Example sentences of "[vb base] been [prep] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 've been through three names already . |
| 2 | Winter 's father said afterwards : ‘ We 've been through 20 months of sheer hell . |
| 3 | You 're alright , you , you 've been for fifteen years |
| 4 | He and his wife , Nellie , live in a Home in an outer city suburb where they 've been for fifteen months . |
| 5 | I 've been to eight countries in the last two weeks . |
| 6 | ‘ I 've been to fifteen funerals of my friends this year . |
| 7 | I bet I 've been to more schools than Australia , I 've been to four schools in Australia |
| 8 | We 've been to one town where many have closed down , and others are struggling to keep their heads above water … |
| 9 | Erm I like doing water colour painting and I 've been on two holidays down in Cornwall and I 've done that and that 's very relaxing erm and it seems , you seem to forget about everything else , and that 's quite good fun er but erm obviously if it rains all your , all your colours get washed away , but that 's good fun . |
| 10 | I 've been in two minds about whether to bother with the ABA this year , but the news that Baroness Thatcher and Margaret Atwood are to share a platform at a Book and Author Breakfast has made my mind up for me . |
| 11 | I mean I 've been in two shops now there 's fifty pound difference like , you know |
| 12 | Furthermore , people vary in their tolerance from day to day , and it is not safe to assume that because you have been to 15,000 feet or so without oxygen before , you will be able to do it again . |
| 13 | " Scores of men are in a worse plight than they have been for thirty-seven years past " , admitted Harry Orbell , " The pawnshops are glutted . |
| 14 | Attempts to test the state subsidy theory of strikes have been of two kinds : studies attempting to show the correlation , if any , between levels of benefits and strike activity over the years ; and studies exploring the views of strikers in relation to benefits and strike activity . |
| 15 | Leeds have been up three days ago . |
| 16 | The pair , both 25 , have been through two days of hell — and team-mates fear the nightmare may have damaged their medal chances . |
| 17 | Is the Prime Minister aware that building employers say that conditions are worse than they have been in 40 years , that car sales are down 20 per cent . |
| 18 | Here they have seen her because they have been within thirty feet of her . |