Example sentences of "[verb] been [adv] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All I have ever known of love has been here in this house . |
| 2 | Val Pinder who has been away for some months due to illness achieves a fantastic level of sales and came in fourth . |
| 3 | His role has been rather like that of a stand-up comic warming up the audience for the main event . |
| 4 | Four of the committee members are from developing countries , and the experience of several of the others has been mostly in these countries . |
| 5 | ‘ Since its launch in 1989 , Drayton Asia 's investment performance has been significantly below that of Dragon , ’ the letter stated . |
| 6 | The Christian may be in a church which has been together for several hundred years , and so he knows there is a certain likelihood of it still being together next year ! |
| 7 | Eight key tasks are identified and work has been underway on these for some time . |
| 8 | If this is to happen then there must be far greater participation than there has been hitherto by all members of the school staff in the establishment of general philosophy and purpose of the school . |
| 9 | A landmark on the Waxholme/Withernsea road is the old Black Mill , and has been so for many generations . |
| 10 | It is made from M. spicata , but there are many other mints with various distinct aromas and flavours — garden mint is the most commonly used and has been so for many centuries . |
| 11 | I 'd been away after that before I came to the electricity works here . |
| 12 | He 'd had himself painted and sculptured again and again , and he 'd been there for all the world to see . |
| 13 | He 'd been there for some time . |
| 14 | I mean , you were n't even sure she 'd been there at all . ’ |
| 15 | If the SRs had achieved power , ‘ their actions would have been exactly like those of the Bolshevik Party . ’ |
| 16 | Wiping them might have been enough for most people — but not for somebody who was trying to do card tricks . ’ |
| 17 | Occasionally it is explained that they had already died — and given the still short life-expectancy of the period this must have been so in many cases . |
| 18 | That might have been so in this nation , but it was not the case throughout the empire . |
| 19 | The Labour government 's priority from 1964 onwards was the servicing of the economy in response to demands made on them by capital ; in so far as working-class girls could have contributed to this , it would have been only in those unskilled jobs for which greater or better education was not required . |
| 20 | Well done you and a very , very special thanks to the Princess Royal , without whose leadership it would not have been possibly at all . |
| 21 | The floor of these forests was , at best , only sparsely vegetated and great areas may have been entirely without any living leaves . |
| 22 | I gather there was a defender on the goal line so Strachan could n't have been offside at all . |
| 23 | Pumpido had to make two saves while neither of the Italians need have been there at all . |
| 24 | At the very genesis of all feeling and awareness one thought held sway which should not really have been there at all : that to be grown-up , to be a man , meant losing a great part of me . |
| 25 | The first thing that strikes me is that my aunt — an almost complete stranger as far as I was concerned — should have been there at all , within the family circle where no friend or neighbour was allowed , and thus in a privileged position to make personal remarks of the type which would not have been tolerated from any other quarter . |
| 26 | But you had to remember the circumstances they were there under — they should never have been there at all . |
| 27 | On 30 June Colonel Wilkinson was at his desk catching up on policy matters after having been away for several days visiting units in the Liverpool area and attending an Army Catering Corps Promotion Selection Board held at Exeter . |
| 28 | He 's supposed to have been there at half past nine ! |
| 29 | But , if it had been either of these , how would they get into the Tower , mysteriously ring a tocsin bell and then arrange for Mowbray 's fall ? |
| 30 | Harriet Tremayne , her mother , had been strongly against this , but Tom , her husband , a charming , indolent and indulgent man , had argued , with a certain degree of logic , that ‘ the girl had to do some kind of war work ’ and that it was better for her ‘ to do something she had set her heart on ’ . |