Example sentences of "[vb past] [be] [adv prt] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Young H from Wallasey was a pretty major exception to this rule — he did the drop in of doom off the extension to flat bottom hipper , slashed about did mass ollies onto the extension , laybacks , wore an agnostic Front tee , and generally skated like he 'd been around since the sevs and was a dwarf just pretending to be under 16 . |
| 2 | They were called Jem and Eric ; he recognized them ; they 'd been around since the filming started . |
| 3 | I wish I 'd been around when the Titanic |
| 4 | ‘ If you 'd been around where you should have been , then possibly Ace would n't have had to take such instant action to avoid Dara ! ’ |
| 5 | Well they came over here then and they 'd been up and they come back with Gillian and all that and they stayed . |
| 6 | But tonight before , well on Saturday before we came up like he 'd been back and to this after , well this morning really and I , he 'd disappeared had n't he ? |
| 7 | ‘ In 1980 I was 19 and just coming to the end of The Skids , which I 'd been in since I was 15 . |
| 8 | He looked better , but he 'd been in and out of his wits so many times in the past weeks there was no knowing . |
| 9 | It appeared that for two years after the wrist-slashing incident she 'd been in and out of mental hospital . |
| 10 | I 'd been in and out of hospitals , where my veins had been pumped full of glucose because I 'd refused to eat . |
| 11 | I 'd been in and the east fields at . |
| 12 | but erm then became , we got round to the erm question of getting the children into similar schools to the ones that they 'd been in and erm I came into this , in fact I came into all sorts of things erm well by accident then I suppose anyway not for any other reason but erm Mr erm who was the Secretary for Education , he had a Personal Assistant a chap named erm erm he was a very likeable chap erm and er a rather ec bit of an eccentric really because erm he 'd been erm , he 'd trained as a doctor and erm he 'd left the course before completing it . |
| 13 | I 'd been out and I was out of it sitting in this shop doorway having this conversation with myself . |
| 14 | Anyway you 'd been out and bought one of those m packets of m cake mix . |
| 15 | They 'd been out and er I do n't know who they 'd been with like but he must of had a bit to drink . |
| 16 | She had been up and about for over an hour , moving slowly about her caravan , straightening the covers on the bunk , shaking the rag rug and even giving the brass on her beloved stove an early rub with metal polish . |
| 17 | Only 30 people were injured and the resultant fires did n't last for long , so speculation about how many injuries or how much damage there would have been if people had been up and about is pointless . |
| 18 | Both boys had been up and out by six-thirty . |
| 19 | Now i if his computer er had been up and running , erm you know I might be able to design something . |
| 20 | His obvious hunger made her wonder how long he had been up and about . |
| 21 | She had been up until close to three the previous night , putting the finishing touches to the preparations for this evening 's grand dinner . |
| 22 | By 1953 , the refusal that such dressiness displayed had spread to a hitherto unexpected and unexplained location : the working-class boys and girls who , congregating around various London centres , had assumed what had been up until a couple of years previously a homosexual style , the Edwardian Look . |
| 23 | She had been up until dawn , wearing gold Yves Saint Laurent couture at the 50th anniversary dinner-dance benefit for the American Ballet Theatre . |
| 24 | The snow ploughs had been through and so we were able to drive to the starting point on the northerly shore of Loch Torridon . |
| 25 | Connelly did n't know how long the rings of the electric cooker had been on but one of them was almost white-hot . |
| 26 | And , backing this melodic chorus , we were aware of another noise — as we had been on and off throughout the day — the all-pervasive hum of the power station transformers . |
| 27 | The Election had been on and off for weeks now . |
| 28 | ( The term ‘ agenda-setting ’ was popularized by McCombs and Shaw , 1972 ; Shaw and McCombs , 1977 ; though the idea had been around since at least Lazarsfeld , Berelson , and Gaudet , 1944 . |
| 29 | It would be hard saying goodbye to the servants , some of whom had been around since she was born , but it was something she would have to do , she simply had no choice . |
| 30 | Oh yes , if Greg had been around when the storm broke he 'd have faced ruin — and probably gone to gaol into the bargain . |