Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [been] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Brittany had long since been in some way subject to Normandy . |
| 2 | Phone in one hand , and sandwich in the other , that 's Linda , but she tells me she 's a good cook , and erm , she 's also told me there 's only , she 's only ever been with one guy in her life , |
| 3 | This account has so far been in partial equilibrium terms . |
| 4 | I got on the vehicle but the driver had not long been in fourth gear when I came to my senses . |
| 5 | But it has not always been like this . |
| 6 | So I would think it 's just always been at that that site . |
| 7 | A lot of the women whose benefit was cut off were back on our books again a few weeks later — which suggested either that their relationships had not really been like that of husband and wife , or that our intrusion had broken up what might have become a more lasting union . |
| 8 | At the age of fourteen he was apprenticed for seven years to John Braithwaite [ q.v. ] , an eminent locomotive and railway engineer , and while in his service he invented in 1837 the detonating railway fog-signal which was first tried on the Croydon line and has ever since been in universal use as a very valuable safety measure . |
| 9 | They had hardly ever been in this house belonging to Nicholas , and never since it received its new mistress . |
| 10 | She had n't always been like that — at least , not when I first knew her . |
| 11 | I like boats even though I have n't even been on one . |
| 12 | Erm , I 'm I 'm never sure about Bishops and Archbishops , erm I remember Archbishop Runcie once commenting about er , an activity that took place at the installation of a Bishop and it 's , I gather , I mean I 've , I have n't actually been to one , but if you 're Bishop or an Archbishop when they act to the triumph and act of installation took place there were you 'll find that the person was surrounded by Bishops and they were all sort of looking in on this er , this body that was gon na be installed and somebody once asked what are they doing ? |
| 13 | And it occurred to him that it had almost always been like that : he the serious and thoughtful one , and the one he loved mostly careless and unconcerned . |
| 14 | .. Try it out when you leave here , try it out in the meetings and the presentations that you have to make I encourage you to do that , to try it out in your day to day working and for those people who have either already been on this course or are coming on this course after you that you meet encourage them to do the same , because there 's nothing like encouragement and feedback from each other to be able to use these new ideas . |
| 15 | Are you implying that it 's not very long been in this country ? |
| 16 | The attitude of outside well-wishers has too often been like that of a left-wing friend of mine who asked in the early days of the Grunwick strike ‘ Who is doing the organising there ? ’ — as though the workers were just so much raw material waiting to be organised . |
| 17 | He talked about the town , how he had never before been to this part of the country , how he had never before been to this part of the country , how one day soon he must try to get out on the moor . |
| 18 | He talked about the town , how he had never before been to this part of the country , how he had never before been to this part of the country , how one day soon he must try to get out on the moor . |
| 19 | She had seen none of this glamorous life ; she had seldom even been to smart restaurants , let alone banquets and star-studded receptions . |