Example sentences of "[verb] been [adv prt] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I can not take the credit for inventing this — it has been around for many years . |
| 2 | How this name originated I have no idea , but I do know that it has been around for many generations for a jingle about this name has come down from the 19th century and it went : " Old Cribb , Young Cribb and Young Cribbs Son , if it had n't a been for Old Cribb there would n't have been none " . |
| 3 | THE problems of keeping walls in mortuary and undertakers ' premises clean and hygienic , while still keeping them attractive for the staff , is one which has been around for many years . |
| 4 | The favourite trick , and this has been around for several years now , is to simply double the horizontal scanning frequency so that a 300 by 300 printer becomes a 300 by 600 . |
| 5 | Version 1 of Rescalc has been around for some years and is today regarded as rather palaeolithic . |
| 6 | Despite the fact that our genus has been around for some four million years , it is only in the past century or so that we have discovered the knack of using radio signals . |
| 7 | On the lighter side , the Cessna 195B has been around for some time , having been auctioned at Duxford in April 1990 and , although remaining in the UK since then , has only just been registered . |
| 8 | Axil 's existing compatibles are the $13,000 HWS-S210 which has been around for some time , the $17,000 HWS-S310 model 3.0 and the $23,500 HWS-S310 model 4.1 which are due next quarter . |
| 9 | The Tetris theme has been around for some years now but shareware authors have taken the original idea to new heights . |
| 10 | The shareware package Formgen has been around for some time now and is a proven system for designing forms . |
| 11 | The shareware package Formgen has been around for some time now and is a proven system for designing forms . |
| 12 | We decided to test a model that has been round for some time on the professional market , and is popular amongst tradesman working on side — the Makita 6012HDW Cordless Driver Drill . |
| 13 | His section has been over for some time . ’ |
| 14 | The building was not built in ninety one , whether there 's any relevance or not , where they 're trying to prove that the building has been up for some time , they 'd say , it 's not , that building was put up this year . |
| 15 | ‘ After all , he is the champion and he has been in with some of the best fighters of the day . |
| 16 | He will fight Jose Ribalta , a 28-year-old Cuban American , who has been in with some of the best heavyweights . |
| 17 | Hongkong Bank is inheriting a bank in better shape than it has been in for more than a decade . |
| 18 | Take the example of Italy , where proportional representation has created permanent instability , with a series of coalition governments that have had to depend on several minor parties whose influence has been out of all proportion to their success in the polls . |
| 19 | Something to do with what he 'd been through in some war . |
| 20 | I gathered that he 'd been around in some pretty exciting — oh , do you mean he might have made that up , too ? |
| 21 | Forty eight and and presumably many of the people who are perhaps seventy drawing pensions , they may not have even paid in thirty years themselves , I mean they may be many of them may not have been around for that period of time . |
| 22 | But the little tousle-headed , dirty , tanned , bold toddler that was me might well have been up to some sort of mischief involving the beast . |
| 23 | Normally , she would have been up for several hours and written a couple of thousand words . |
| 24 | Carrie suddenly said , ‘ Your mum and I were worried about you , Seb , but all my dad could keep saying was , ‘ It 's a good job I managed to reach you when I did , or you 'd have been up at that farmhouse for another week . ’ ’ |
| 25 | ‘ The fuzz would have been on to that straight away . |
| 26 | What about livestock would they have been in at that time of year ? |
| 27 | By now you should have been out on several practice walks and determined your state of fitness . |
| 28 | I must n't have been out of that office half an hour and I 'd , she 'd rung here and left a message to say I could go on it . |
| 29 | Dad normally would n't have been out in such madness , but there he was , this grey-haired man just over five feet tall , going into a phone-box when we had a working telephone in our hall . |
| 30 | In the evenings , after Granpa had come home for supper and the old man had gone off to the pub , I soon became bored just sitting around listening to what my sisters had been up to all day ; so I joined the Whitechapel Boys ' Club . |