Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] [adv] be [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Blue eyeshadow , much reviled for the past five years , is back at Chanel , Lancôme and Rubinstein and has never been out at Lauder — Mrs Lauder is a firm believer in the power of blue . |
| 2 | She was eighteen and had never been out of England , yet she unhesitatingly set off for a remote and savage country in Africa . |
| 3 | ‘ You must understand I left Spain before my tenth birthday and have never been back since . |
| 4 | ‘ They follow on from the Beatnik look and have actually been around since the Sixties , ’ a spokesman for the Natural Shoe Store in Covent Garden says . |
| 5 | ‘ I s'ppose so , but do n't be back late , ’ she said grudgingly . |
| 6 | I was allowed up to chatter with the older men about the good old days on Le Manche , when my grandfather had not only held serious philosophical and religious conversation with les pecheures over his loud hailer , but had also been in to Boulogne harbour as thanksgiving for a market or two in Hastings at needy times . |
| 7 | They have put yellow marks round some of the holes but have n't been back to do them yet . |