Example sentences of "[adv] it [verb] been [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't know how long it 's been on the bed , but it 's far too damp to sleep in . |
| 2 | Then he remembered ; appropriately enough it had been at the party when Slater had first introduced Graham and Sara to each other . |
| 3 | In terms of actual support , I think for me personally it 's been within a gay men 's group . |
| 4 | So it has been with other countries of immigration — the immigrants embraced a new nationality with , if the nationalist fictions are to be believed , unseemly eagerness . |
| 5 | So it has been for centuries , yet the multi-petalled bloom of modern times , epitomized by the modern Hybrid Tea rose ( or , as it is abbreviated , H.T. ) and probably most people 's mental image of all that a rose is and should be , is a product of modern hybridizing and cross-breeding that did not exist even as recently as medieval times . |
| 6 | Erm this has been to Great Parndon Committee so it 's been through the neighbourhoods er , community cycle and there has been an exhibition following that committee on Three Hills , which was very well attended by by tenants and residents and main feelings coming out of that was that erm the residents were keen for this to happen , certainly wanted something to happen erm er , on the estate particularly demolition of the four empty blocks . |
| 7 | So it 's been in the garage for years ? |
| 8 | And all the time Nisodemus was reminding people how much better it had been in the Store . |
| 9 | Nevertheless it had been at Bray 's Buildings , stench or no stench , squeals of slaughtered beasts or no squeals , that one of the most fascinating of Benjamin 's children had entered the world . |
| 10 | He had waited for her in the forests that fringed Tara , his mind filled with light and hope , his body more fiercely aware than ever it had been in his entire life . |
| 11 | Until now it had been outside her experience … |
| 12 | Well it 's been on er consumer selling |
| 13 | He thought back to how it had been for him last winter . |
| 14 | It was how it had been for the past two weeks and the young woman tried to ignore her protesting muscles and her aching back as she stared into the hearth and watched the tiny flames flickering in and out of the carefully banked-up grate . |
| 15 | He paused and gave her an intense look that revealed a little of how it had been for him . |
| 16 | He continued on across the road and down by the side of the church , heading south towards Pimlico , trying to imagine how it had been on that September day all those years ago . |
| 17 | Since Miss Broome 's parents were both dead , it could never be known how it had been in life . |
| 18 | That is how it has been in the past , we have never been friends , and perhaps it has been altogether my fault . |
| 19 | It 's taken you too long to come to terms with Mark 's death — Anne told me a little of how it 's been with you , the way you 've fought the grief and sorrow . ’ |
| 20 | then that and he just bring me pack of cards you know er but er that 's how it 's been for a while you know if I thought well being a sh that that 's now we 've done it it 's a pity we 've not got , mind you I mean it can go potty again in a few years . |
| 21 | Earlier it had been on view at 66 Portland Place , and it will shortly complete its run in Folkestone . |
| 22 | Maybe it had been like worship then , worship that begins in love and dovetails neatly into hate . |
| 23 | There was also what was to become a recurrent feature of Gilkes 's reports — as indeed it had been for a half a century already — regret at the parents ' lack of faith or courage , which resulted in boys leaving early and not going on to University . |
| 24 | Carrie knew how hard it had been for her father , who had spent almost thirty-seven years as a horsekeeper for Galloway , to look for other employment . |
| 25 | So far as is known it had never been loaned for exhibition , it had never passed through an auction room and those few who had been fortunate enough to see it had done so at the private house in Oxford where it had been in the possession of the same family for many years . |
| 26 | It is actively seeking to extend its network : currently it has been in discussion with firms in Austria , Greece , Italy , Spain and South Africa . |
| 27 | Almost certainly it had been on camera-reconnaissance , photographing the British reserves being rushed up . |