Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv] been [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We 've all been in trouble with the police and all that malarkey , but that 's all part of growing up . |
| 2 | The England midfielder added : ‘ I 've only been with Leeds for a few days but that 's long enough to know I 've made the right decision coming here . ’ |
| 3 | It 's pretty boring here and I 've only been at Auntie Jane 's just over a day . |
| 4 | I 've only been to Devon and Cornwall , you ca n't really call |
| 5 | So you 've only been in Harlow since nineteen sixty three ? |
| 6 | I 've only been in Dick 's flat once and the most interesting thing I 've gleaned about him is that he never uses washing-up liquid and he has a rather interesting pile of yellowing press cuttings sitting on a shelf . |
| 7 | This was very common in the past and I 'm sure many shop stewards here who 've dealt with redundancies in the past , know about the poor members who get quite a nice lump sum redundancy , but in fact , they 've only been in pension schemes a short while , so they ca n't provide for themselves in old age , once they 've spent the redundancy money . |
| 8 | In fact I 've scarcely been to bed before one o'clock any night since I first realized he was dyslexic . |
| 9 | ‘ I think it does have something to do with drugs , because if you look at all those Spiral Tribe people who 've just been on E for so long , y'know ? |
| 10 | No , we 've just been to B and M Bargains , Lyndsey said , oh God ! |
| 11 | We 've just been to Nursery . |
| 12 | I 'VE just been to court for the first time in my life at 74 , because my local council said I owed them £63 for my wife 's poll tax during 1991–92 . |
| 13 | Yeah , okay , I 've just been to Asda so kids are on the way to put the bits of shopping in the van , alright , cos I got 'em some cereal and some bread and I 'll bring up the toaster , they can take the toaster with 'em for a while and oh there is , is there ? |
| 14 | Bet it 's all cos Nick is n't down there or something , no you 've just been with Nick . |
| 15 | ‘ I 've just been with Michael Stein in Immigration . |
| 16 | We 've just been in discussions with the manufacturers and we actually but we 're hoping to get a discount on that in the near future so we 're hoping the cost of that will come down . |
| 17 | I 've already been to Colin , placed my order , given him a deposit — and nothing 's happening . |
| 18 | ‘ I 've already been in touch with the Secretary-General . |
| 19 | Personally I 've always been into style and clothes though . |
| 20 | When I 've been back home you 've always been at school . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ I 've always been around dope . |
| 22 | Now when interest charges fall , the person who is buying the house benefits from the reduction in interest charges , but the person who is renting a house in local authority and then in this case nobody , nobody else in Harlow to rent it from , is faced with , not with a decreased monthly rental , but with an ever increasing one because as more and more Council houses are sold the cost of maintaining that there , the superstructure of the town , the cost of maintaining Council houses goes on increasing and so the burden is laid on the tenants and the tenant can find , will find himself that pound for pound increasing his rent while the house owner is decreasing his mortgage charges and at the end of the day the tenant is paying increased rent , increased rate and with nothing to show for it , erm , I 've always been in favour of a sale , of , of property er owner occupiers , but not at the expense of the people who can not afford to be owner occupiers , ah , to my mind , the present housing system is designed to maintain the existing class structure because even with the large discounts that one gets and nobody 's ever yet convinced me that why you should get a discount because you buy a Council house , but if you buy one privately owned you ca n't get a discount and it , there 's , this , this is so utter nonsense , but it is throwing a much heavier burden every time a house is sold on the remaining houses which are for rent , and so you that , although the idea is to make it a classless this society with more and more people owning their own properties the mo the mere fact that the majority of people in the town can not afford to buy even the reduced priced Council house , is an example that the , the system , the class system a division by income still exists . |
| 23 | I 've always been in trouble … |
| 24 | ‘ As I told you last night , this is the only time I 've ever been to Venice . ’ |
| 25 | I do n't know whether you 've ever been to Russia , Mr Millet , I have . |
| 26 | Rebel shareholders want to wrest control from a handful of family dynasties who 've traditionally been in charge . |
| 27 | We 've been to Lords and we 've also been to Wembley , we 've been to Twickenham and we 've also been to Wimbledon . |
| 28 | We 've been to Lords and we 've also been to Wembley , we 've been to Twickenham and we 've also been to Wimbledon . |
| 29 | basically so am I , I 've got to write a news in the next few days so I 'll see in early February tell him about the ideas , I 've also been in touch with another lobbying firm , I say been in touch but it 's quite easy because |
| 30 | I 've even been past Grey House twice to see if by any chance your car was there , to see if you 'd come back and not let me know . |