Example sentences of "[be] [adv prt] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He remarked however that there was little to choose between kitchen and living-room in respect of air , since the oven had been on since dawn . |
| 2 | Cos they 've been on about people |
| 3 | not been on for ages . |
| 4 | Well of course it 's not on , it has n't been on for weeks . |
| 5 | PET ‘ HOTEL HATES ’ ( THE FREQUENT ONES ) * narrow stairs and no lifts * low shower pressure * telephone kiosks built for left-handed midgets * only one plug , down on the floor under the bed and 5AMP * hairdryers on 1m fixed lead from the floor socket 3m away from wall mirror facing opposite direction * just two 40 watt lamps to read and work by * toilet rolls positioned for contortionists only * room service that brings each course separately throughout Dallas * radiators that have n't been on for years * radiators that wo n't go off * basins that take half an hour to empty after you 've cleaned your teeth and you want to shave * stoppers that hang under the cold water tap but do n't reach the drain * stoppers that have no chain so you wallow in the dirty water to find them * toilets where you can sit down or close the door but not both |
| 6 | I 've been on to Di this long time and have one like that , then you can and put down so you can have more room , you know , when you put it out . |
| 7 | ‘ I hear the English faculty has been on to Humphrey already , ’ he volunteered . |
| 8 | ‘ I 've just been on to Mallachy . |
| 9 | ‘ If Devlin is as smart as I think he is , Jack , he 's been on to Frear from the start . |
| 10 | Well I , I 've been on to world wom women 's committee and they assure me that they , the hospital says these tests should come through in a week , at the most three week 's , but you can phone them , so that certainly has improved , there does n't seem to be a back log . |
| 11 | Fraser said wearily , ‘ Have you been on to Dublin ? ’ |
| 12 | He 's just been on to Maureen , got a couple of orders bearings and an Anglia contact . |
| 13 | I have been on at Desmond about it , as a matter of fact , which I suppose is what she wanted . |
| 14 | But for that he would have got his sword out of its scabbard , and the fight they could not afford would have been on in earnest . |
| 15 | David Bates 's concisely bold figure studies Marsden Heartly often seems to haunt his work are on at Cowles and Susan Rothenberg 's nervous-making fractured figurations are at Sperone Westwater ( both shows from 2–30 May ) . |
| 16 | Recent abstractions by Cora Cohen are at McCoy until 20 March and , until the same date , the ever brighter , ever quirkier biomorphisms of Carroll Dunham are on at Sonnabend . |
| 17 | New black-and-white prints by him are on at Arthur Roger until the 24th . |
| 18 | Landscape , of course , is his forte and a show of recent works in this department ( oil paintings and graphics ) are on at Marlborough starting 6 January and continuing until the end of the month . |
| 19 | Francois Morellet is showing ‘ Relache ’ , a series of recent works whose title pays homage to Picabia , at Liliane and Michel Durand-Dessert ( 16 January to 20 February ) while Vera Rohm 's ‘ Foto-tele ’ , monumental sculptures , are on at Nikki Diana Marquadt until the middle of January , together with large panels by Horst Haack , taken from pages of one of his albums , covered with sketches , quotations , poems and newspaper cuttings . |
| 20 | Meanwhile Davies has been busy with the camera and his latest 16 x 20 inch black-and-white prints of sharply-shadowed New York store fronts are on at Sonnabend through to the end of the month . |
| 21 | Sculpture by Peter Briggs and drawings and watercolours by Martin Barré are on until mid-April at Barbier-Beltz . |
| 22 | I 've actually been down to Norfolk this weekend so |
| 23 | She 's been down to Birmingham to see our kid . |
| 24 | Recently , however , they have been down to Lord Mayor Treloar College where they are helping to buy TNS 's , a battery powered device which produces small low powered electric shock — something like pins and needles — designed to ease muscle pain for people with disabilities such as spina bifida and muscular dystrophy . |
| 25 | no , I forgot well see I forgotten and I 'd been down to Boots an all I , aunty Mary had them once , one time and said |
| 26 | I know Paul 's been down to Percy Saint John 's and they are quite far ahead believe it or not they have got separate sheets for most subjects and we 'll able to do that English at pri Spring Gardens is good , so it maths because that was actually dealt with by erm Barbara |
| 27 | Neville , fresh in from points east , had just been down to Carnaby Street and looked the very model of the new generation . |
| 28 | ‘ Anyhow , Grandfather had been down to John Adrich 's at the bottom of the hill and he 'd bought himself a grin'stone for sharpening tools . |
| 29 | He had seen Frank 's mutilated back when they had both been down for screening , and had been deeply shocked . |
| 30 | When Conchis had said that he 'd been down on Moutsa the week before , it had been this one fact , the sweet womanish perfume , that had puzzled me . |