Example sentences of "[adv] been [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since their lavish £200,000 wedding 14 months ago , they have rarely been out of the headlines — but for all the wrong reasons . |
| 2 | After so many attempts , that day could not have been more rewarding , and I 've since been back at its summit twice . |
| 3 | The new Landrat of Gunzenhausen , a former Franconian bastion of National Socialism , wrote in his first monthly report after the end of the Third Reich , in August 1945 : ‘ Although the war has only been over for a few months , National Socialism is hardly ever spoken about , and when at all , only in a negative sense . |
| 4 | Another argument is that advertising has only been around for a while , so how can that be the reason for all our hang-ups , but that 's not true either . |
| 5 | How do you know this is love , your prose side whispers like a sceptical lawyer , it 's only been around for a few weeks , a few months . |
| 6 | It may seem as if it has been with us forever , but the ubiquitous American Express chargecard has , in fact , only been around for 35 years . |
| 7 | The Cobra had only been around since 1962 , but the Ace , on which it was based , dated back to 1953 , when it had been launched at Earls Court . |
| 8 | Oh do n't it 's only been on for about er , the last half an hour it 's not it 's a cross a crucifix is got bigger on it . |
| 9 | featured the last er three years some of the other companies have only been here since last year and the year before so I mean we 're a national tour operator |
| 10 | He 's only been up since quarter to three |
| 11 | But he had only been away for three days . |
| 12 | In fact he had only been away from the town for one period of six years when he was at university in Aberdeen . |
| 13 | I tried to recall friends ' telephone numbers as an exercise , but astonishingly , though I had only been away from home for fifteen days , could only manage my own , my sister 's and my mother-in-law 's . |
| 14 | Emily had only been away from home twice , and each time she had been very unhappy . |
| 15 | I mean there were only been about at the most ten who were suffering from burns . |
| 16 | ‘ But I 've only been down to the banister to pick up my coat . ’ |
| 17 | Having worked for a number of years now in community health services , previously erm in Yorkshire , in fact I 've only been down in Oxford about four or five months , I 've learnt how important it is in fact to make good working contacts with members and officers of other organizations , and particularly of local authority organizations . |
| 18 | A clergyman who was in Manchester Cathedral when the second device went off said : ‘ I had only been there for a matter of seconds when I heard an almighty crump . |
| 19 | He 's a new environment officer , he 's only been there for a month or something . |
| 20 | Perhaps not as bad as Buff , because the animal had only been there for a second or two and I had told them it was a robot . |
| 21 | I 've only been back on the case , in cosmic terms , about two-and-a-half minutes . |
| 22 | He had only been back for a few hours when company orders were posted showing that Colonel Hamilton wished to see Lance-Corporal Trumper at eleven hundred hours the following morning . |
| 23 | This team have only been together for less than a year and it is getting better all the time . |
| 24 | He had only been out with on other girl in his life . |
| 25 | ‘ I do n't dislike it , but I 've only been out with Charles about three times … ’ |
| 26 | Auntie Mavis has only been out for five to ten minutes twice cos of her knee . |
| 27 | It broke Perdita 's heart that Ricky , who 'd only been out of top-class polo for three years , was totally ignored . |
| 28 | I 've only been out of prison three months . |
| 29 | ‘ Lenny 's only been out of the jug five , maybe six weeks , ’ said Lloyd . |
| 30 | Since 1969 , Ron and Reggie Kray have only been out of prison once . |