands : they sent the trainees probably nominated the lecturers and when the time came could quietly pull out pleading changes in the American scene which the British directors could n't challenge . |
| 3 | Huge unemployment resulted and East Europeans began to wonder if they had not been better off in economic isolation — though there was no going back on political reform . |
| 4 | I 've , I 've I 've often thought I would never vote Tory but , I mean , I 've been better off in some ways in that I was able to buy my council house . |
| 5 | They do n't seem to have been much together in recent months , I thought perhaps the friendship had petered out . |
| 6 | A small but increasing number of commentators would like to stop or turn back the clock and , in the absence of hard data , the debate has been perhaps more about political models of social care than about what works in practice . |
| 7 | We 've been together now for 18 years and it do n't seem a day too long , but I can see there does come a time when it 's good for mother and child to view one another from a distance . |
| 8 | But we have been together now for 12 matches on tour , as well as facing New Zealand and world champions Australia . |
| 9 | We 've been together now for 40 years and … |
| 10 | THEY 'VE been together now for 25 years … and it do n't seem a day too much . |
| 11 | She did n't answer , for the simple reason that she could n't think of anything to say because the smile he had given her had been so totally unlike any other he had turned in her direction , so warm , and devastating , crinkling his eyes … |
| 12 | ‘ You 've been up there for two days . |
| 13 | After coaxing him for 20 minutes , one officer grabbed the man — only to discover he had been bleeding heavily from deep cuts to his wrist and arms . |
| 14 | Norfolk , for example , lost 70 per cent of its rail network during the 1960s , but some closures had come about even before the 1963 Beeching Report , having been underway ever since postwar nationalization of the railways ( Moseley 1979a ) . |
| 15 | Street , and the bottom lamp has been out now for six weeks . |
| 16 | She 's been out now for twenty minutes |
| 17 | Mm , I 've been here just on four years now . |
| 18 | They know me and Paul and Steve 'cos we 've been around here in this bit of the London Road for three seasons now and they know that we would n't let them down . ’ |
| 19 | Well the estate agent er area has been around now for twenty years so they 're rather used to us in that . |
| 20 | She has also proved more willing to allocate political honours to party workers than was Mr Heath who had been particularly niggardly in this regard . |
| 21 | Also , the way we are told that the plan was connected with Swegen 's first visit to Essex suggests that he had been there again since this occasion and the drawing up of the confirmation . |
| 22 | And if Donal had been there right at that moment she thought she might have thumped him . |
| 23 | The last matter relates to some possible supposed uncertainty about the plaintiff 's further education at school , as I have already noted it is expected that the plaintiff will remain at school until he is nineteen , he has been there now for three years . |
| 24 | ‘ Oh no , there 's been quite enough of this nonsense . |
| 25 | When at his best , which has been quite often in recent years , Woosnam is a wonderful player to watch , with the sort of swing that is a model for any youngster . |
| 26 | RIDING on horseback , with only your hairdo to conceal your parts , must have been hard enough in 11th Century Coventry . |
| 27 | I was a serving naval officer , whose experience had been almost entirely in small ships and submarines where I had learnt some of the problems of leadership of compact teams , for whom the aim was painfully apparent : sink , or be sunk . |
| 28 | Though I must have been around just at that time , I think . |
| 29 | The surprise choice for the New Zealand tour was Michael Bradley , a scrum-half who has been completely out of international reckoning over the past few seasons . |
| 30 | Tailors in 1814 were very much on a level in terms of real wages with 1795 , but in the intervening years had been significantly down on that level in eight years , and very seriously below it in 1800 and 1801 when their weekly wage would buy only half the quantity of bread it had purchased from 1777 to 1795 . |